Do you think you are good enough to manage a Paintball team?

Paintball Manager can help you figure out if you are made of the right stuff.

Paintball manager is a web based management simulator, similar to that of Football Manager series where you, the user, take control of everything involving your team.

Created by the Finnish  Markus, or makush as he is known online, the game offers the user a view of the other side of paintball. Giving the player the ability to manage their own club however they see fit.

Features such as controlling where the club’s cash flow goes can greatly increase your fan club, or train your players into killing machines that win tournaments in their spare time, give you complete power over the fate of your newly formed club. Recruiting “young guns”, players from your own country who you have scouted to be superstars if nurtured by the right coach is a good way to secure the clubs future for example.

But possibly the best feature of the whole game is that you can set the tactics of what your team do in games, in every field type, and using every player in your arsenal. You set where the go, when they go there, how they get there and what they do while going there. This involves setting way points for their players, creating lanes and also deciding on how their player should act, whether it be aggressively or defensively.

 The interface is easy to follow, as shown above, provided you take the time to understand it. Using the same view of the field, you can watch your matches, in 3D, take place in real time as your small red dots take out the other teams small green dots. The 3D feature is really nice. It is one of the only online games that offered something like that.

Other tasks in game, although they're not required to be done by the user are things like your teams finances, making sure you don't go bankrupt is pretty obvious but it can easily be done if you go off and blow $20,000 on your arena, stupidly providing 1000 seats for your 400 fans that turn up to your games. You can put money into your advertising campaign to try gain some more fans, the youth camp to try increase the chances of having a good youth player come through into your first team, basically deciding everything to do with your team and allowing you to bring it up through the ranks.

The most enjoyable feature of the game for me is playing challenges against your friends, there is nothing more enjoyable than setting out a few games against your friends in a fight for bragging rights then fixing and refining your tactics in the hope you can come back in the next game or hammer them some more! So, register and invite your friends to play some Paintball!!