In today's battlefield most conflicts are in urban areas. You do have your Afghan battles, Iraqi push and a few large open terrain firefights but you don't really see the WW2 all out Rommel assault. Fighting from house to house is dirty and very up close and personal. In most cases you will see your target make a face when hit (paintballs do hurt when fired close). A lot of today's paintball fields have an urban type field or zone (and sometimes games even take place on military MOUT sites), so here are some tips to keep you in the fight.
 

• 1.Attack one building at a time. Suppress other buildings but concentrate on taking out one building at a time.
• 2.You will need 2 units to be effective. ASSAULT UNIT and SUPPORT UNIT.
• The support will cover the assaulting unit and saturate the target with any means necessary. The assault force will storm the target building
• 3.The support unit engages other buildings and targets as needed. Use paint launchers to take out the buildings! Nothing clears out a building like a well placed rocket.
• 4.The assault element moves to the target building on a covered route(use smoke).DO NOT run in a diagonal route across the street. Make a straight line to cross the street.

• A. Do not hug the walls going down the routes. Rounds bounce of hard surfaces (except in paintball). Stay about 3 feet away but close enough to use it if you must.
• B. If you can assault a building from the top then do so because the lower floor is usually the enemies strongest point. In most paintball fields this isn't possible or allowed.
• C. Throw a grenade into building or room, then go in and clear it. A well placed grenade can solve any problem. When entering a room the first man enters low(sweeping room) and takes a watching position to cover whole room. The others go in and clear room to room doing same sequence.
• D. Prep the building for defense or stronghold. This means clearing avenues for fire, Blocking and mining routes of approach and fortifying weak structures.
• E. Get ready to do it all over again.

• 1. Its easier to fight downstairs.
• 2. Do not silhouette yourself climbing around stuff.
• 3. Do not stand right in a window firing out of it. You will be seen and target by who knows what. Keep 2-3 feet away from the window.
• 4. Block entryways into buildings. On some fields they will let you move things around. Grab a huge fallen tree and drag it up to a door entry. You can block them from storming the building easily. GET PERMISSION FIRST!
• 5. Avoid doors and windows while moving from location to location in an urban environment.
• 6. Move in one rush when running men across urban roads. This is different when patrolling in enemy territory. When in the bush you cross roads and paths one at a time and very carefully but quickly.
• 7.Put cloth over windows to keep soldiers hidden.

Use smoke when ever possible. Most fields only allow cool burning smoke so take the time to find them if you want to use them. ALSO if you do get your hands on military issued smoke canisters, DO NOT pick them up once lit. They will burn your hand so badly you will be messed up and unable to play. I have had one burn my glove to the cannister and go through the glove and burned leather into my skin. That all happened in the time it took to pick it up(after lit)and throw it farther away. It almost stayed attached to the glove.