Dye M2 Paintball Marker Review

30/09/2015

We were lucky enough to be one of the first in Europe to get our hands on the brand new Dye Precision marker, the M2.  Here we have done a review video and explained the strengths and weaknesses of the M2.  We hope you enjoy:

Mayhem Militia does Paintfest

30/07/2015

Paintfest 2015

Paintfest is an unbelievable paintball festival held at NPF Bassetts Pole paintball site in Birmingham, and ran by a huge team of guys and girls including the legend that is Ged Green (Angel Sports, WDP, inventor of Hyper Ball, etc etc...!), Kerry Mayo, Stuart Mayo and a whole host of dedicated team members.

The Mayhem Militia always has a strong following for Paintfest, and this year was no different with around the 50 players mark in attendance.  We drove up in various convoys and arrived at different times, and it's an easy 2-3 hour drive from London depending on the traffic.  When we first arrived at the site the first thing that hit me was the sheer scale of the place, and how the camping layout had been changed to make one giant camping area.  Here's an aerial photo, credit to Willie McPhelim from the Scottish Warriors paintball team for the awesome photo:

This drone picture doesn't even show the whole campsite, which I think is unbelievable! 

So we rocked up on the Friday around 3pm, set up camp, have a few beers ;-) and then went to book in and have a wander around the staging area.

We were booked in super quick by the lovely Nikki and the team, and then went into the HUGE trade area.  Everyone in paintball seemed to be there:

• BZ Paintball (unbelievable stand, they literally bring a whole shop with them!)
• LIPS
• Just Paintball
• MAGFEDPB UK
• Warped
• NPF
• Enola Gaye
• MAXS
• DROM

I think I got everyone on that list, sorry if I missed anyone!  I should also mention the unbelievable food vendors, I ate from the pizza stand and the Mexican and both were excellent.  I look forward to eating there again next year!

Also the major companies all had techs present which is always great to see, so well done Tippmann, Dye, Planet, Smart Parts and I think Tiny from Magfed PB was single handily teching anything magfed related that came his way so a great showing from these guys.

We didn't play on the Friday, so we socialised with the traders, teams and players and soaked up the atmosphere, something Paintfest has in abundance.  It really does live up to the name, paint(ball)fest!

Saturday was one of the most beautiful days you could hope for at a paintball event, the sun was shining and there was a nice breeze to stop you from getting too 'over the top' hot.

There was a full roster of games on, including Sup-Air from the guys at CPPS, a Vampires VS Humans scenario game, Miltac for the tactical guys and also their Killhouse experience with the guys from Hostile Intentions.

There was something for everyone, beautiful weather, great company and a buzz about the whole event.  This is what I think paintball is all about.

The day then creeps into the evening, and the 'Enola Gaye' Paintfest Party begins.  NPF put on one hell of a party, with a free bar for the duration. 

Great to catch up with loads of people, the MANC union lads, BZ chaps, NPF guys, Taz and his crew and everyone who got involved in probably the best party in paintball.

Then comes the Sunday (with the hangover!)...

The field is laid out over a huge area, with some of the best playing fields I have ever played.  I was guest generaling for the HMC alongside Daz, Lee and Taz and I think we gave a very good account of ourselves.  I have to give a special mention to Thomas Hollington, who is an absolute beast on the field.  One of them type of people who are 'lovely' off the field, and then turn into an absolute savage on it.  He made some of the craziest attacking moves I have ever seen in my 17 years of playing our beautiful game, but I don't think he gets Mayhem Militia player of the day, that honour is shared jointly.  Ross 'Ginge' Trestain and Emma Smith, take a bow...

They played all the way through the USDE ranks to get to their start gate.  Fair play......Fair play *tips hat*

The final battle over Camp Bassets was also some of the most intense fighting, and the players that made it to the end of what was a very rainy Sunday deserve big praise.  The final result was a win for the USDE, but on the field it certainly never felt like we were losing, but maybe that was me just having too much fun shooting the USDE for fun.

HMC for life!  (or until we get a better offer!)

We never managed to get a photo with the whole Militia, but here's the hardcore:

So if you haven't been there before, NPF is amazing, check out their website:  http://www.npfbassettspole.com/

Get your ticket when they come out:  http://www.paintfest.co.uk/

So in conclusion:

GOOD POINTS:  Great people.  Great paintball.  An absolute must for the calendar for any paintballer, this is what paintball is all about.

BAD POINTS:  The rain on the Sunday.   Driving home.

Special thanks to:

Mayhem Miliitia:  Pete, Ben, Ed, Barry, George, Mick, Monkey Pete, Dalby, Brad, Ginge, Sparks, Emma, Ron, Tom, Alan, Chris, Dan, Nikki, Aaron, Neil.  All of the Militia, you guys make these events for me.

NPF Team:  Ged, Kerry, Stuart, Frasier, Nikki, all of you are amazing.

HMC:  Taz, Lee and Daz, always a pleasure lads, can't wait for 2016, we'll get them next year.

USDE:  Played hard chaps, well done.  This victory won't last long though ;-)

Everyone:  One of the best events in paintball, if not the best.  Thank you for being involved.  Hope to see you at the Mayhem Big Game in a month's time.

BZ Paintball top 10 paintball sites in the UK

21/07/2015

BZ Paintball, the UK's biggest paintball mega-store has released their top 10 paintball sites in the UK. 

We have visited 8 of the sites on the top 10, and we think they are all excellent paintball venues.  Reading through the paintball venues, we're delighted to announce that they have voted Mayhem as the UK's #1 paintball site!  Check out the full list here on the BZ Paintball blog, it's split into 2 sections, 6th to 10th and then 1st to 5th!

http://www.bzpaintball.co.uk/blog/top-ten-paintball-sites-in-england-no-6-10/

http://www.bzpaintball.co.uk/blog/top-ten-paintball-sites-in-england-no-1-5/

Mayhem Militia does Borderlands

26/06/2015

Over the weekend of the 20th and 21st of June the Mayhem Militia went to the Borderlands Big Game at Outpost Paintball in Chester for their first ever big game, and I've got to say it was an absolute blinder.

The teams were split into two, Hyperion which I (David Hodder) was generaling for and the opposition was the Dahl's led by Rob Davis from BUPS, who I should say is an absolute gent and a real top bloke.

The Militia had 8 players, Pete and Ben Raffael, Eddie Quigley, Barry Phillips, Mike Watson, Mark Robinson, our token northern Pete Finnegan and myself.

We rocked up on site on the Friday about 5pm, and set up camp on their freshly mowed camp site, which was about 100m from the staging area and immediately cracked open a beer.  As we didn't take the van, instead of taking the huge 4 man tent I invested in a £16 pop up tent.  Here's a rule for life guys...

NEVER SPEND £16 ON A TENT AND EXPECT IT TO BE GOOD.

We walked the site on the Friday evening, and I must say I was impressed with the set up and the guys had clearly been working on the new staging area so looked like they could do with a few beers..  Beers and Jager commenced at the party on the Friday evening and the DJ's were full blown festival DJ's so were used to rowdy drunk southerners! 

The Saturday games were played on various maps but split up into sections, and there was some serious fire fights on the differing maps including some cool features like a massive bridge, buildings, pill boxes, trenches and much more.  Here's a few photos from the Mayhem Militia lads and around the site:  All photos credit to:  Axon Photography

The Sunday was the main game, and was split into two halves morning and afternoon.  The games had 5 entry points, which alternated between the two teams on the hour.  We started the game at the far end of the field, and executed a master plan of pinching the other team with the Militia starting one end, and our friends from Asylum Paintball started at the near side and we essentially destroyed the Dahl's team from both sides and dominated the morning session, pushing them back to their spawn points across the whole field.  I particularly enjoyed shooting Richard from Outpost Paintball, who was playing for the other team!

The lunch break saw us leading 21-9, so we decided to take it easy in the afternoon to give the Dahl's a chance.  What a mistake that turned out to be.  Instead of executing a master plan in the afternoon, we left our guys to their own devices and just concentrate on shooting people!  The afternoon session was immense, some truly spectacular firefights where we concentrated on having fun and shooting their boys off the park. 

When the results came in that we narrowly lost, I actually felt the shock from my lads.  We 100% absolutely shot them off the park all day, and I'm sure their boys felt that!  It turned out in the afternoon they had guys running on the field collecting the crates (which gave you points) without guns to try and catch up on the score!  Fair play to them guys.

We had an absolute blast the whole weekend, and I look forward to next year!

Big thanks to the Outpost team, especially Jonno, Rich and Dale, all of the Militia lads for all the laughs throughout, the Asylum lads, Glen, Ronnie and co, and everyone who made the weekend such a massive laugh.

See you in 2016!

Win a FREE Tippmann TCR with an early bird Mayhem Big Game ticket: BEST VALUE GAME IN THE UK

12/06/2015

To celebrate the addition of mag-fed paintball to the Mayhem Big Game, we've teamed up with event sponsors Tippmann to give one lucky winner a free Tippmann TCR!

How to Enter

To enter, simply book an early bird ticket for the Mayhem Big Game 2015 before they expire on the 1st of July, and one of you lucky folk will get drawn at random to win a free Tippmann TCR Mag-Fed painball marker.  The TCR is a magfed marker from the #1 paintball gun manufacturer in the world, so you are guaranteed world class service, top end performance and the comfort and reliability that Tippmann have become synonymous with.  To be in with a chance of getting your hands on a free TCR follow the following steps:

1)  Book your early bird ticket by CLICKING HERE

2)  Book before the 1st of July 2015

3)  Cross your fingers, because all tickets purchased before the 1st of July will automatically be entered into the prize draw!

Good luck!  

Mayhem Militia does Operation Overlord 2015

09/06/2015

Over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of June, the Mayhem Militia went to Operation Overlord at the excellent Prozone paintball site in Annan, Scotland.  Operation Overlord is a new scenario game at the same site as England Vs Scotland, and sees two teams The British which had two generals, myself (David Hodder) and Stuart Mayo from NPF playing against the Germans who were headed up by Thomas Banks from BZ Paintball and Willie McPhelim from the Scottish Warriors paintball team.

Camping was also available on the Friday and Sunday evenings, so we decided to drive up super early on the Friday morning and we arrived on site around 12-1pm.  We had 5 players from the Militia to make the trip, and we had the van on the way up so we took all the essentials and then some including a BBQ, fire pit and gazeebo!

The lads who made the trip up for the Militia were Mick and George Hardy, Shaun Wilson, Brad Williams and myself.  We set up camp, had some lunch and then headed up to the staging area, which was about 50m from where we were camping. 

We headed over to get booked in, which was really quick and easy, and I was impressed how well organised they were.  We had a few beers and the jagermeister came into full flow.

The Saturday morning was something of a crazed blur, not just because of the Jager, but also during the night the wind must have been mental because our tents took a battering!  Our gazebo was demolished, so we set about righting the camp.

Then came the games, and some were absolutely breathtaking. 

 This is a shot from the beach landing game, where we had to assault an actual beach.  This was absolutely brutal.  The German's were literally shooting fish in a barrel, but did that stop us?  Hell no!  This was an unadulterated hardcore paintball action, and boy was it fun.  The problem for us, was we were so close together and they had concentrated fire, so we lost a lot of numbers very quickly, but I love this photo from just after the break where we are storming towards the Germans....

The rest of the games, took place over the main site which is mainly woodland and has some awesome features like WWII style bunkers/buildings, a kill house, bridges, a massive lake and strong hold fort with two storey towers.  We had some great fire-fights through-out the event and by the end of the Sunday, I thought my legs would actually fall off.  We didn't play the last slapstick game, but we did watch and that was a great laugh, some people really went for it, and unfortunately us not playing the slapstick game I think may have cost us the win.  The score was super tight, but the Germans just pipped us to the post, so a big well done to our rival generals Willie and Thomas, although I must admit I think the scoring must be off because it felt like we hammered them every time we went out (I blame Stacey), and a big thank you to Stuart Mayo, his lads at NPF and the rest of the British team for their hard work, and especially those fought shoulder to shoulder with us at the beach landing game.  Great effort lads.

A fantastic event, that we will definitely be attending in 2016.

A huge thank you to the crew at Prozone, especially Taz, Tracey, Stacey (except your dodgy scoring Stace!) and the marshals who were absolutely fantastic.

So in short,

Good stuff:  Site was awesome, staff were even better, 3000 and 4500psi fills, drone was flying about filming, and a great time had by all.

Bad stuff:  Wind (it was insane on the Friday night!)

One last thank you to the Mayhem lads who made the trip up with me, George, Mick, Brad and Shaun.  It was emotional :-)

BBC need your help

02/06/2015

The BBC would love to have you help take part in there new TV show, details are below, so please share :) 

COD vs Battlefield Scenario Day

21/05/2015

Battlefield Vs COD Scenario Day:  Thursday 28th of May

During the upcoming school half term, Mayhem will be hosting a special scenario day based on the epic computer games Call Of Duty and Battlefield.  We will be playing a variety of different multiplayer game missions from both games on our movie set playing areas, including of course our replica COD map. 

SPECIAL OFFER

If you book and pay in full by Monday for any pre-pay package, and use promo code:  BATTLECOD at the checkout, and you will get £4 off of our pre-pay package deals.

Click here to book your place, or call us on 01708 688517

Missions

Mayhem Paintball Photo

03/05/2015

We love feedback from our customers:

'Hi, We had a party of 12 today at your paintball centre at Pryors Farm, we all had a fantastic time.  I took what I think is a good photo, which i have attached.  You are welcome to use it on your website:'

Thank you, it's a great photo, and is too good not to share!

North vs South

28/04/2015

This weekend is North vs South, the biggest paintballing game in the UK, with 1800 players last year its more of a bank holiday weekend festival than a game of paintball.  People camp, there is a bar and games running saturday and sunday.  We have attenended the last 5 years and Peter Rafeal from the Mayhem Militia has been 10 years running.  The concept is genius the North of the country against the south yes it does sound a bit game of thrones like.  The area is vast you can walk for ages and not find anyone to shoot, there is a minibus service to take you to the action.  With Lips, Just, BZ all in attendace there is also a great selection of trade stands, so if your bored call Warped sports and book a ticket.