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playing the lie down

Umm... okay...

Well Anyways, like Sean Diamond said, if at all possible I'll try to get my knees under me, just for the sake of mobility. If not, then I'll try to look at whatever side is inside and post on whoever I can from there, concentrating on only one side, hoping that my back guy will be watching my back. Usually whenever I hit a 50 bunker, I try to shoot across the other side of the field, rather than straight on. I'm laying down, and chances are the guy on my wire is gonna have a better shot than me. Sometimes you can pop over the top to get cross shots that you can't make laying down (and some of these are VERY easy shots that people can't see when they're laying down), but of course, being in the front it might be a little trouble. That's something that I do only when I'm sure I'm not taking heat from anybody.

The snake kind of works almost like any other laydown bunker, except you have a potential for progress, and bettering your angles from the same structure. Moving down the snake is difficult without having your back wire put in his mirror. Even with your wire not shooting at you, sometimes people in the center can drop paint in over the
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\/\/ (this part)
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..| (as you move here, to the center, coming from the left side)

(I know, not the best diagram but hopefully it can illustrate okay)

Also, a thing you might want to do in the snake on the wire is immediately crawl back to the tail - when you first get there, it'll be very hard to advance when everybody's shooting at you, and sometimes you can get pretty good angles/free kills to start with, without having to progress down the snake.
 

Sean Diamond

Extreme Rage Man !!!
Apr 9, 2002
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If i have to shoot over the top of a lie down (i wouldn't if it was a good opposition as i would get lit up) then sometimes i lie back so my feet are near the bunker and occasionally pop my neck and marker up to snapshoot.
 

Mario

Pigeon amongst the cats
Sep 25, 2002
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Location, Location.
unforuantly sean on sup air in tourney's you can't really lie that far back from your barricade as you'll be taken out like a bitch. I'll have to work out something for myself and get back to all of you :p
 

your mom

wears army boots
the local field i go to has a wooded field with a long snake made out of branches, running along the side of the field (15ft from the boundary) and is on a hill, running up/down the hill. it is about 1.5 to 2 feet high. ur best bet is to crawl. that's what i do. i switch between crawling on my chest and shoffelling along sideways, depending on the amount of cover and height of that part of the snake. and doon't look out every 2 secs. everyoone and lis dog will know where u are. look out between the branches and nail them when ur far enough down that they have no cover from you.

i love crawling :D
 

weedave

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Jan 16, 2002
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Belfast
If Im at the tape I would usually just lie down on my front and lean out with my marker either looking down the tape or the other side of the field. (Only lean out if you can, its hard to snap shoot while lying down so your a pretty easy target)

If your playing a lie down in the middle, I usually just pop up and down very quickly and get a few balls off from the top of the lie down instead of the sides.

If you are being pinned at a lie down, try and lie as flat as you can because alot of the time you are showing your head or pack and dont notice it.

Hope that helps

Dave