I have rounded up 7 other airsofters from my school and founded a team. Our first "meeting" is next Saturday. Since were all 13 there not real serious about it and only half of them have decent guns. I did get them into pairs which i think would work well considering we will have a small team. Any suggestions on what to expect, different tatics, or how to keep them focused?

Not to make this sound like boot camp or anything,

Get them working together, through differnt scenarios, set up as much game/training time as possible, don´t go passing blame if things should go wrong in a game. Show the players that are out there will low level guns that they can be just as effective as somebody with a high dollar gun when everybody works together.

In your meetings keep them focused,

Where do you want to go with the Team, Just friendly play with the guys, go up against other teams......?

Do you want the team to be larger?

Equipment, what kind ?

Passing on of new information, or just team internal information ?

Make sure that politics don´t become part of your team, nothing will destroy a team faster then when players start to get the feeling that some are working against everybody else.

Set up some kind of Command structure, somebody has to lead the team, give it direction, keep it on the right track.

Assistant
Secratary
Treasurer, if you are going to be collecting dues, lets say for a team Party at the end of the year.

A team can get out of control real fast, be ready for it.

Ok thanks. I think i want to keep it small at least until i get a good system down. There are a few local teams i have sechuled to play. I have broken the pairs into designated roles. Such as a Sniper team, Marskman team, and 2 medic/assualt teams. Is that an ok set-up to start with.

Ok fist of all , you gotta get fit , luckfully most of the people on our team play football , great work out , unfortunatley I don't but we all lift weights , also great training other than that , thats it .

Eating right, staying hydrated. Anything you would do for another sport

Join a proper airsofting site with your team. Makes more sense that way. You'll have more fun

im doin something like that 2 im having a team of 8 and were younger this is what i did as far as grouping. i did 2 teams a firing sqaud of 5 consisting of 2 support gunners and 3 riflemen and a recon team with 2 snipers and 1 spotter i think it works great. u should consider it

I like his grouping .

ya seems nice with our new team we are going to mostly wait and see what they are best at and see what they like and we have already put most of the guys in 3 squads but from there they may be switched around.

by the way what guns do they have and equipment

My squads are variable depending on the situation because sometimes we need different things.

why 1 spotter and 2 snipers?

Most likly because one sniper works better alone and the spotter is still in training so he may wait untill they train that spotter before getting another.

only advice i can give is make sure u have a sloid rank system, with no field leader nothing will get done . you need a clear chain of command.

no offence to slobb 212 but wouldnt it make more sence to have a sort of council than a lear?

i agree with slob's first post. And i think i might use the team party idea. Get the team motivated for the rest of the next year. Slob what would you suggest dues to be though? i mean i'm the oldest in my team the rest are 13-14 so i need a due that is reasonable. I've tried it and some paid the dues and the rest didn't.