Based on your personal experiences of times when you played as a support role. The poll is restricted to discourage fence-sitting.

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I don't think everyone understands what you mean as a supporting role. Are you there to escort a VIP? Do you just watch someone's back while they infiltrate the fort? Please elaborate.

I don't think I've ever played such a role (let alone for 30 minutes) but I'm sure 400 rounds would be sufficient because of the fact that both you and I have the stock grip with no auto, bursting, ramping, or any other type of trigger speed advantages.

As for fence-sitting, it is kind of inevitable. Because some (actually most) people run e-grips or R/Ts, firing 10-20 BPS, making 400 rounds insufficient. For the most part, they simply run through too much paint too quick to be able to last 30 minutes with 400 rounds.

If you're looking for individual answers: yes, it would be sufficient for me.

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I've burned through 4 140 pods laying cover fire with a stock grip before. Just depends on what the field is set up like, if its more open you can burn alot of paint trying to keep heads down.

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Yes it can be. But I never go onto a field with less than 750 rounds, 4 140 pods and a full hopper. Better safe than sorry.

i would have to say no. let me qualify my answer with this little cliche...........

it's better to have more than 400 and not need it, than to have only 400 and need more.

if you are going to play milsim style ball, IMHO, you should be prepared for as many scenarios as possible.
given that, you should be prepared to provide support if you're main support team is not within range to give immediate support, or if your team is cut down and you're one of the only ones left, or whatever else might come up. life itself is about having a backup plan, and those extra rounds might be the backbone of your backup plan in a support role.

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Perhaps "light support" would better suit 400 rounds for 30 minutes.

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I'm going to say no as whenever I envision a support role, I see a guy laying down as much fire as he can on every enemy he can see. While I'm covering someone, I'll be letting a string rip and can go through a lot of paint, way more than 400 roiunds are needed for thirty minutes.

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I concur. In small ?30min? skirmishes, I carry 4 160rnd pods plus a hopper. Because I'm the jack of all trades for my team, sometimes I'll shoot a pod. Sometimes I'll shoot it all. As others have mentioned, better to have more than you need, than walking off the field cause your out of paint or air.

I'll load out a 330rnd hopper, four 140 rnd tubers and four 100 round tubers. So I tend to go out with almost a thousand balls and sometimes I still need team mates to resupply me.

Today in 4 games (longest being 2 hrs) I went through 1.75 cases of paint and my GF went through about a 1 case. Generally I am the person who lays down a hailstorm of covering fire for the attackers and tends to coordinate our attacks over the radio. If the need arises for me to become an attacker; which it did today and I did "kill" 2 of the op for in my mad charge; I will attack. Besides the more your vest/harness weights the stronger you get. If you can shoot, move, maneuver and kill with 40lbs strapped to you, just imagine what would happen if you lighten the load!

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I imagine you could use 400+ balls with the stock trigger. However, for me, I play on an urban field (not speedball not woodsball) and I use about 500 balls per day, in about 10 eight minute games.

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