Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30049823-20190613002858

So there's "Humans vs Zombies", and "Capture the Flag", and "Free-for-all", and ...

What else do folks play with their Nerf blasters as a group?

I had a couple ideas I haven't tried yet.

"Cowboys & Indians ... & Pirates ... & Ninjas"

Cowboys get a wheelgun or two, and a hat. Indians get a bow, and a melee weapon if it's a 1-shot bow. Pirates get a muzzleloader (Jolt reskin LOL), and a melee weapon if it's a 1-shot muzzleloader. Ninjas only get a melee weapon, because they're ninjas.

Makes the teams easier to identify even if you don't have costumes or armbands. But of course you've got costumes, right?! Hahaha!

"Escort The Bomb"

This seemed like a good concept for a backyard game when you have a couple of slow old people and a bunch of kids. Set up an obstacle course that criss-crosses the backyard, and the old people have to pull a wagon through the course. Wagon puller has to walk heel-toe so they can't just sprint through the course. Old people are impervious to anything except headshots. A headshot requires the old person to be stationary for a 20s countdown, which means the wagon-bomb ain't moving. (Whether you can return fire or reload during this time can vary depending on how many old peeps vs kids there are,) Old people can only fire when in proximity to the wagon-bomb. When a kid gets hit, they have to run all the way around the house to "respawn" (haha, tire those lil' bastards out!)

I came up with the bomb-escort idea after finding some inflatable paintball barriers at a thrift store, and trying to think of ways to use those outdoors in a way that wouldn't just cause you to LOSE all your friggin darts in the woods or the neighbor's yard... i.e. make sure all the firing is focused in the same area! Everyone will either be firing outward from the wagon's route, or AT the wagon, making the grassy dart-retrieval process afterwards a LOT easier, and with a higher success rate.

And it gives us old/slow/fat people a fighting chance against small fast opponents with infinite energy. 