M.E.R.C. 1417 is a walking, talking, shooting force for woodsball. We eat, sleep and drink paintball tactics.

Every week the team goes out to its private paintball field and meets up with its dedicated crew. There, we develop and review new gear where it makes the most sense — in the muck and mire of actual paintball play. No other woodsball company puts their gear through the kind of testing that we do. We know what we like, and we only use stuff that works.

And . . . we’re not just testing gear. M.E.R.C. 1417 spends many hours each month in the classroom honing tactics and strategy that is tested during drills and regular play. The paintball doctrine found on this website has been tried and tested by the team and is proven to kick ass on the field.

Basically, M.E.R.C. 1417 completely relies on the superiority of coordinated team play. The M.E.R.C.1417 members have owned far too many lone wolf players to deny the power of playing in sync. Week after week, we dominate groups of experienced walk-on players who lack only one thing: a coordinated team. Commonly, M.E.R.C.1417 will hang the flag on walk-on groups four to five times its numbers, and we pull it all off through the power of communication, tactics and leadership.

Some team members are old paintball vets (with over ten years of experience playing paintball), but much of the team is new to the sport. You cannot tell by watching us play, though. Even our newbies have honed their skills through loads of experience, practice and after-action review. Fact is, we don’t claim to be great players, individually. As a team, though, we’re unstoppable.

M.E.R.C. 1417 preaches the advantages of team play through its actions and also through on-the-ground paintball trainings. Every year, we invite select players from around the country to join us on our private field for a weekend of paintball play and intensive training.

The ten-acre M.E.R.C .1417 Paintball Retribution Field is the ideal environment for paintball tactic-building. With virtually every woodsball structure known to man, the field offers a serious challenge to those who would train as a team. With two full fields and an attack-and-defend field, the team and their scrimmagers can expand or shrink the field to meet the day’s scenario. With bunkers, towers and pillboxes, the defensive fortifications were designed to provide a maximum assault challenge to force the team to rely on solid strategy and fluid coordination.

How could a company claim "We Are Woodsball" without living woodsball first? We don’t think it’s possible, so we play paintball like it’s a lifestyle, not a weekend hobby.

The M.E.R.C. 1417 paintball team roams around the country like a rock band on tour. The scenario season finds us caravanning from Texas to Oklahoma.

Join the team and gain benefits from M.E.R.C. 1417! As a team member, you can track your game play and skills, and find yourself earning great benefits such as free merchandise, discounts, free tours and VIP treatment at the M.E.R.C. 1417 pavilion at paintball events.

Probably the coolest thing about signing up as a team member is that we will hook you up with your own smoking paintball website. The website will track your gear, photos, attendance at events, and even your kill ratio!

As a team member, you gain rank as you play. With increased rank comes free stuff and invitations to special events.