The Art of Assassin: Advice and Strategies for This Fun Water-Gun Game

Welcome to the second part of this two part series involving the game of Assassin. As you have all read previously, the game requires much skill and strategy to become the known elite, or in some cases, lots of luck. In part two, I will write of advice and strategies I have come to learn from experience.

Light, heavy, or stealth?

Many times, you have to question yourself. Are you going to go with a combo of a light squirt gun with two water balloons? Or are you going to carry a small water gun concealed in your pocket? Or perhaps you might be willing to bring the whole package? You also have to consider your defensive and offensive potentials for using these three combinations.

Light firepower
Advantage: If you use this tactic, usually you are going in for a blitz, or lightning strike, where you as the assassin are attempting to rush the target, catching him or her by surprise. This is recommended as many times, the target is caught unawares. Light firepower means enough power to take on a small force, as well as providing the range needed to soak the target without having to walk right up to the target themselves.

Disadvantage: With light firepower, if someone decides to hunker down in their garage or elsewhere with heavy firepower, you will be outranged and outgunned. You simply will not have enough water either to soak them with if there is a long firefight.

Heavy firepower
Advantage: You are able to outshoot and outrange your target. This category of weaponry includes very big and heavy water guns, many water balloons, to the garden hose. Basically, it is going to be very hard to kill you, and very easy for you to kill your target or assassin.

Disadvantage: Of course, having the strongest weaponry is not necessarily the best all the time. You will be put at a disadvantage with the sluggish speed of the weapon because of its weight and size. Even more so, even though the garden hose has by far the greatest range, its mobility is limited to the length of the hose.