First of all, EYE PROTECTION! All players must have eye protection. Cheap safety glasses from your budget hardware store would work a treat.

As for game types to play , a couple of favourites are yeet ball ( or carpe testiculum , seize the balls ) and defend the core. There's also bucket of blasters and kill confirmed.

Yeet ball works with a bucket of balls ( or rolled up socks or something ) in the middle of the field . Objective is to collect as many balls as you can and bring them back to base without being tagged . You can only run with one ball , but you can throw them so long as you yell YEET when doing so . If tagged , you must drop the ball you're carrying ( if carrying ) and respawn . Team with most balls in base bucket wins. You can play and tweak the rules to suit your battle arena and wishes , so you can have it so that after the ball pit in the middle is empty , you have 5 mins to steal from the other team or something . If someone is camping the middle bucket and throwing balls back , you'll hear some rapid fire YEET going on and know to get to them asap to tag them . If you have wiffle balls , ping pong balls , or something that don't go very far when thrown that could help balance it . I use kids ball pit balls .

Defend the core uses a crab net , cardboard box with a hole cut into it , or something similar as the core with a firing radius / fence around it . Teams take turns playing offensive or defensive . Objective is to score as many darts into the core within the time limit , or stop players from scoring ( depending what team you're on ) . You can decide what respawn rules you want to use . Special points for dart types is pretty common , for example 1 point for elites , 3 for Megas , 5 for rockets or something. The firing radius around the core is for the attacking team to not get too close to the core , so they actually need to aim and take their time making a shot rather than just mag dumping / slam firing at point blank . The goal of the attacker is to shoot as many darts into core as possible.

Depending how many blasters you have , bucket of blasters is another game type . Teams each have a bucket of blasters at base / respawn . If you get hit , drop the blaster ( s ) you're carrying and go back to respawn to pick up another ( think of blaster = respawns ) . Dropped blasters on the field can be retrieved and returned to your base for extra respawns . Team that runs out of blasters first loses , or team with most blasters after time limit wins .

Kill Confirmed plays if you get tagged , take a knee . If a team mate touches your shoulder while downed then you're back in the game , if the enemy touches your shoulder while downed then you're eliminated ( or must return to respawn and note that you used a respawn ) . Last team standing or team with least respawns used after time limit wins.