Editing Commando One Paintball (section)

== History ==

=== Early operation ===

Rob Maddox's article “Using the Net to Catch New Players”, published in ''Australian Paintballer'' in December 1995–February 1996, identified Rob Tapper as a Commando One field operator. It credited him with assisting an InterBBS four-player stock-class tournament organised through [[PaintNet (New Zealand)|PaintNet]] and supplying its trophy.[1]

=== Penrose and Whangārata ===

A contemporary profile of Tapper, archived on 4 February 1998, identified him as the owner and operator of two Commando One facilities: a five-acre urban depot and bunker in Penrose and the 140-acre Riverland Adventure property at Whangārata.[2]

In the same profile, Tapper reported ten years of involvement in paintball, five applications to councils to run games and the establishment of three fields, two of which were operating at the time.[2]

The New Zealand Paintball website's field directory also recorded both locations and named Tapper and David Caton as contacts.[4]

A WARPIG Field Finder entry dated 12 April 2000 listed Commando One on Hayward Road, Whangārata, approximately ten minutes from Pukekohe.[3]