ToyMachine

My friends the other day went pballing at some place I've never been before with their church group, and they brought back some interesting pictures...
There was a guy there that looked ironically like he was ready for real warfare...a tippy A5, two pistols (one on his left side and one strapped to his right leg), a cocking shotgun-style paintball rifle thing of some sort strapped across his back, two shoulder straps with some weird kind of paint grenades (possibly homemade), and I think they told me he also had a homemade paint grenade launcher in his bag, though he never used it.
My first thought was this guy is an idiot. Who wants pistols and that weird backup shotgun thing over pods and a single marker that you're confident will perform? I looked on eBay real quick, and the pistols he had cost $120 or so each, and their holsters were $45, and this guy had both holsters decked out with like 3 backup magazines and 2 12-gram CO2 cartridges each, so I'd figure he spent a total of $340 on his pistols, and at a completely random guess another $120 on the weird shotgun thing.
For that much money plus what he spent on the A5, he could have gotten himself a nice Timmy or Angel or something.
I thought about scenarios but I still fail to see why this is better than a good, solid marker and a nice pod pack. For some reason it just pissed me off to see someone who clearly had so much money up their ass and didn't know jack **** about paintball (seeing as this guy played in beginner still, despite all his gear, which of course included a nice looking mask and jersey and pants) get all the attention and be feared by all the other players in beginner (as I gathered from my friends' awed description of him as the Paintball Terminator) simply because he looks like he came out of a real battle. Anybody know of a logical reason why what this guy did is a good strategy for paintballing?