Sniper

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A soldier armed with 7.62mm M21 / SVD Draunov sniper rifle whos task is to kill infantry from long range, clear buildings and work as scout.
Sniper
Image:Sniper.png
Role Sniper
Faction USA
USSR
Armament M21
SVD Dragunov
Price 450 supply units
Introduced at Start: USA, USSR

Contents

Description

  • Available at start with the other basic infantry units.
  • Trained from any Barracks.
  • Stealthed in all positions, but reveal themselves when firing.
  • Armed with an M21 or an SVD Dragunov, very effective at picking off infantry from afar.
  • Able to clear garrisoned buildings (20-30% to kill one garrisoned soldier)
  • One of the two only units that cannot do a combat drop.

Usage

  • Good scout units with a long range, damage, view sight but slow rate of fire.
  • Snipers are not rushing units, they are support units. So always make sure that they are not in the 1st line of your squad but rather on the back.
  • Very useful at disabling USA defenses and clearing USSR bunkers.
  • Useful to picking up important support units in enemy squads.
  • Always wait the enemy in prone ; they're worst in accuracy when standing.

Against Infantry

Very effective at long range, normally takes two shots to kill enemy soldier. Overall, damage dealing to enemy is smaller than the damage of the Heavy Sniper. Inferior at close range to other types of infantry due to long reloading time.

Against Vehicles

Can only engage jeeps/trucks but with minimum effect.

Against Aircraft

Cannot attack any aircraft nor helicopters, except hovering/landed ones.

Against Buildings

Can engage structures to clear them from garrisoned soldiers but it can't deal any damage to them.

How to defend against

  • The sniper is weak against any non-infantry unit. Any ground-attack vehicle can take them out easily.
  • Snipers can do nothing against stealth detector, such as Humvee M2, BRDM-2 and AH-6 Little Bird.
  • Move at their position when you detect them, they can only fire single shots with a long delay.
  • Snipers are very weak against most other infantry types at close range, getting near to them usually means killing them.
  • Clear them if they're in a building with a rifleman's/ officer’s grenades, a sniper, a RPO Soldier or by using a Humvee Mk19, BRDM2 or Artillery.
  • Defensive structures can cause devastating results to snipers if they will get to close.
  • Mortars are a serious danger for Snipers if they are firing [ = revealing itself] in their range.
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