Fleisher Resnovich
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.08.22 18:39:00 -
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While people "know" that the primary role of a sniper is to kill enemy soldiers, they tend to forget the secondary & tertiary roles; Squad Support & Sniper-Hunting. Both of which have been amply covered in previous posts, so all I'll do is add my agreement to them.
I'd love to claim I'm a natural born sniper. Truth is that while I can shoot while moving; I can't hit anything that way. I therefore shoot from stationary which - if you want to avoid multiple deaths - means shooting from cover.
One of my favourite cover spots is the top of one of the Plateau Towers. I was one of those annoying people who zipped up there alone in a dropship and covered A & B or B & C. That was the days when dropships were free & could be flown without a piloting skill. Nowadays I mountain goat, cover hug & occassionally shadow a small squad of my own side offering support from just behind them and just out of sight. (The latter is not easy, by the way)
The towers present a few issues however; namely that the top can only be reached by dropship & that once you've been spotted, your only safe option is to jump off, get to safety and start all over again somewhere else. The latter is an occupational hazard; snipers should never stay in one place longer than three shots really, whether they get a hit, a kill or three misses. It's the former that I have a potential way around.
While it's possible that they're there & I just haven't noticed them, I'd put ladders up the outside of the towers. They reduce the need for dropships, increase the amount of time to get into position & stop the enemy having to get dropships just to splat snipers with. If you imagine the tower as a square with a ledge half way up it & running around three sides. (not accurate, but bear with me)
You could run two ladders; one from ground to one end of the ledge, and one from the other end of the ledge to the roof. To get to the roof, you'd have to climb ladder one, run around three sides of a square, then climb ladder two; all without getting shot.
I'd like to see dropship-free routes onto most rooftops to be honest. How many buildings do you know that have roofs that can only be accessed by an aerial vehicle?
It may seem like I'm asking for a lot of pro-sniper stuff. It's not my intention. A lot of weapons can be devastating from high ground, not just the sniper rifle. If you're using comms properly, then a sniper-scout-spotter can make life a lot easier for a team of pure ground-pounders. I don't want more open ground & less cover. I just want a way onto a high building without having to use a dropship.
See you on the batlefield ladies & gents 
Fleisher. |