Astromici's guide to shooting sniper rifles.

[McCree]

I find the marksman kit to be most useless kit of them all. Haven't had a single game where a marksman in my squad would have been useful. They cannot do CQC well plus their weapon is inferior to the normal rifleman's scoped assault rifle.

At least snipers can laze targets if needed. (though i don't like to have them in my inf squad either)

[Draakon]

Originally Posted by McCree

I find the marksman kit to be most useless kit of them all. Haven't had a single game where a marksman in my squad would have been useful. They cannot do CQC well plus their weapon is inferior to the normal rifleman's scoped assault rifle.

At least snipers can laze targets if needed. (though i don't like to have them in my inf squad either)

Quite the opposite to me. I can kill any target at ranges of 400m. Sometimes even higher, if i am lucky.

[TheLean]

Originally Posted by McCree

I find the marksman kit to be most useless kit of them all. Haven't had a single game where a marksman in my squad would have been useful. They cannot do CQC well plus their weapon is inferior to the normal rifleman's scoped assault rifle.

At least snipers can laze targets if needed. (though i don't like to have them in my inf squad either)

The marksman is so underappreciated. I can see why SL dont want them since the kit sometimes makes squadmates wander too far away from the squad, essentially becoming rambos. But boy can those rifles kill! Usually one shot is enough and the targets is dead and they can hit up to view distance on some maps if you know how to acount for the bullet drop. It seems to me like the marksman rifles of certain factions works better than others. I have never had any luck with the british, but the m21 is a great bolt action rifle. The chinese works fine too, as do the SVD. Supposedly all marksman rifles have the same values for deviation and drop, so its probably placebo anyway. Btw, forget about the below 600 m no drop for marksman as stated in the manual, it is simply not true anymore.