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DRG said:
It's "a sniper rifle" and has all the same stats as all the other "sniper rifles" same as the Belgian "sniper rifle" or the Polish "sniper rifle" or the Swedish "sniper rifle" or any other "sniper rifle" from any other nation. You can think of it as a M1903A4 or a M1C or whatever you like. In this game a "sniper rifle" is the same no matter whos using it
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And this is one of the problems with the game as well as sniper rifles specifically in the game.....the tendency too lump them all as "being equal. Quite simply, they AREN'T. I really don't understand this "everything is equal" concept for the OOBs. Were people just not interested in doing the research for individual weapon's abilities, or is this some kind of effort to not discriminate or hurt feelings against any one particular nationality?
I did some research and the 1903A4 sniper rifle wasn't available until early 1943. The M1C Garand sniper rifle was available in limited quantities starting in July, 1944. And the M1D Garand sniper rifle wasn't approved until September 1944. Only 7,971 M1C sniper rifles were ever built. Very few M1D sniper rifles saw service in the Korean War and NONE saw service in WW2.
There are FIVE different sniper unit descriptions in the OOB for the USA. (063, 156, 162, 323 and 324). Three of them (063, 323 and 324) show sniper rifles from 1930 to 1949. The other two show starting dates of 1/42 and 11/42. So ALL of this data is WRONG. The 1903A4 sniper rifle didn't arrive until 1943. All of these units show ONE sniper rifle...number 146.
As to the capabilities of US sniper rifles...they were not exactly spectacular. The 1903A4 was just a standard production run 1903A3 Springfield Rifle made by Remington. They were taken off the standard assembly line. No special checking was done of it's accuracy. Remington won the contract for them and all they did was bolt on a cheap (2.2 power) commercial scope, modify the bolt handle to clear the scope, remove the front sight, and install the scope mount and scope. This is in contrast to the German and Russian sniper rifles which were selected based on their individual accuracy and had a 4 or 3.5 power scope mounted on them. As long as a "casual" attitude about the weapons used in the game is maintained, realism is going to suffer.
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