[Charles22]

quote: Clearly there is no reason not to change the generic sniper weapon and give it national flavour, other than lack of interest.

Ah yes, but you didn't think beyond one of the statements made earlier, which wouldn't take much effort, and at the same time your last conclusion in the quote is correct. Thinking beyond as earlier statement means when we were told of the 250 unit limit. Even if there is room in every army to have highly specialized snipers, and many of them have already 4 or 5 just for different fire control ratings, is it worth it when you consider you have just crippled any possible future additions in so doing?

So yeah, lack of interest plays into that, because as I said earlier, I would rather have more variants of the same tank, than 10-15 snipers in every army. The fact that every army has at least 4-5 different ones is far more than enough. The only problem with that is that the slots are better spent in some other way. If one would insist on them staying as snipers, than it might be a better thing to not have generic rifles for them, but less options for fire control, such that the same amount of slots are used.

In any case, the current sniper setup is just about the same thing, because you have so many different units for each level of fire control, you might as well be saying they each have either better rifles, or better scopes, or both.