Question Odds for hitting a sniper/scout unit

Tomas · #1 August 20th, 2016, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by shahadi

What puzzles me is a pinned unit. A unit is reported as pinned, I keep up suppression with my assault team regardless, because I do not know, and how could you unless he stops firing.

Pinned units can return fire if fired upon. Better to supress them with Z-fire with unit that's outside their LOS and then close in for the kill.

jp10 · #2 August 28th, 2016, 10:36 AM

As a real life anti-sniper drill, grenade launchers are a quick squad option. Snipers in WinSP hold their positions too long. Most snipers are going to take a few shots and move to their next position. A unit will cover all likely cover positions in an attempt to flush the sniper. If there was a way to have snipers retreat more when under fire they would become more of an elusive well trained threat than a 'die in place' defender.
Most snipers also operate in at least pairs so I often edit them to 2 or 3 men per sniper team when making a game.

Suhiir · #3 August 29th, 2016, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by jp10

As a real life anti-sniper drill, grenade launchers are a quick squad option. Snipers in WinSP hold their positions too long. Most snipers are going to take a few shots and move to their next position. A unit will cover all likely cover positions in an attempt to flush the sniper. If there was a way to have snipers retreat more when under fire they would become more of an elusive well trained threat than a 'die in place' defender.
Most snipers also operate in at least pairs so I often edit them to 2 or 3 men per sniper team when making a game.

Keep in mind a hex in WinSPMBT is 500m across, lots of space for a sniper team to redeploy in apx. 250,000 sqm!

Mobhack · #4 August 29th, 2016, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

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Originally Posted by jp10

As a real life anti-sniper drill, grenade launchers are a quick squad option. Snipers in WinSP hold their positions too long. Most snipers are going to take a few shots and move to their next position. A unit will cover all likely cover positions in an attempt to flush the sniper. If there was a way to have snipers retreat more when under fire they would become more of an elusive well trained threat than a 'die in place' defender.
Most snipers also operate in at least pairs so I often edit them to 2 or 3 men per sniper team when making a game.

Keep in mind a hex in WinSPMBT is 500m across, lots of space for a sniper team to redeploy in apx. 250,000 sqm!

It;s 50 metres, not 500, but still a half a football field is a lot of ground to play whack a mole in.

Suhiir · #5 August 30th, 2016, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

It;s 50 metres, not 500, but still a half a football field is a lot of ground to play whack a mole in.

Oops ...

scorpio_rocks · #6 August 29th, 2016, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

Keep in mind a hex in WinSPMBT is 500m across, lots of space for a sniper team to redeploy in apx. 250,000 sqm!

50m hex, approx 1600 m2 (point still stands however)

Edit: Ninja'ed by Mobhack while I looked up area of hex calc...