Hit percentage rant

[Aeraaa]

@gila: I dont think I'm such a bad loser. I know that even if you have a good hit ratio you can miss, or a bad hit ratio can score hits once in a while. But 3 concecutive hits or %1 rate? The possibility of that is 1/100^3, in other words almost impossible, yet it happened to me.

@scJazz: Each weapon has different probablities which show whenever that weapon is being fired. In all of the 3 enemy successes the enemy weapon was a plain old Mosin-Nagant. No LMG, no enemy sniper, nothing else. About the scouts not fighting thing, I agree with you if I play a meeting engagement or I'm attacking (and even then under certain cirumstances I use my scouts for fighting). However I'm playing as the USMC againt NKorea defending the Obon-Ni ridge (sp?) and I'm being attacked by a horde of infantrymen and T34s, so I need every rifle I can get.

@suhiir: my sniper was dug in in a foxhole in defense. IMHO I think it was better to leave him there, especially when no tanks zeroed in on him. But I have to admit I'm guilty of stationary snipers quite often.

Oh and my enemies where visible, so no Z fire spam (not that I would ever do that with a sniper, that why rifle squads and MGs are for)

[gila]

I always buy the cheaper snipers and train them,when they get over 95% exp, then buy an upgrade.
Makes it less a heartbreak than losing a expensive sniper in early battles.

As already said before,it just takes one lucky shot to make a dead sniper,unless it's a team.

[runequester]

I use snipers rather extensively in my current soviet campaign and they are well worth the cost in my opinion. I've managed several times to inflict casualties on a dug in enemy with sniper fire, then the infantry can go in and clean them out.

[chrissandvick]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

...However I'm playing as the USMC againt NKorea defending the Obon-Ni ridge (sp?) and I'm being attacked by a horde of infantrymen and T34s, so I need every rifle I can get... my sniper was dug in in a foxhole in defense.

Keep in mind that a lot of advice given is general in the sense that it will often apply more to generated battles than to scenarios. I've played 001 Obong-Ni a few times and you're not going to be using scouts or the snipers in the same way simply because of the assumptions of the scenario. You're getting swarmed and it really is a case of every unit firing full blast just to keep from being overrun.

As others have mentioned snipers are deadly but fragile. When I played that scenario the snipers pinned the advance for a bit but always got zapped from the sheer amount of return fire.