Re: Integrating Snipers into DirtSide II

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Los wrote:

> Michael Brown wrote:
> > dental work done, this served to mightily piss him off.  Using 152mm
Beehive
> > rounds he went after all likely locations until the sniper (or parts
of him)
> > was found.

Ahh the sheridan. Big ass Beehive round. Very very effective. 

> A. How long did it take for them to get their shit together and and
fire at every
> likely location then sit there and wait for the medevac to come and
evacutaing the
> wounded TC? WHile at the same time sending grunts out to all these
locations to
> look for the (supid because he didn't relocate like he should have)
sniper.
> B: What was happening to their mission they were supposed to be
conducting at the
> time while they were doing all that?

The kind of sniper in this case was probably using a very light rifle 
that wasn't very accurate. He was also probably pretty close. Give that 
VC a BMG .50 and some training and he would have done quite a bit more 
than buggering the jaw of a tank commander and pissing him off. 

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