RE: SG II Snipers and the spirit of the game [CLEAN STAMP]

Some big snips taken out........

At least I've brought a few SGers into the light!

OK, "in my defence".....

IMHO the rules for snipers are referring to the specialist sniper(Bn
Level
specially trained etc). Look at the shoot n scoot rules, quality checks
etc.
These would really be beyond the average rifleman (albeit he is a better
marksman). House rules have been put forward by a number of people to
allow
the use of sharpshooters ala Sov Motor Rifle SVD and the likes at
platoon
level and I like them for playing special or advanced rules type games.

My personal experience with snipers in Australian and Brit Army has only
had
them at Bn level. Generally you will only have two or three sniper pairs
in
the unit and they are always tasked with Bn level missions. In this case
the
snipers rely on the stealth and fieldcraft to protect them rather than
use
of firepower. 

Anyway, the original question was about a sniper taking a shot that
couldn't
possibly hit so therefore would the target be automatically suppressed?
To
reiterate, so we don't lose sight of the original question, if the shot
is
beyond the fifth range band or the cover bonus cause the closed die
shift to
go over d12 defence die then I say that the target doesn't take a
suppression as no shot is fired. 

There you have it,

Cheers,

Owen G
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Los [mailto:los@cris.com]
> Subject: RE: SG II Snipers and the spirit of the game [CLEAN STAMP]
> 
> 
> At 12:54 PM 12/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Cleats Balentine wrote:
> >>
> >> I really must take exception with Owen's inference
> >> that using a sniper to get suppressions goes against
> >> the 'spirit of the game.'
> >
> >It really does, though. No sniper would risk giving away his position
> >just to make a platoon keep their heads down for a few minutes.
> >
> >That would be a huge waste of his time & effort, and could possibly
> >get him killed for nothing.
> 
> 
> Well I have to disagree but with a caveat.  A lot of times 
> people think of
> snipers as some guy that went to sniper school for two years 
> and is as good
> a shot as Lee Harvey. But the fact is most snipers have a specialist
> weapons and have received some training but are working for 
> Companies or
> even platoons. A marine and even US rifle companies (TOEs