Re: SG II Snipers and the spirit of the game

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:26:04 -0000, "Steve Gill"
<Steve@caws.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>Not too likely given that snipers tend to fire from out of range of
normal
>weapons (and way beyond the range at which you stand a chance of seeing
them).

That certainly wasn't the case during World War II, for the most part. I
think
this brings in the distinction, though, of elite assassin type snipers
versus
"lone, almost regular soldier" snipers that made up the majority of
"snipers"
during the Second World War. 

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