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Offline Iglooman

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How to counter snipers as Soviets
« on: January 24, 2010, 04:29:07 PM »
Hi!

Last game; there was a sniper spying on me, the flak ennemi killed my katiouchas  and tanks?

I discovered him by walking all around but another came again....

So how can I find snipers as soviets, ami has jeeps but brits has nothing. Does soviet have something?

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2010, 05:17:08 PM »
Mass conscripts :D!

No, but seriously the next patch will have something for this.
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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2010, 05:24:24 PM »
Ok thanks :)

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2010, 05:51:01 PM »
Now germans spamming snipers+flame-engineers, smashing all defence, and dont let Sovs get any vechikle.
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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 07:41:39 PM »
HOW can you have trouble with snipers when playing a faction that relies on INFANTRY SPAM?

It defies the mind.

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2010, 07:45:46 PM »
owned  ;D

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2010, 08:00:22 PM »
as they lack retreat however snipers can be pretty effective  ;D

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2010, 08:25:41 PM »
Saavendra - its easy.

Band of 3-4 snipers fears nothing in fight vs early infantry. EVEN if my brave soldiers ( LOL) could get closer - flame engineers burn them very quick.
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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2010, 09:47:24 PM »
Not every unit needs to have an easy counter. Sniper is useless anyway against the big size squads. You can just run 2 squads to the sniper location and he'll retreat or die. If you are really desprate you have a free arty to call on him. A sharpshooter can kill it too if he's detected or retreats.
I also saw that a rus squad near an outpost can survive 2 sinpers who constantly shooting at them, due to the fast reinforce speed.

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2010, 01:05:24 AM »
Band of 3-4 snipers fears nothing in fight vs early infantry. EVEN if my brave soldiers ( LOL) could get closer - flame engineers burn them very quick.

You have EIGHT MEN SQUADS. And you can send in THREE AT THE SAME TIME EASILY. WITH SUPPORT.

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2010, 01:06:26 AM »
Conscripts: hard counter. XD

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2010, 01:24:01 AM »
note that the wehr snipers at vet3 got 50% lower cooldown so they shoot twice as fast, if they manage to build 6-8 of them soviets squads will dissapear in seconds (I've tested in on allies and it works miracles but they have some hard counters to snipers like reacon/countersnipe).

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2010, 01:26:36 AM »
after you spend 80 fuel getting them to that point the rus should have sharpshooters in large numbers, a solid counter

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2010, 01:28:13 AM »
after you spend 80 fuel getting them to that point the rus should have sharpshooters in large numbers, a solid counter

Or a group of T90s (another hard counter).

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Re: How to counter snipers as Soviets
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2010, 01:28:56 AM »
1 T90 is 130 fuel to get to.