Battlefield 2 - sniper's guide
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Written by Juxtaposition

Tag Team Sniping

What's more fun than one sniper? You guessed it! Two snipers!

Seriously, I have had great fun sniping with people who have I have cooperated with. It yields great results and many kills for the both of you.

The most rudimentary form of tag team sniping is two snipers, set up to overlook the same positions (don't get too close to each other though), cooperating and shooting the same person. Easy huh? Over the voice comm it goes exactly like, "Okay, let's get the guy on the right."

"Okay"

"Three, two, one, shoot."

This is especially useful with the M24 as it's then an instant kill; it still works fine with the Dragunov and the Type-88. Those have the added ability that each sniper fires twice so if one of them misses once, it's not a problem.

There are many more advanced things you can try. Suppose you have two guys waiting for a plane, try to take both of them down at once and really screw with them. If you coordinate each shot so you fire at the same time it royally confuses the targets by masking where the sound. I'm not sure what it sounds like from the victim's perspective, but I imagine the sounds blend together and give the target a false idea of where the shot is coming from.

Another simple variation is to have one sniper aiming into an aircraft hangar. The second sniper shoots and flushes him into supposed safety, only to get cut down moments later. This eliminates the need to get down on ground level to shoot underneath the hangar at people's feet.

It's also easy to set up ambushes, particularly if you have the semi-auto rifles, just set up claymores and just open up when they trip them, sounds simple enough but you make much quicker work of your targets.

Other variations that have been successful are a sniper watching another sniper. The rear sniper is preferably behind friendly lines, and watches the other sniper for threats. If someone makes a move on the exposed forward sniper
the rear one gives him a nasty surprise.

Another one, but a bit more boring, is one sniper spots targets and doesn't fire at all. When the other sniper is rooted out and killed the second one starts shooting. When the first sniper gets back he spots for the second sniper until the second sniper dies, repeat. This way you can keep the enemy under constant sniper fire. It has a terrible effect on morale and can even keep
people from spawning at certain points.

I have yet to try this one, but I imagine two snipers with M95s could instantly take out a pilot. You could camp the airfield and just shoot whoever jumps into a plane or helicopter, effectively grounding their force for as long as you were operating. The only problem I could see with this one is if the damage
through the windshield isn't as much as it is normally.

Experiment and send your successful tactics in.

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Table of contents

• Home
• Preface
• Introduction
• General Information
• General Tactics
  • How to remain undetected
    • Appearance
    • Concealment
    • Location
  • How stealth is broken
  • How to use secondary weapons
  • What snipers do aside from shooting everyone they see
• SVD Dragunov/Type-88 Rifle Tactics
• M24 Rifle Tactics
• M95 Rifle Tactics
• Tag Team Sniping
• Snipers as Squad Leader
• What's New
• Contact Information