why are snipers always so absurdly badass

>>140530147
Character archetype.

Also because it takes a certain kind of person to kill a man in what is effectively cold blood.

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It's all in the caliber

Because they're barely present and because of the role they fill.
You make them either useless or overpowered. There's nothing else you can do.

>>140530246
>Also because it takes a certain kind of person to kill a man in what is effectively cold blood.
Not really.
Observations of soldiers have shown that any human can get used to killing other humans (from a distance) over a very short period of time.

>>140530147
Its all a media fantasy stereotype, designated marksmen aren't in real life.

>>140530246
The further away from your target the easier it is to pull the trigger. There is less psychological pressure, and less visible trauma. Stabbing a person is the most traumatic way to kill someone, taking a shot from several hundred yards away is very easy to absolve mentally.

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>>140530147
I don't know about that. In the year of the dead snipers, all of them were well liked characters but none of them were exactly badass.

>>140530386
Don't forget that watching how the brains are splashing around the place is an experience not for civilians
And don't forget what soldiers can do to a captured sniper.

>>140531106
>watching how the brains are splashing around the place is an experience not for civilians
Don't forget the speed at which the bullet moves.
There's not much splashing around to be watched. At best you can see the spray on the wall, but then you're hundreds of meters away.

>don't forget what soldiers can do to a captured sniper.
What is that supposed to prove?

>>140531223
That you should be pretty brave to be a sniper and pretty smart to survive, much braver and smarter than a usual dude with a rifle

>>140531614
>That you should be pretty brave to be a sniper
But it's the opposite.
Soldiers hate snipers so much because they *don't* get into the danger zone. They fire their guns from relative safety.

>>140531709
What an ignorant thing to think.

>>140530147
They don't know the specific.
Sniper is responsible for every miss or other failure. Sniper is hated by enemies for shooting from the distance from the cover.
Allies may not like sniper because his shots attract artillery fire on his position.

to make up for the fact that they are too pussy to fight like real men

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>>140532065

>>140530147
Gotta play it cool to keep a steady bead on the target.

>>140531709
I suggest reading up on some real sniper stories anon.

>/a/ on snipers
>/a/ on warfare
Absolutely disgusting. Anyways >>140530246
got it right it, the cool stoic sniper is a pretty common character archtype.

>>140532065
Fuck off, Michael Moore.

>Crippled Zeek motherfucker
>badass

Otherwise, yeah. Pretty neat senpaitachi.


>>140531709
>>140532065
Fuck off.

>>140530147
Because infantry units don't know every time they kill. They can spray an area where the enemy is, hide, and repeat. Snipers know exactly who they kill and when.