Sniper Spotted! Sniper Spotted!

I've been playing a lot of the Battlefield 2 demo lately with one of my mates, it's been good fun, we'd head from base to base, working as a tight team, killing the bag guys, stealing their transports and taking their bases for our own. Usually I'd be playing as an assault class soldier armed with a rifle and not much else, it's good fun, going around the place killing random bad guys and what not but recently I've been experimenting with being a sniper and that's an interesting experience.

Mad dashes for cover, followed by scoping out snip points, then another mad dash to the nearest ladder, praying no one sees you as you climb up. Then quickly hitting the deck to make your self less noticeable, crawl into position, then you wait. And wait. And wait. All the while scoping out the area for the enemy, half of them are out of range, so there's no point in shooting them, the other half are in transports of one kind or another. Then, eventually you spot one lonesome guy out in the open, you track him, waiting for the right moment to shoot, trying to anticipate his next move, he stops and crouches down, you line up the sight, pull the trigger. And sigh as you miss miserable.

Thankfully it's not always like that, there are times when you just cap them in the head from 200 meters away or more first time now that's a good feeling. What's even better is when another sniper has spotted you, a game of cat and mouse break outs, the war around you is forgotten about, all you care about now is killing the fucker who just took a pop at you! Let me retell the story for you....

I was at the top of a crain, I mean right at the top, sitting on the main arm, sniping any enemy troops foolish enough to get to close to the base below me. Then a sniper took a pop at me, it was none other than my mate (cheeky sod!). I quickly found out where he was and sought cover behind some of the architecture of the crain, peering out to find him, it didn't take long, laying down on the top of a hotel a good 250-300 meters away (half the width of the game map). We exchanged a few shoots, he then duct behind the roof exit structure and so I waited for him to pop out again, which of course he did, I then lined up my shoot, he evidentially thought he was safe, hardly moving from his spot, I raise my sight, taking distance into account, pulled the trigger, and he toppled over, one shot kill! Now of course in the intervening time between his first shot and my killing him I nearly missed some guy making his way up the crain so naturally I was able to deal with him quite easily being so much closer and watched as his lifeless body tumbled back down the ladder and crashed into the floor below.

It things like that, that make being a sniper fun, sure there are times when you're just scanning the horizon begging for someone to rear their head but all it takes is for a bullet to whizz past your head for the real game to begin.

This is Benji Dude, asking you to take a walk in my shoes.