Imagine with me that I was playing on Kyong Ni(sp) this weekend on the USMC side. Imagine that I spawned into the game near its conclusion and oddly the Chinese were all over the Airdrop but my team was way ahead in tickets. Anyway, imagine with me that I noticed that the squad I joined had a SL, HAT, Marksman and Rifleman. Logically, I chose Medic and spawned at the only available point, the main base. The SL quickly told me to get a HAT kit, which I did. He then told me to head up the hill from the USMC main to the command post which had been placed way up on the ridge above. There was the other HAT and three command trucks lined up with supply crates behind them. The SL was on the other side of the river marking targets for the HAT, who from that distance couldn't even see the enemy through the haze. Imagine that in about 5 minutes I had 10 kills and the number was climbing. Of course this did not really happen but imagine that it did.
At the Hague I would argue that I was following orders.I often hear in-game complaints about HAT sniping and how each round costs umpteen thousand dollars and that one would never use them on troops. Is HAT sniping grounds for kicking? Is this too different than using a jdam on a flag that just turned gray because an infantry squad moved in with a humvee? A jdam certainly costs more than a HAT round. Perhaps HAT sniping the south village on Kashan is actually saving the tax payers money over using one jdam.
What are your thoughts?
BTW - The ridge south of south village is ideal for HAT sniping, or so I have heard.
and c) it's a viable and effective tactic against fortified positions
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