How to properly HAT snipe

[Rudd]

Assualt on Mestia, set up Firebase south of east tower, one squad is the fire support section two other squads are attacking, one from east, the other from west. HAT, grenadier, LAT and AR rifleman just shoot at the bunker until friendlies get too near. It works, and is teamwork orientated as we need the firebase to supply ammo.

HAT sniping = win, if you cant get the sniper/remove his ammo supply its time to fall back.

[maverick551]

The title is intended to provoke. I am not going to tell you how to HAT snipe, but rather ask you if one should.

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.

Was that with CAS as Squad Leader? I think I was playing with you. My ingame is [PR]Supercobra. That was pretty ingenious of CAS, must have been so confusing for the Chinese, I know it was fun for us .

[Scandicci]

Was that with CAS as Squad Leader? I think I was playing with you. My ingame is [PR]Supercobra. That was pretty ingenious of CAS, must have been so confusing for the Chinese, I know it was fun for us .

Yes, it was... I did not want to mention names to protect the guilty. It was very effective against the fortified positions the Chinese had set-up at Airdrop. We could reach right across the width of the map with those AT rockets. Not too realistic perhaps, but very effective.

[para_hjs]

Implement HAT-kit ONLY on heavy armour maps i.e tanks.
Primary = always tanks.

Delay timer 5 min?


The key to HAT superiority is to take OPFOR HAT kits / always report in OPFOR HAT contacts and eliminate them, but it´s not as easy as it seems!