Most players tend to forget that the "sniper" role in airsoft isn't about taking the "one shot, one kill" mentality, it's more about recon, surveillance, and proper use as a hidden force-multiplier.[/quote]
Actually its ALL ABOUT recon, surveillance, and proper use as a hidden force-multiplier
If a team (or group) has a sniper and or multiple snipers and they hold key points "high ground" they dont even need to fire a shot they can feed the team enough intell as to movment that the other team is or is not making. I would say in my own opinion that --optics-- (range finders, binoculars, and scopes) are as much an important tool to the sniper as his -weapons systems-, and lets not foget --tracking-- is also essential to a snipers suvivability factor (as well as his teams)