Snipers

[Mike Abberton]

I think Snipers are most effective in the middle of their range, say 200-300m. They are practically invisible at that range and hit a good percentage of the time.

Another advantage of snipers on defense is that if you place them forward and leave them hidden, the enemy basically has to walk right over them to spot the sniper, and even then he's got a chance to stay unseen. Then, the first wave of troops advance and the sniper is free to start taking out TCs in the followup armor wave, as well as provide intel (not really realistic since snipers would not generally have radios, but borg spotting is a fact of life with CM).