Spotting and unit quality - does it matter?

[The Coil]

Finally got around to running some "how well are snipers spotted" tests, and was immediately reminded why I didn't run them earlier. Very boring and marginally useful at best...here's what I came up with, for the record...

Walked 6 German snipers down lanes of a single type of terrain, ie all brush, or whatever. At the other end of the lane, an American platoon, un-foxholed, not hiding, not moving. Walked the snipers at the platoons with 'move' orders. All units are regulars. Results are given in meters away when the sniper was spotted...an 'S' means there was a sound contact given ahead of the hard spot, but ranges are when a hard spot was obtained...

Open 87m
Scattered Trees 23m S
Woods 14m S
Brush 46m S
Rocky 70m
Rough 55m

In Open, Brush, and Rocky, the sniper spotted the platoon first (at ranges of 315m, 75m, and 140m respectively), otherwise the platoon got the first spot.

Now some disclaimers...only ran one trial of each, because it's very, very nonexciting (unlike the test I once ran with 5000pts of arty dropped on a bunch of bunkers...now, there was a test). So the ranges could vary quite a bit. Also could vary across non-uniform terrain...if your sniper is walking in brush, being spotted by a unit in woods, through a scattered trees tile, then your guess is as good as mine. Also, all tests were done with units facing each other, if you walked up on the flank of the unit, spotting ranges would drop. Ran all the tests with non-binoc units, so that'd probably change the ranges as well. Also, different experience levels of the snipers would presumably affect ranges. So I'm not sure how helpful this test was... Let's be honest, I really just ran it so CT would quit hounding me... ;)