Sniper Wars

[Mad Baron]

It's all just casual fun between opponents who play together a lot (or, heck, you could track your own aces on the side, in any game for that matter--all just something to personalize the action a bit more)! ;)

Snipers are tough to keep alive in a game, too...and this just makes you step even more carefully with them in a game!

My own sniper stats are this so far (we are only on Game #2 doing this)....

1st Battle (end of battle)
Sniper Ace.....3 kills.....1 battle
Sniper B.........2 kills.......KIA
Sniper C.........0 kills.......KIA

2nd Battle (still in progress)
Sniper Ace......3 kills from before...
Sniper B...............newby
Sniper C...............newby

Another rule Vin and I have is that snipers can only be 1 Crack, 2 Veterans (or 1 Vet, 2 Regular, etc.)...until one has 5 kills, then you can have the Ace be Elite, and both the other 2 can be Crack. So the Ace is always easy to identify...he is the one who outranks any and all others that game (and both opponents have access to check and double-check the end game results on the Final Map).

I had thought about Tank Aces, too, when we started this Sniper idea. And of course, it was Wittmann who came to mind!! haha

A good point in these posts has been that ''eliminated'' doesn't necessarily mean ''dead'' and they can be mere casualties, just wounded!

Here is a thought just off the top of my head. If a tank is knocked out, and any crew survives, that commander/ace survives to the next battle. But if he is knocked out any two games in a row, he is killed; otherwise he lives to fight another day, and continues his kill count.

And if you are playing a game with many tank commanders the same rank/quality (veteran, crack, etc.)....just pick ones at the start by name and let your opponent know who is who during set-up. Example: Williams is my tank Ace this game and has 4 kills already from last time, Brown and Phelps are my other two for record and have 1 and 0 kills in order.

Both sides can easily check end-game results!

Or an alternate idea would be to say (if you want to be more relaxed/casual about the count)....Gee, I have 5 tanks, all Veteran. If only 2 of the tanks survive, my two highest aces to date could be said to have survived, and get credit for those tanks' new kills. (Just get agreement between opponent's beforehand for this.)

This all has potential to get complicated and unwieldy if carried too far. But tank or sniper aces seem the logical choices to keep track of for some fun side action!

What does anyone think about these thoughts??

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