Sniper Artillery Piece

Sniper
Production information
Type	Artillery
Tech Base	Inner Sphere
Year Availability	1950's
Technical specifications
Heat	10
Damage	20/10
Minimum Range	-
Short Range	-
Medium Range	-
Long Range	18 Maps
Tons	20
Critical Slots	20
Ammo Per Ton	10
Cost (unloaded)	300,000
Ammo Cost (per ton)	6,000
BV (1.0)	?
BV (2.0)	85

Description

The Sniper Rifle Artillery piece is the smaller cousin to the Long Tom Artillery Piece designed by Armstrong Industries. As the second most-powerful tube artillery in the Inner Sphere, the Sniper has an effective range of 9 kilometers. While usable as field artillery, the Sniper is also mounted on several vehicles: the Marksman, Padilla Artillery Tank, Sniper Artillery Tank, and Teppō.

Models

The Sniper Artillery Piece is manufactured on the following planets:

Brand	Planet	Company
Sniper Rifle	Bainsville	Armstrong Industries

Rules

Rules Revision

The Sniper Artillery Rifle prior to revision artillery rules, was considered optional standard equipment, using old Level 2 Rules. After introduction Total Warfare rule set, the equipment was re-shuffled to the Advanced rules. Which made it no longer considered playable in Tournament, thus Non-Tournament Legal.

The Sniper artillery's ammunition options were expanded to include Smoke, Anti-Personnel, Illumination, Incendiary, Copperhead, Flechette, Thunder/FASCAM, Cluster, and High Explosive Rounds (High Explosive rounds considered the "Standard" rounds for tube artilery). The standard rounds damage was increased from the old Damage = 10/5 to 20/10 damage.

See Also

(References to Sniper Artillery Piece)

References

• BattleTech Compendium: Rules of Warfare, p. 116
• BattleTech Master Rules, p. 116
• Tactical Operations, p. 284

Bibliography

• BattleTech Compendium: Rules of Warfare
• BattleTech Master Rules
• Tactical Operations
• Technical Readout: 3085