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Sniper
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
Snipers are infantry soldiers trained and equipped with sniper rifles or other long-range, high-precision firearms. They often work alone or in small teams from concealed locations. As well as training in the use of sniper rifles, the most effective snipers are also trained and adept in camouflage and infiltration. The battlefield role of dedicated snipers is assassination. Their targets are usually enemy commanders and other high-profile individuals.
Being an effective way to demoralize enemy troops and damage their command structure, several races and forces utilize dedicated snipers in some form:
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Imperial snipers
- Arbites Marksmen
- Catachan Snipers
- Imperial Guard Snipers
- Ratling Snipers
- Kasrkin Sharpshooters
- Mor Deythan
- Space Marine Scouts
- Skitarii Rangers
- Sternguard Veteran
- Vanguard Eliminators
- Vanguard Incursor Marksmen
- Vindicare Temple assassins
Chaos snipers
Horus Heresy and Great Crusade Era
Alien snipers
- Eldar Rangers
- Genestealer Cult Genestealer Sanctus
- Genestealer Cult Jackal Alphus
- Kroot Long-Sight
- Necron Deathmark
- Ork Snipa Boys
- Tau Sniper Drones
- Tau Pathfinder Marksmen
Sniper weapons
- Sniper rifle
- Absolution Sniper Rifle
- Bolt Sniper Rifle
- Executioner Shotgun
- Exitus Rifle
- Galvanic Rifle
- Hellshot
- Hotshot Marksman Rifle
- Instigator Bolt Carbine
- Jezzailli
- Kroot Hunting Rifle
- Las Fusil
- Longlas
- Needle sniper rifle
- Nemesis Bolter
- Occulus Bolt Carbine
- Ranger Long Rifle
- Rail Rifle
- Scoped Big Shoota
- Space Marine Sniper Rifle
- Stalker Bolter
- Synaptic Disintegrator
- Transuranic Arquebus
- "Ultra" Pattern Mk. IX Sniper Rifle
Sources
- 1: Codex: Imperial Guard (5th Edition), pg. 38