All you need is just sniper and engineer pair to build a sniper nest without silly rifleman trailing you. And historically snipers work in pairs.
And if you wanna run your squad with 5 man of whatever composition you can still do that.
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I hope that third sniper will be replaced by another specialist slot?
Radio squads are already better sniper squads than sniper squads themselves…
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wait so you want a sniper squad with only one soldier able to use a sniper rifle? as engineers cant use sniper rifles, if you want a sniper that can build things, no.
Reducing the minimum amount of soldier in a squad have nothing to do with that. You can still bring 3 snipers if you want. But reducing the minimum amount of soldier requirement to 2 man/squad reflects the reality of how snipers operate.
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So you’re requesting that DF allow you to reduce the number of soldiers in your five man sniper squad to two? I have no problem with people being able to drop squads to low numbers, although for myself I wouldn’t drop my sniper squads to just two, but to each his own. I don’t use most of my sniper squads as sniper squads anyway, I use them as sniper assault squads in level three for Allies, and level five for Germans, as I changed from ammo pouch to secondary weapon so my sniper rifle becomes my backup. It gives me another StG44 assaulter squad at level five, who can also snipe if the need arises. 
yes as long as one soldier is acting as a sniper and one soldier acting as an engineer and not having one soldier being an engineer/sniper hybrid.
Alternatively, removing sniper squads would be a more friendly option.
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Fair trade for Engineer III
That’s smart but I always ran out of bullet when switching to STG lol. And if you have to resort to STG as a sniper from BA rifle then something is royally effed 
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Normally is 2 soldiers, a sniper and a spotter and the spotter could be really the engi. Maybe 2 sniper and 1 engi. For when 1 catches a bullet. I whould like a few less men in a sniper squad
Using small formation and hiding my squad behind my actual sniping position has worked so far for me.
I would even argue that snipers should get a 6th member and even get the vitality perk, but I can understand where people are coming from with smaller squads.
Maybe a compromise here could be if you can order sniper squad AI specifically to stay further away from the player without them quitting your “hold position order”
There’s no need for compromise. Whatever snipers will get doesn’t matter because what’s gonna change is if you want to run a two man sniper squad you can do that, and if you want to run an upgraded six man sniper squad yes you can do that as well.
Really, lowering the number of minimum soldier of sniper squads to two wouldn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things but for people who love to “larp” by deploying a two man sniper squad it’s sure a quality of life upgrade.
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yep and add a man to every squad 10 rifleman, 8 mg, 8 assault, 6 radio, ect
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