Gallian Sniper Emblem
Snipers are armed with bolt-action rifles fitted with telescopic sights and small Ragnaid canisters. Their primary role on the battlefield is to eliminate enemy officers and provide support for friendly units.
Gallian Snipers
While a Sniper possesses huge potential against enemy infantry targets over very long distances they have some of the lowest action points, hit points and defense of all units available to the player and therefore steps must be taken to protect them from enemy action on the battlefield.
While Snipers can evade enemy fire, they cannot intercept enemy combatants, counter attack or launch cooperative assaults with adjacent allied units. Lacking explosive weapons, they are also relatively ill-equipped to take on enemies in cover.
Valkyria Chronicles
The Sniper class requires a heavy investment of Experience points before they really come into their own; at low levels, use of a Sniper will generally require the player to save beforehand, since their combination of long range, reliance on headshots and low basic accuracy makes scoring a hit more a matter of luck than skill. At higher levels they become an extremely effective means of removing troublesome individual units from the battlefield, particularly enemy Leaders, Lancers and other Snipers. Snipers are relatively poor at eliminating enemy Aces due to their high evasion, unless the player first "turns" the Ace by attacking him with a different unit to make him face away from the Sniper.
Enemy Ace sniper rifles in the main game typically sacrifice range and accuracy for power; this is seldom a useful compromise, since a Sniper should be aiming for headshots anyway. The DLC missions include two Aces with unique sniper rifles, the ATR-01 and ATR-03. These give the sniper enhanced anti-tank ability at the cost of accuracy, range and anti-infantry capability.
Standard equipment
Valkyria Chronicles 2
In Valkyria Chronicles 2, snipers became a 2nd tier class of the Scout main class and can be promoted to either Sniper Elites or AT Snipers. Unlike snipers in Valkyria Chronicles, they are very useful and very accurate even at low levels.
Standard equipment
- Sniper Rifle
- Ragnaid
- Field Suit
Valkyria Chronicles 3
Imperial Snipers
An imperial sniper
Imperial Snipers were sharpshooters attached to various Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance infantry units during the Second Europan War.
They were deployed during battles in order to neutralize enemy officers, as well as regular infantry if the opportunity presented itself. Using the ZM SG manual action rifle, Imperial snipers were able to achieve a higher rate of accuracy than most soldiers during the war.