Talk:Gl. Patton/@comment-31246361-20170227001041/@comment-31534053-20170320022159

Four max lv gekkos can slice 7.5% of a max lv Griffin's health off in one three-second cycle, which doesn't sound like much until you realise how many cycles a Patton could get before even a medium range Griff has a chance to fight back. Nasty little sniper if played right. I've seen them force a whole team to stay under cover.

And that's the trick of it. In RL snipers don't contribute much in terms of actual enemy or material losses in the grand scheme of things, but they can keep whole battalions at bay because nobody wants to be the poor fool that sticks their head up first.

Same thing in this game. Force the enemy to take cover and slow their advance.