Sniper!

[scalydemon]

It appears the 1e rules can be obtained via a PM. boardgamegeek.com/thread/1538629/rules

There is also an official errata thread

[captainjapan]

scalydemon, thanks for the lead. I signed up at BoardGameGeek. Wish me luck.

UPDATE: I now have a copy of the the Sniper! rules thanks to John at BGG. I haven't had the time to go over them thoroughly, but I have skimmed the sections relevant to the turn sequence. Excerpted below is an explanation of the simultaneous movement mechanic I referenced in the Chainmail thread, that didn't make it into the TSR re-issue (please excuse all the syntax and capitalization errors. It was a text pull off an image file):


GENERAL RULE.

During each Operation Plot Phase both Players

must record each man's mission (see 6.0
Individual Mission Summary) on his
Simultaneous Movement Plot Chart. Each unit may

execute only one type of mission per
Game-Turn.


PROCEDURE.

The Owning Player writes the identity number

of the man or vehicle down the first column

along with the operation code (see 6.01 to be

performed. If the man is moving or firing, the

hexes moved through (one by one), or fired

upon are written down in the following

columns. If a given hex takes more than one

Movement Point to enter. the number of

Movement Points expended to enter is also

written down.

CASES

[5 1[ SECRECY AND HONESTY

Each Player's Simultaneous Movement Plot

Chart is to be hidden from the other player

until the end of the game. If there is any

question about the other Player's orders, the

Player IS adVised to write them down and

compare It with the Simultaneous Movement

Plot Chart at the end of the game. A Player

who secretly violates the rules to gain an

advantage in the game, forfeits the game.

152] SIMULTANEITY OF COMBAT

All combat is considered Simultaneous. For

tillS reason Combat Results are not effective

until the end of the Combat Phase. Then they

are applied to all units that suffered them .

152 1] A man that suffers a combat result in a

given Combat Phase must engage In Combat

during that Combat Phase If ordered 10 do so

by The Simultaneous Movement Plot Chart

Without any consideration of the combat

result The combat result does not affect the

man's Combat Ability in any way until after all

combat of that Combat Execution Phase is

completed.

i53] SIMULTANEITY OF MOVEMENT

All Movement is also considered Simultaneous.

Both Players execute all Movement during the

Movement Phase Execution Segment. All

Movement must be executed; men may never

alter their Movement in response to Enemy

actions.


There is a "plot chart" in the rules. It looks like a glorified timeline. While there was no timescale specified, the gameturn is basically:

1)Sighting (obviously, very important in game called Sniper!)
2)Mission plotting (like writing orders) see above.
3)Panic! (This is a morale or activation mechanic?)
4)Combat Resolution
5)Movement

I don't know what exactly I'm going to do with these rules yet, but I know it's going to be something design oriented.

[captainjapan]

Sniper! is an inheritor of the development work Jim Dunnigan did on Panzer Blitz. An aborted idea for that game was to take it down to the individual man or tank level in scope.

Apparently, SPI had received a submission for an old west gunslinger game, except SPI had made a policy to only publish in-house projects. The idea impressed Dunnigan enough that he decided to return to man-to-man combat.

One of the two major texts that Dunnigan referenced to model movement and fire in Sniper! happened to be Michael Korns 'Modern War in Miniature".

The source of this information is an excellent write-up by Martin Campion for an issue of the seventies wargamining magazine, 'Moves'.

www.spigames.net/MovesScans/Moves18/sniper_profile.pdf