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We certainly could amend or add FAQ to present the required approach, but this is clumsy, potentially misleading, and does not seem to be sufficient.
Sufficient to what? The major issue you seem to see is that Snipers can be good at killing tanks in assaults. Except that's just a symptom of the fact that if you're good at killing one kind of unit in assaults in Epic, you're good at killing the other kind, too.
As far as I can tell, you've got two goals.
1) Distinguish between sniping vehicles and infantry
2) Distinguish between sniping in assaults and in shooting.
The rules currently do the latter, and the former is an artifact of the way assaults are abstracted in Epic. It's a larger problem than Sniper, and "fixing" Sniper won't fix that.
It works well enough as it is. If reproducing anti-infantry units is so difficult, maybe we need some kind of anti-infantry ability. But the existing abilities are OK.
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Consider the implications within your comment which though unintentional, seem contrary to the current FAQ:-
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Q: Can the Sniper ability be used in an assault?
A: Unless specifically noted on the datasheet (for example, by addition to a small arms weapon), Sniper ability does not apply to attacks in assaults.
I think the current FAQ is probably wrong based on the RAW (FF (and CC) attacks are still attacks. Sniper applies to attacks, not to shooting. You can use Sniper in assaults. Done). That said, I think the rules work better with this interpretation, and so I don't really mind that much (though adding "assault weapons" in next to Small Arms would be good). If giving a unit Sniper made it snipe everything all the time, that would be bad, and it's easier to require new lists to be explicit about their intentions than to patch a whole bunch of extant lists.
Under the current system, you can create units that can snipe with particular weapons, that can snipe in CC, that can snipe in FF, or that can snipe with all their shooting. Or any combination of the previous. That's pretty good.
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though that may require a FAQ to explain that ‘small arms fire’ denotes that the ability only applies when in FF (‘base contact’ is self-explanatory)
There are already too many FAQs that explain the blindingly obvious. If you have Sniper on a weapon that is Small Arms only, then yeah, it's only for FF. That's the only time you can use the damn weapon. People shouldn't need to be told that specifically.