No, I'm not a novelist, I'm a mechanic. Ok, a mechanic with one hell of an education. hahaha...
So, instead of laying back, why not up the game? Turn up the heat! Make some bacon...
When I first started airsoft there were only a few snipers as well. The first year I played I did little but observe. Oh sure, the occasional melee to test the mettle of my opponents, but mostly I took notes. Who's gun shot what. Reliability of that gun. Ranges, terrains, everything...you don't build a gun and go play airsoft...no sir! Play airsoft, then go build a gun!! Study the land, the movement, the habits. I may have wasted a year in the eyes of some, and a few thought I was an idiot for throwing myself in front of the ordnance but I was really checking out what kind of jam those guns had.
Advance a year...the winters are long here and I had a full six months to work on things. Try a few experiments as it were. Some worked, some didn't (more ordnance testing). One more winter passes..and voila! The RK-104 AK of DOOM. It's noisy, harsh, and shoots really, really far. The noise was so signature that it was much like stepping on a rattlesnake. Hear the rattle, you're in trouble. But they got wise and one entire game they just stayed away from that corner of the field. The entire club was thrilled when I showed up the next spring and the AK was sold. Except now we had a new problem...the new replacement rifle sounded just like everyone else's! Oh the madness!!! I built a GK5C! Sure, neat gun, but absolutely no different in the exhaust note. Again, club not happy.. hahahahaha...especially the snipers. So, last fall I sold the GK5C (my kid bought it from me)....and built my EBR.
Now we hear nothing. The EBR has some sound deadening to it. It makes no noise..not much more than a sniper rifle and in fact, from 100 feet away, it sounds just like a bolt gun...until the follow up shots come., bawwwhaaahaaaa!!!! Yeah it sounds that way on purpose.
See, the point is, the game isn't won with the rifles, or the gear, or, or, or...no sir, it's won in the head. I recently made a training bayonet for the EBR (see sig pic). EBR's don't have bayonets. That's silly! Look at it! Silly!...but wait. I show up to the game with an EBR like that. There's a scope, a laser, a bayonet, and I only have one rifle. My camo is Realtree to blend in ridiculously well with my surroundings and although I'm a big dude pushing 50, yet in 30 seconds I've vanished into the trees. You heard a few test shots at the range beforehand and you know it makes no noise and shoots far.
Occasionally I'll rattle a few off just over the opponent's head to let them know we're watching....then nothing. Then a few more over their head from a different heading. Rattle a few off the tree six inches from them. Let them know it isn't random. That's worse than a kill shot! hahahaha...It rattles the mind.