» Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:58 am
To answer your question more specifically:
Just say you have a four man team; you'll have the shooter, who has the dedicated sniping rifle, a spotter who is behind a high powered spotting scope to direct fire (he has an automatic rifle too), a rear guard with an automatic rifle + grenade launcher, and then you have a machine gunner with a LMG.
This is professional military. Teams are often bigger nowadays (it used to be two/three, now it's up to 6 or even squad sized).
Pistols are pretty useless in warfare; they're last resort self-defense weapons. With a sniper team, they're not needed as there's so many more effective weapons.