Battlefield 1 - The Martini-Henry Sniper Variant (2021)

BF1 has a great selection of rifles from the era, and pretty much all of them feel unique to use. But the standout rifle - or at least, the most 'notorious' (in a good way?) is the Martini-Henry. Locked behind Scout Rank 10, a nicely aggressive (and generous!) sweet spot range, and a sound that's almost unmatched by any other weapon in-game. Today, I take the Sniper variant out for a spin - because it's a peculiar variant that's a whole lot of fun. Why put a scope on a rifle whose sweet spot it so close quarters?
For the longest time the gun just straight up ignored limb shots altogether, constantly doing its max damage regardless of where you hit on the body. This was one of the main reasons why it was so damn effective (and revered) in the earlier parts of BF1's lifespan. Then it got 'fixed', and the Martini-Henry sorta got shafted and somewhat shunned by the community afterwards - after all, you had a single-shot rifle with a supposedly aggressive sweet spot range... but because characters in BF1 often hold their arms in front of the chest, you'd hit them in the sweet spot but because the arm got in the way you'd often 90+ damage them instead of killing them outright.
DICE saw this, and eventually tweaked the rifle into its current state; the weapon will do up to 112 damage instead of 100 between 42m and 68m - meaning that even at these ranges if you nail a full-health enemy in the upper arm, it'll 'bypass' the limb hitbox multiplier and deliver a one-hit kill. With this little bit of love, players returned to using the rifle ever since.
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[@thatcooldude677]

After getting my 7th service star with the peacekeeper I just rewatched ur “I wanna be a cowboy” vid and all I can say is your pretty good

[@anhvuquang7906]

Return of the king

[@xFranZ]

Nice Shots! :)

[@Quinzel-j9z]

welcome back!

[@TheBattlefieldHistorianTwitch]

Hey Foddeur, do you have any of the Hunter Skins from the Road to BFV since Im doing some historical research on all Distinguished, Legendary, and Special weapon skins of BF1. What I mean by Hunter Skins, I mean by the Gold and Red weapon skins. If you have all of them, can you send me the list of it so I can write them down. Thanks and plus the Martini Henry Sniper Variant is a bit tricky to use if your going long range scouting tbh.

[@Foddeur]

I do have the Hunter/R2BFV Skins, yeah. Don't have the names of them off-hand, but checking the Battlefield wiki I can see that the BF1 weapon pages list the Hunter skins there.

[@TheBattlefieldHistorianTwitch]

@@Foddeur Alright thanks buddy. To be honest, the Martini Henry Sniper Variant personally is tricky to use i you know the sweet spot like the rest of the rifles for the Scout Class. I fairly use it than it’s Infantry counterpart and I only got 1 Service Star with it. The Infantry Variant is very easy to use unless you have to which the iron sites for the Radium Sites but once you get use to it you later lose it’s reliability which happened to me when playing.

[@byrantmitch-lq2ig]

yeah ur good but, are you attacking verdun on a spawntrap for all three battalions good?

[@jrk1666]

oh the outrage this used to cause

[@Foddeur]

Still does, to some degree! But hey, at least it's not _technically_ 'broken' any more...

[@Snowbird_89]

Shaken, not stirred. 🍸🍸🍸

[@Foddeur]

The Martini-Henry hits just as hard as the Vesper! Granted I've only experienced the latter personally...

[@mehmetemin425]

Should I always use the reset distance at 75m?

[@Foddeur]

Which zeroing distance you use comes down to personal preference, but I prefer not to bump it up from 75m unless I'm trying to make some _really_ long-range shots with rifles that have a slow bullet velocity... Like the Martini-Henry! But at those distances it's usually better to try and get closer or focus on a fight better suited for your weapon.

[@mehmetemin425]

@@Foddeur I tried very hard to open Martin hery but it is not that good, it is very bad at a distance of over 200m, I think the sniper I use sounds better because Martin hery only has a very good rate of fire and bullet speed.

[@viiceroy]

What zoom scope are you using ??

[@Foddeur]

Lowest magnification IIRC. Best advice I can give is to just play around and use the magnification that's most comfortable to you!

[@viiceroy]

@@Foddeur okay thanks. just started playing bf 1 in july been loving it so far , Regret not being able to play it when it came out . I love the henry its amazing

[@valify5972]

Using a 8x scope?

[@Foddeur]

5x. Usually go for the lowest magnification on the Sniper variants, as anything higher seems to be a bit much for me!