User blog comment:CaptainMacMillan/Ok Battlefield Wiki, BC2 OR BF3?/@comment-202.89.176.216-20120119023616/@comment-1889554-20120122150125

Camping snipers can be useful on any side. A defending sniper, obviously, is killing people, and an attacking sniper can defend someone arming the objective.

In conquest, me and my squad have taken multiple flags simply by me sniping from an overwatch position close to an objective and having my squad repeatedly spawn and attack the objective.

Recon is a good class, you just need to think a bit.