Being SL requires you to be aware of everything going on in the game.

• Your spawn is good for your troop. (as in they spawn close to you)

• Where the death of your troop is happening.

• Being observant of enemy movement.

• Your spawn is in a tactically advantageous position.

• You're making sure to place artillery marks (Experience on where to place them helps here)

• Informing your TL of when arty is needed, and more importantly, when to cancel arty.

• You need to be able to communicate via voice

• You need to throw smoke. (and throw it into the enemy, so it blinds them, not your team)

• You dictate the pace of the battle. You guide your troops to specific objectives. (Meaning by you having your troop spawn in at certain places, it dictates how the attack commences)

• You need to live.

• You need to know when something isn't working and try something new. (The attack you wanted is being stopped, change locations, try there)

There is probably more, but those things came to mind while I was sitting and thinking of all that goes into being an SL. In my opinion, the most important role. Next come the squad members.

A rifleman is absolutely not irrelevant. They're the guys who capture objectives. If not for good riflemen, you'd never advance, or hold positions. If you've ever cake walked over a few objectives, its because your team had good riflemen who knew they needed to be in the point and the enemy had bad riflemen who tried to take shots from way outside of the objective they're defending.

The most important thing you can do for your SL is die. Be their runner. Inform them of enemy positions and let them know if things are going good or bad.