Can you please provide us with your stats Katitof? Becouse you sounds to me like an ultimate pro-top player. You have no problems with taking out soviets SC with your own upgunned AC.
Sadly good soviet player will always have conscript with at grenade nearby. Most of the time 1 at grenade is enough to take out 3/4 of the AC, then you can easily finish it with small arms fire. Hell, after i put at grenade on AC i usually send my soviet SC to finish AC, and AC have literally 0% chances to make dmg when he is focused on conscripts.
Some people say that Snip + SC is devastating only with guards, well i dont agree, guards is not smt you must have since you can rely on conscripts at grenades which are very powerful against ost t2 vehicles.
Clown car is pretty hilarious, i dont like this whole concept yet i'am using it, becouse problem is i dont like t2 play with soviets so i'am forced to use t1 and eventually sniper + sc combo. But it definetly needs some kind of nerf, or maybe some small buff for ost t2 vehicles. Especially AC which is garbage in current state.
And btw Katitof feel free to play with me whenever you wants i would like to see that long AC flank vs my clown car. You can pm me or send message on steam. I would really like to see your pro micro play with AC vs cons with at grenades.
And I wont use guards, I promise, simply becouse i dont have to.
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