dosent matter avre can not wipe your infantry unless you have them standing on top of each other. sturm is guaranteed wipe. wipe two squads of vet 3 riflmen late game then it just goes down hill from there. it even stops you from being able to combat other tanks because you constantly have to be worried about the random nuclear bomb comming out of no where wiping your tank and turning the game upside down.
If you actually read my original comment you will that I have not claimed that Avre is better. Instead I pointed out that Avre gets a bonues vs buildings and in my opinion that is the direction heavy assault guns should go. Better at attacking builting even if that mean reducing their effectivness against other targets.
On the comparison thou:
Does a S.T. has a more effective shot? yes it is. Does Avre have practially a faster R.O.F? yes it does. Does S.T. have a major advantage because it ingores collision? It has an avtanage but it is not that massive because Avre can fire over most shot blockers and both have chance of colliding with the terrain and exploding before reaching the target. Does Avre has disadvantage because it turret turn? Not really because the S.T. has turn to face the target and that many times takes longer. Have that said Avre should propably be allowed to have its turret locked.
S.T. might be more efficinat than Avre but the difrence is no way near to what is presented in O.P