their additional +30% accuracy bonus at vet 3 is too much for their current svt-40. They had that bonus back when the svt40 were crap, but the current penal just turn insane once they hit vet 3.
the 30% accuracy bonus at either vet 3 or vet 3 should be removed.
Firstly i'd like to agree with you that over-powered units are frustrating and tend to steam-roll.
Is this a risk/reward issue of going T1 and having success resulting in veterency?
Without doctrinal guards going T1 leaves a soviet player watching the clock - have the opposition got enough fuel for a luchs or is that a flame halftrack I can hear through fog of war?
If i have gone guards have i earnt enough command points to get guards. If i got no AT in time it's over T1
I think there are good options for countering AI units but I do get where you are coming from.
Clerv.