Just while we're in the thread, what's the counter to Sturmpioneer flamer builds? I faced it the other day in a 2v2, never even encountered the flame doctrine before. We had both fuels on Moscow Outskirts for the first few minutes, we were like "woah this is easy" then suddenly they popped flamers and uprooted all of our defensive positions (double brit) + wrecked the mortar pit that I had just built in seconds.
Then they built 3x raketen to snipe the first cromwell we built with our accelerated fuel in one nanosecond.
Maybe it was just bad luck but holy shit I haven't got facerolled after such a strong start ever before.
I would try a bofors when in defence, it can protect your mortars. For offensive I can't think of anything but waiting for heavier stuff.