You spamm flares and you can still upgrade inf, plant mines, call in offmaps?
You are right that scouting and vision is very strong and rewarding. But in soviets case all scouting/ vision abilities are behind muni/vet or both or behind a toggle with downsides.
Only the m3 isent and comes close the 222 with none of these downsides but its incredebly easy to kill and isent used nearly at all anymore.
the whole it cost 30muni is weak justification. which flare and recon planes don't?
in the era when the concerns is back on sight abilities like spotting scopes, specs ops and sniper sight, it's cheeky that sov mortar was missed
even sov sniper needs vet to unlock flare, yet a more durable mortar unit got away
as i said, because of how low key flare graphical representation is, most opponents don't know what hits them in late game
whenever i play sov, i am very very happy to deploy mortar flare, such a cheeky give away
sov mortar is better than ost mortar, there i said it. what's cb going to do? hit back at katy?