now with leig fix guards are good vs only OKW. They are not viable in other mutchup because of sniper. In general this unit is strongest unit in the game by far. Week 8 finals g3 - 43 kills including sniper before it was killed cuz of poor protection only. Just randomly killed.
The probem is that nothing kills well used sniper. Nothing reveals it even.
Btw my bad its not a trick to sell comanders but that sniper+222 combo is really strong now even.
Soviets have many counters to sniper. Mortar is a soft counter, flanking is a soft counter, tanks are soft counter, aggressive mines can be a counter. The only hard counters tho are scout car which dies to fast after 5 minutes and soviet sniper. T1 is weak so ppl don't get sniper for counter snipe. I think soviets have the least amount of problems with dealing with sniper + 222 combo because they have everything they need to counter it and large squad sizes.
And yes guards are awesome.