I don't see Soviet snipers that much, but I definitely see a German sniper at least in 1/2 of the games I play, and it's annoying to kill with infantry because it disappears almost instantly after shooting.
I don't see what the problem is with the Soviet sniper...
The German sniper has better survivability until a Soviet sniper hits the field(which I don't see often)
You guys are just expecting hard counters for everything. The German sniper is much better but sacrifices the ability to countersnipe.
I mean, the German sniper fires faster, never misses, and is always camoed.
I agree with the points addressed here, removing the insta damaged engine AT nades/fausts removed some tactics from the game like slowing down a Panther/KV-8 to shoot it with AT gun.
The T-34 ram is pretty useless now. If I don't capture even one fuel point, I end up getting rushed by Panthers with no sticky bombs to slow them down or rams to temporarily remove one from the field.
Mines work great, until they pull back 50 meters and get repaired in 10 seconds by pios.
Yeah, it's kinda flawed, but the KV-8 is slow as hell when fausted, and the Pak gains vet in a couple of shots so combined with HEAT round I think you can do a bit of damage to it.
I don't know about very well supported KV-8s, but I found that fausting a KV-8 and then finishing it off with a Pak and HEAT round is pretty good as the Pak gets vet in a couple shots.