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The reason why soviet sniper strategies are not and will not be meta in high level 2v2 play is twofold.

Firstly, building a sniper gives you a disadvantage in the early game when aggressively establishing map control is most important. If you've built one early, your opponents will have more infantry than you and can end up over-running your position. I get your point about early game map control not being the be-all and end all, composition is also important. But having more resources than your soviet opponent gives you loads of options to counter whatever he has - getting early armour like ostwinds to keep up pressure on the map, upgrading your infantry, mining the shit out of chokepoints, building bunkers, building an artillery piece to hammer him as he tries to come out of his base...

The second reason is that the ostheer mortar is currently dictating the 2v2 meta, from what we've seen from the limited games so far in the Ultimate Team Tournament. Players like Barton are spamming these and sniper play offers no solution to them. Mortars wipe snipers from behind cover with alarming regularity. Not only do mortars wipe snipers, they can also allow your infantry to easily flank and kill them using smoke barrages.

That's not to say that snipers are useless, but they are a more difficult and risky playstyle in 2v2 than simply opting for conscripts - t2 - light vehicle play.

You'll trade more efficiently with Falls if you can close the distance safely with Bar Rifles. You could do that by using mortar/sherman smoke or using rear echelons as meat shield up front. As an expensive 4 man squad Falls are also very vulnerable to explosives - sherman HE, M8 Scott, Pack howie, mines etc.

username: Colonel0tto
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I think a link to a testing video would be very useful for this kind of thread. Not trying to disparage your claims but it would serve to back them up.

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