Thats true, even more, when you are not expecting this strategy and both players go for a normal gren start... then they just poke away with their 2/3 snipers, forcing you to retreat all the time. Scoutcars are no counter because of the guards. Best way to counter might be a sniper of your own, but if you just blindly build a sniper in the beginning and russians use normal conscript-start your not well off either ... (in 2v2s that is)
and the shocks just mow down the rest
any better ideas than to counter this with your own sniper/ snipers?
Good sniper counter is grenadiers riflegrenade and mortar. If soviet have T1 = no maxim, no mortars, no ZiS.