I don't know, facing double sniper almost every game in 2v2 get's pretty frustrating. but soviets are pretty hopeless without snipers in teamgames and will just succumb to obers
Exactly, rectifying nonsense such as the utterly terrible Soviet non-doctrinal stuff, as well as their teching structure and their non-doctrinal armour would go a long way to making Soviets have a better chance of doing something different. As it stands now, the only reason I can think of for nerfing this combo is so that Soviet winratios go into a nose dive and force the developers to do something about the Soviet's core issues...