Profile of sevenfour

Well guards are not a problem, they are actually rather sub-par considering the cost. Still, soviets are in such a dire need of AT that it is still worth taking them (depending on situation) if you go for tier 1. Even though something like a 221 can be defended just by cons + AT nades.

The problem and uncounterable nature of this strat lays entirely in snipers that just don`t have a real counter unlike all other units in the game. I mean closest you can get is probably going for MHT and spamming incediary barrage but even that is luck based and usually won`t kill both guys before retreat (2 man sniper team BS in action). Plus in that case you drain yourself of munition to prevent the manpower drain so the snipers are basically doing the dmg anyway, just indirectly and in a resource that hurts germans even more. So what does that leave you with? Lucky mortar shot or quitting the game after you spot the snipers are being (ab)used and decide you are not in the mood. GG indeed.

Get rid of the snipers Relic or make them doctrinal or at least get rid of the double man squad. And fire the guy who came up with THAT idea (I am looking at you Stefan).

Soviet snipers in general need to be looked at imo but yeah... using them in combination with a scout car is just adding insult to injury.

A long time ago I suggested that:

1) the flamer upgrade should be available only after teching to tier 3
2) if you upgrade to FHT it should not be able to reinforce anymore

Seeing the amount of early FHT abuse in the SNF only proved to me that I had been right.

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also tl;dr

I said it before and I`ll say it again.

Snipers are a flawed concept not fitting into the game (similar to Tiger Ace but in a different way). While other units do damage and can be countered, snipers insta-kill and there is no real counter, you have to pray for luck (mortar) or your opponent`s mistake to "counter" them.

This is a much bigger problem with soviet snipers as they are less susceptible to dying to RNG because of the 2 man squad. RNG is snipers` only weakness and 2 man squad further mitigates this single weakness. It also gives them the advantage in countersniping, which I wouldn`t consider to be countering btw, it`s building the same kind of unit.

Also as Cruzzi very well pointed out - soviet snipers in scout cars, what a load of BS.

Soviet snipers should be made doctrinal or nerfed.

Last but not least, I think it would be a good idea to have a limit of having max 1 sniper squad on the field at any given time, same as arty officer.