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The better the german player is, it will always revolve on who is better with sniper-countersnipe play. It was shown during the tournament and this is what i see on automatch.
Nades are useless against anyone who can bunny hop from buildings. Flame carrier delays your heal and gets easily countered by moving your units and fast 222. AEC can lose to double 222. Piats won't do shit against anyone who can kite.
Centaur might have more of a shock value, but for just a little more you've a Cromwell.
ATM it feels like the same situation we had with the release of USF. Upgrades and midgame units (bar AAHT/M20) were not worthy in comparison to just going M20 > Sherman.