Do yourself a favour and get lost. In general the allies are better at short range engagements then the axis who favour long range battles. because of that the assault engineers are more viable then sp's. And he is right you know. counter his arguments or piss of.
There is no need to counter his 'argument' because his argument is an utter bullshit which comes from him(or you as you back him up on it) not having the slightest clue what DPS curves are and how to actually read them.
Shocks(or SMG units in general) do NO damage outside of their effective range.
Assault rifle units(which SPs are) still do damage outside of their close range, it drops faster then that of a rifles, but it is INCOMPARABLY HIGHER then that of SMG units on pretty much ALL ranges above 10.
Arguing that assault engies are better then sturmpios because their dmg dropoff starts bit later is completely out of place argument that goes against the stats and common sense, because by the time AEs get in effective range, SPs can already drop a model or deal heavy damage, but we're already used to that coming from you or sierra.