But when uses his tools effectively, he will get rewarded with soviet maxim.
I think player A had to invest some strategy to counter rather brainless strategy from player B is rather common and in most of times player who uses his brain will get rewarded and player who just abuse easy no-brain strategy will be punished.
Hmm and how it comes that top-players sometimes lose to exactly these strats? What you wanna tell them? "Sry mate, you didn't use your skill good enough to counter a no-brainer strat. I hope you understand that."
If you wanna beat maxim spam, you often need to pray that your enemy is a bit sloppy and loses a maxim due to late retreat so you can steal it. If the enemy never fucks up with that -and it isn't hard to keep maxims alive- it will be very hard to win because of this imo unfair advantage
.... and sometimes it IS close to incounterable, no matter what you do. For example nearly every time, maxim spam + partisans used in a 1v1 tourney was auto-win on Kholodny Ferma