He's right tho. When P47s were super sick, i always brought late game FLAK HT and got it to vet 3-5 easy, didnt even bother to move it out of save cover Kappa
So bring back old CAS (commander and ability). Balance by giving both sides bullshit.
Throw in arty cover for good measure, since you can just leave the area.
Reading this thread makes me sad. Not that don't agree with the complaint, it's just that it seems like it's impossible to have a game that is both competitively balanced and fun at the same time.
Eventually, ideally, you will get lucky. Either an M20 will flank it and kill it, or your riflemen will.
Most often I find that once your riflemen have double bars, it takes only 2 seconds of sloppiness for the Wehrmacht to lose the sniper. Once you flank it with the 2x BAR rifle squad, the sniper should die.
Nothing more fun than watching a sniper live at 2 hp, after you pulled of the perfect flank.
mortar isn't an option, ost sniper has 82 hp vs 80 mortar damage, disregarding the insane RNG that comes with it.
Best bet is shotblockers, smoke and good use of the m20 (don't waste it the first time you rush the sniper, just force it off, wait for the 222 and kill that with say, 50 calls and zooka, then keep probing and hunting for an oppertunity).
And if you can, try a bunker, snipers are useless vs that.
As I said if Ost gets 5 man squads they will have to give away their faction specific strengths like tech free nades weapon upgrades very good T0 mg, op mortar etc.
Ost isnt even underpowered in current patch anyways. So what "balance" are you talking about?
Like how brits "give up" double lmg upgrades, mortar pit, t0 lv, cheap healing on the fucking field and a non-doc puma?