Which is countered by sending infantry ahead, recon planes, flares and common sense
So... you're saying players on the tournament didn't had common sense?
Because vehicles pretty often chased squads for wipes without any infantry, flares or recon planes ahead.
They didn't go balls deep all the time, but they did overextend often, backing only when infantry was in sight.
Any AT package? I'm pretty sure against tanks a single schreck does equal or better. Try attacking Tiger with two PTRS squads and see how "fantastically" they perform at their job while having AI equal to combat engie with minesweeper
No idea why you two just won't directly say "remove snipers from the game" as that's pretty much what you both said.
Its bad unit for game like coh, but current ones aren't going anywhere, not getting changed in such drastic way that removes their role, because no one needs 1 man direct fire mortar team.