Don't act like reversing ST behind lines is a disadvantage becasue AVRE can shoot faster. It can only in theory but very often you will have AVRE ready to fire even for few minutes becasue there won't be good target, or enemy saw you and you needed to pull back etc.
Just like artillery don't shoot right after cooldown is off becasue you need proper target, therefore very often you are ready to fire, but you don't do it.
As for the AVRE it suffers from large trees. Very often, when you are trying to use vision blockers, you sneak behind the trees and fire, shell will smash on the highest tree. That's absurd when you think that AVRE need to sneak becasue you can't shoot from fog of war.
And there are many trees on many 2v2 maps which can stop AVRE and you will suffer heavily from this since your enemy already knows you have AVRE without any casualities becasue you just smashed you shell on a tree.
For example, quite recently on Minsk, OKW kept 3 ISGs next to south fuel and next to the trees on the lest side (closer to base).
I moved my AVRE around the whole left side of the map, sneak next to ISG (just trees between us) and fired. All 3 ISGs were so clumped that all would have died but no, shell exploded at the very top of the largest tree.
I will post a screen in a minute so you can figute out what I mean.
This time shell smashed the trees right after firing, but every often, shell will fly in the air and explode when hit tips f the trees (red circles).
