First off - This isn't a whine about the changes to the sniper team. I simply have suggestions for further changes and improvements.
As the topic suggests, this is a thread about the soviet sniper, which at least to me, appears to be moving *considerably* slower than their American and German counterparts. Is this intended? It feels rather unfair having to spend the same amount of manpower as the wehrmacht (It happens so seldom that I play Americans, that I actually cannot remember their sniper's price. Is it the same?), yet get something which performs poorer at the exact same thing.
I also feel that the marksman team is perhaps the lesser option now. It's extremely heavy on munitions, while being very, very easy to kill off. I know you're having a tough time balancing these guys, but right now their cost is just making them just so over the top not worth it. Perhaps reducing their cost, and then downgrading perhaps their artillery strike to something a bit closer to the Command Squads ability? This does perhaps make them a bit too similar though. I don't really know what kind of possibilities and limitations you have when it comes to making new kinds of artillery/mortar/incendiary/air strikes, but I at least feel that the two man team perhaps needs either something new and exciting, or something to make them cheaper and reduce their power to make up for the cost reduction.
How do other people feel about this?
P.S - I wasn't really sure whether to stick this in balance or Red Army suggestions. If the mods feel that my thread is incorrectly placed, please be so kind to move it to the correct section.