you are right, just another #justaxisthings ...
funny thing is, for a faction that is based around the "smoke and flank" concept, doing so will put your units in great danger, while the defensive faction get almost no problem in doing so.
in CoH1 this problem was MUCH bigger. If you failed to flank a MG your rifles would just get wiped on retreat since the MG damage and accuracy was insane.
