Thanks for the compliment basilone, but I'm going to have to disagree with youI didn't really mean that dodging grenades is the only thing you need to do well, but that microing is the most important skill to have and nade dodging is just one of the more difficult things to micro. Unit preservation does matter too, but that just comes naturally with micro and awareness.I do think that squad losses are not punished enough, however to say that it's all about dodging nades...
What you do with your shock units is still incredibly important. Losing lynchpin units like the german HT or soviet AT gun in the mid game can cost you the game. What happens to that first t34/PIV, the choice between a pak and a PGren, etc etc all make huge differences in who wins.
As far as strategy goes its almost non existent compared to what there was to consider in vcoh. Very few unique doctrines, counterpicking is almost completely dead since you can't even identify them anymore, and teching is extremely linear and predictable. I remember once upon a time a decent strat guide accounted for almost every contingency and the way you played it could vary greatly from game to game. Now its just a doctrine with a list of units, with the only variable being the order in which you buy certain things.