If u manage to successfully flank a maxim with grens you still have to micro like crazy cause the think turns around in a split second. Also when you're behind the maxim with your grens you seem to do hardly any damage, and you're getting killed almost as fast by the pistols of the crew members.
I agree on this, Maxims should die faster when grens get at point plank range.
Another issue I have is that the mg42 is really underperforming while garrisoned to the point that it's preferable to leave it outside if it's unsupported.
Other than that I'm happy with the maxim/mg state.
This is supposed to be a support unit, not a "spam this in the opening phase of the game" unit. It just looks plain ugly seeing people spam 3 maxims as their first units on the board.
Buildings completely negate this, plus 3maxims seriously compromise capping power and lends to be owned by ost T2 vehicles