keep in mind that the engine is not completely broken/disabled
It's an "light" engine damage
and the smoke is fine for doctrines. The only way to to block the button ability. And 40 munition to hold tanks for a few seconds is a "free" kill if there is an SU85.
Why should a T-34 be able to go head on with German tanks? It has a short cannon and kills infantry way faster. It´s also quite cheap and spammable at 280mp, 85 fuel. If you use one T-34 to combat a German tank, you are doing it wrong.
Russians imho dominate the infantry combat with huge blobs. Why can´t Germans have their better tanks?
A flanking T-34 is actually quite a good feature gameplay wise (forcing tactics instead of left click, right click) and one of the few things that´s actually realistic in this game (yeah, I did use the evil word "realism").
You can't win with an ISU-152, against an elefant in a vakuum I guess
Yesterday a soviet player, tried to ram my elefant with three T-34... all three failed
I think it's fine for a "commander ability" and it depends on which position do you place the elephant, to get a nice view
Apart from that, there can be some barriers: buildings,trees,wrecks etc.
I have went for quite a heavy gren strat before to give me more mobility and deny the flamer clown car a juicy target, still had mgs in the build but not early in bo and usually at the back to have something to fall back to, so I think this patch will not affect my gamestyle much.
There is nothing wrong with Kv 8 just get a panther or 2 p4s and your problem is solved. They die so easy to 2 p4s it aint even funny. When you see a kv8 just stop building inf. Dont be daft.Relic wanted it to be a wtf kill machine to match the op ness of the ostheer scout car and fht. You need 2 su 85s to deal with one fht or it will kill your entire army. Dealing with t70s are so easy to deal with now. In my opinion they need a massive buff. If you have a tiger you can kill a t70 in 1 and a half shots. Its so easy.
offtopic: dude you can't compare the t70 with a tiger....when hits the t70 the field and when the tiger ?!
ontoppic: Yesterday I killed a t70 with my upgunned 222.The scoutcar combined with some grens. thats all what you need