Comet and Firefly? If so, it's because:
The Comet has NO PROJECTILE. What you're actually seeing is a tracer FX, same as for small arms fire. Tracers have no physical collision, so if the Comet's shot misses and scatters, the scattered tracer cannot collide with anything and trigger a hit, even if the tracer collides with the same tank because the scatter distance wasn't enough to completely avoid it. |
Pen to 160/140/120, damage to 100, reload to 3 seconds.
Done 
Penetration to 160 / 140 / 120, Damage to 120, Cost to 250, Vet 1 to Sprint.
How's that? |
How did OKW made it through the Alpha the way it did? Why was the old Tiger Ace apparently not playtested? There appears to be method to the madness. 
They were much stronger in the alpha, so often times they didn't really get a chance to stand up to German Heavy's, the Germans would be dead before that point could be reached. |
Soviets never got M3, so why would they get it?
Placeholder is more likely if you want to speculate on that.
Relic will probably just rename it to M5 for the Soviets. Not like the current M5 is actually an M5 anyway, it's just the M3 from vCoH with new texture and the canvas cover removed. A real M5 has no bolts and rounded corners:
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ps: You don't need a hardcounter for everything the enemy can field.
That's a terrible way to look at things, and leads to poor balance. |
That doesn't change the fact that they are still oddly implemented. Emplacements should be passively very powerful against indirect fire and more easily dealt with by common ground troops.
So the counter to the Bofors should be Infantry? Wouldn't that make the Bofors walk a fine line either useless, or indestructible? |
The USF M3 Half-Track has a 'Soviet' state, and it removes all the stowage on the model. I'm guessing they're replacing the Soviet M5 Half-Track model with that.

Well, nice find! Do they have the Quad Mount modeled for it too? |
I love how relic nerfed german mortar but not german mortatHT in preview patch. More meta for meta god!
They nerfed the Mortar's rate of fire. The Mortar Half-Track already had a slower rate of fire. |
The carrier is already the most expensive early light vehicle out of all factions, imo it wouldn't hurt to give it a little utility with self repair.
It's also the most mobile light vehicle in the game, the turn rate and acceleration are amazing. If it gets fausted, that means you weren't paying attention to it. |
Cheap MP teching and a Bren buff vs sniper are welcome changes. imo though the bren should get the vet 1 ability stock, every other faction has access to early repairs with engies.
It really doesn't take long for them to get Engineers out. Sure they don't start with them, but they're not too far from reach. |