Very much agree on the lack of tech. Each game now seems to just be a wait for callins. :/
Yep.
For germans Tigers are so good and easily affordable that its plain stupid to not go for them,
For soviets, default T3/T4 doesn't cut it, especially now that IS-2, T-34/85 perform so well and if you want to get them you need to forgo teching anyway to afford them.