The main problem is not only it will pretty much have no chance barring godlike RNG, neither will the rest of the tier, so then its AT matter is stuck with "I can get five 76s for their 4 IVs". And obviously, it wouldn't make all that much sense for the T-70 and M5 to be able to pick up the AT slack, so unfortunately Soviet T3 is basically entirely based around cheesing the enemy with hopeful squad wipes.
With the whole soviet restructuring rumor going around I hear the su76(which is being buffed) and t70 are being swapped as well as other things. But besides that. The t34/76 hardly needs a combat buff, but more a cost decrease that somehow doesn't affect its timing, because its already the earliest medium on the field, while the p4 gets some slight penetration buffs. The t34/76 already does pretty well against p4s considering the fuel difference in comparison to p4 vs eazy 8 and t34/85 that cost 20 fuel more but blow it out of the water. Hence why vet 2 is absolutely necessary on the p4 for it to even bother competing with e8s and 85s.
If you can't keep your first p4 alive to reach vet its an utter waste of resources and you were better off just going t2 straight to tigers or panthers. If the first p4 is lost its a huge set back for ostheer, ostheer in general suffers the most from lost units than any other faction, and they have the games easiest squads to 1 shot wipe. Compared to US and okw who have more manpower to deal with and then the russians who have never even had to worry about squad wiping at all except in the most uncommon scenarios. Speaking of squad wipes thats all Ive noticed. As you climb the ladder and starting fighting the top 200, the whole strategy of both sides is too abuse anything that squad wipes. In general, 120s, isu152s, sturmtigers for taking out support crews and stukas, as well as the passive soft squad wipers which the majority are on the allied side(105 shermans, m8 nuke vehicle, demoes, shit like crashing planes). Regardless of any actual strategy these units are the most effective types in the game because they require little skill with a ton of payout. This is why I am currently not even playing the game.
If you haven't noticed I main ostheer so I feel the brunt of it all. As soviets, my individual units are weaker, but combined they are strong and even if I don't win the fight its easy as shit to wipe squads as soviets so its simple to wear down the enemy.
Horrible features horrible balance. Fix squad wiping first FFS BEFORE WORRYING ABOUT other units.
This kind of turned into a rant sorry. But what relic is doing is inexcusable, they fuck up the game and disappear. Fucking idiots.