Holy shit, dedicated tank destroyers can do penetrate tanks... Need to re work them into tank fail to destroyers
I'm starting to get annoyed with these kinds of arguments. Yeah, its a TD. And? I'd want to see an SU-76 fight something like a Maus and a T-54 and penn every time because its a TD so it'll magically penn everytime.
ATM, its essentially a TD/Assualt that has decent AI due to barrage that comes rather early in the game as well. Gameplaywise - its bad if it can last into lategame if heavy tanks are sent in. If SU-76s were to flank heavy tanks/Panthers and kill them that way, I'd be okay with that. But penning frontally is a big problem. For instance, the KT in VCoH couldn't be killed reliably by a pack M10s or M18s from the front. But if they flanked the KT, then it would be killable. I think these kind of mechanics are good for the game.
If you want a video example this is one
If you want history
And okay, if you want to talk about history, well okay, German Guns were far more accurate and harder hitting than the SU-76 in real life. At normal combat ranges, Panthers and Tigers can easily kill SU-76s at a further range than the SU-76 can even kill Panthers and Tigers. Yes, the game isn't balanced around history but at the same time there's what's reasonable and what's not. You don't see Luchs killing IS's from the front.
Plus, when it comes to shells, there's a tradeoff between AI and AT. The higher velocity the gun, the better the AT performance, but that means that you can't pack enough HE into the shells so the AI performance is reduced.
Oh and for the record, I don't think heavy tanks being stunned anymore is a good idea, esp when you're limited to one heavy tank in a game. Stunning heavy tanks was a mechanic more designed for when you could field multiple heavy tanks than one. Relic are making big changes to the gameplay without adjusting what the role of the unit was designed for in the first place.
If the pennetration was nerfed for the SU-76, I wouldn't not mind if to counter that nerf, a camo ability was placed on the SU-76. That, after all, was one of the advantages of the SU-76 in the war anyway.