Not excellent, but OK imo. Extremely awkward to use (makes any flank a challenge) + it is relatively slow.
Its timing is indeed pretty good, but it becomes hard to use once medium armor hits the fields. If I had to choose between t34/76 and hetzer, I'd pick t34 any day of the week. Thankfully OKW has access to an actually excellent piece of armor called Panzer IV J
Lmao can you read my starting post?
The medium tank """"""""""""meta"""""""""""" that says you should go for a medium tank like P4J or Shit34 to upspike your power is useless to me. And because most people go for that I win 95% of my games with ease.
Having a battlegroup with 2 raks, 3 volks and 1 Hetzer can actually carry you until you can pump out a proper tank (Tiger Ausf. B or if you are desperate Panzerkapmfwagen V "Panther").
The "normal" medium tanks are so microintensive and get so masstargeted by the enemy as to make them completely useless, at least in my hands. Everytime I tried to play like a cuck and rush medium tanks the enemies 2v1ed me with plenty of snares and ATGs.
So in the case of Feuerstorm doctrine, I think it is an excellent alternative. After all, OKW has good tanks but Tiger Ausb. B is THE best tank.