I think it's better to remind you that UKF also happens to have constantly lowest WR in 4on4 & 3on3. (apart from 1 or 2 weeks of exception of second to the lowest!)
Smaller? Not really, especially not width wise, with the exception of Highway to Baku, which is just another blocky penis-shaped sized map, they are pretty good in that regard
Favour some factions? Well, Belgorod for Soviets seems like insta-lose to me. In highway, I guess a Brit vs Ost matchup will be hard dominated by mortar pits
Wolfheze has serious problem with sight/shot blockers looking like regular light cover bush; also the bottom base is much closer to their garrison than the bottom one; and finally its just sad that they deleted the corner towns, it was fantastic for distraction strats
On a side note, I really doubt there would be more than 1 cheater per 200 matches average in this, simply because of the extreme overabundance of 'legal maphacks'
Do you stick around corners, play in CQB, have troops ahead of it and use it mostly defensively to protect your units from blobs, only occasionaly rushing into a lonely AT when ur full health?
In that case it should work
If you get agressive, rush from max range or against multiple prepared AT guns, it dies superfast indeed
Its not a no-brainer, always get it, kind of unit, but I had mostly positive experience with it