I think you misunderstood something. elchino7 clearly stated:
So only the guys standing beside the gun benefit from the green cover at most.
So if you have a 2 man Zis gun and a 2 man Raketen both would have the same cover benefits (=none). Thus would die similarly easy from tank fire, small arms.
And again you confused something. Elchino is not talking about how cover affects units, but how the covershield works. It shows what cover type the majority of the squad is in. (4men in green, 1 in red would still mean green shield.) At least that's how I understand this.
Ehm..not really, even though I didn't get original elchino point, it is actually wrong anyway.
Those manning the atg BENEFIT from cover, the point is pretty much proved by elchino own source...that atg is under grens g43 fire for 3 seconds at 5 ms range, panzer 4ms and so on, the health doesn't drop of an inch, than models move atg and get killed as they aren't behind cover anymore.
"And again you confused something. Elchino is not talking about how cover affects units, but how the covershield works. It shows what cover type the majority of the squad is in. (4men in green, 1 in red would still mean green shield.) At least that's how I understand this."
And you clearly missed me saying it's irrelevant.
The bonus of RA is given to single models in cover, and operators BENEFIT from it.
The game showing you green shield because more than half the models are in green cover is just ui.
Like elchino said, the operators drawn enemy fire frontally, and since operators are in green cover, the cover benefir whole squad.