Profile of Cruzz

bounces pretty much every german AT shot until panthers or heavy call-ins and can duke it out with a P4 when it switches guns (will lose slightly)

Should I point out that a StuG is more likely to penetrate a KV8 than a t34 is to penetrate a PIV?.

It doesn't lose "slightly" against a PIV, even if you just duke it out sitting next to each other shooting (rather than, you know, circling around the much slower kv8) the PIV will still have half health left by the time it finishes with the KV8. And the PIV is a much cheaper, faster and versatile unit.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The KV8 is, in a vacuum, an overpowered unit (almost purely because of retarded flame mechanics, which also affect other units like the flameht. Just those units are relatively soft compared to KV8). It's stuck in two relatively bad commander trees and is a slow pure anti-infantry vehicle for the faction that is far more reliant on fuel for antitank of the two. I see more games lost because the soviets make an KV8 when what they really need is an AT unit, than I see won by one showing up.

Breaking down your points

1. Yes, and it's problematic.
2. It isn't. Personally I find it less challenging than Langreskaya.
3. Doubt. Grens are marginally better than conscripts.
4. Mauls M3s, yes, can also be killed by 1 mine, an AT nade + small arms fire... the vet gain on it does seem too quick right now but other than that it's fine.
5. Except ZiS guns, mines and AT nades.
6. PAKs are pretty bad. ZiS is alright.
7. Protip: point the AT guns at the P-IV.
8. Not rewarded enough, yes; worthless, no.
9. ...

2. Semoskiy is better early game (thanks to the larger size of the map, the buildings and cover and generally very tight paths so mine kills can be relatively easy to score). It's worse than Langres late game for much the same reasons. On langres you need to survive until late game, on Semoskiy you need to win before late game. While maintaining a reasonable grip on the map in both scenarios.

3. It's not really even a marginal advantage, they very consistently beat conscripts in a straight out shootout (nevermind if the grenadiers pull out a riflenade). Occasionally lucking out and taking out a weak second squad like a combat engineer seems about on par.

4. Except after vet2. Also small arms fire is pretty ineffective against the scout car as they have a less than 10% chance to penetrate on any given attack. Think of how effective conscript dps is against an MG42 team, and then think what it would be like if they only did one tenth of it. Even if you land an at nade it can be extremely hard sometimes to kill the scout car if it was facing your way when it got atnaded because of the relatively high armor value.

5. & 6. As a Soviet player, I'd ALWAYS give a ZiS in order to get a PaK. The fabulous antitank ability on vet1 PaKs and the faster reload speed are both worth far more than the stupid munition sink ability on the ZiS.

7. Protip: Move PIV, it moves faster than the ZiS repositions. Also you can smoke if it looks like the ZiS might actually damage you.

8. It's pretty worthless because running a flank on an MG42 just puts you in the position where you now have to micro that conscript squad for the next 30 seconds-1 minute while avoiding the mg42 instant pin and several squad deaths that follow. It's still better than the alternative of just running into the arc and getting pinned, but considering the effort involved it doesn't really seem worth it to try and flank with 'scripts. Better leave it to penals and guards who can nade/satchel MG42s for a pretty much guaranteed kill.

I'm sure Relic should be aware of this. Any other abilities that STILL have this stupid bug?? Glad riflenade was fixed though.

Shock nades don't refund or reset either if you cancel midthrow.

Try playing as Germans and don't make MG's and see how it works out for you.

Answer: It works quite well. Grenadiers are still stronger than conscripts for cost at vet0, and god help conscripts after the grenadiers start getting vet or lmg42s. Massed grenadiers have even less counters to them than massed MGs.

It does require a bit more effort as with MG42s you can just attack move straight to their base and be more or less guaranteed results.

8) Soviets Mines are cheaper then German mines, why?

Because they're weaker? Soviet AT mine is 200 damage and engine damaged (destroyed on critical), teller is 500 damage with engine destroyed (dunno if it gets an additional effect on critical). S-mines work rather differently than at mines so their cost is relatively irrelevant, the s-mines have a far higher casualty potential and are harder to get rid of, but take longer to setup, leave a visible mark on the battlefield and won't oneshot if player doesn't walk over multiple explosions (40 damage per explosion so need a minimum of two to kill full health infantry)

Has to do with where it hits the building, as in how much of the building is within the AoE, as in how much net dmg it takes.

Nothing to do with criticals.

So you're telling me that a single riflenade does enough damage to collapse a church as long as you aim properly, while the church can take 20-30 atgun rounds or 2 demolition charges without collapsing normally?