If there are three units attacking, you should have another 2 units supporting the maxim. As has been said many times about the MG42 - you need to support your support weapons. Keep them at range.
Also, your quad halftrack shouldn't be in range of shreks. it's like me saying my Luchs got taken out just by four zookas. If you kite, you have a good chance of surviving and pinning them.
Thanks.
They just kill the Maxim and retreat to a forward retreat truck and come back in no time.
Yes they can be stopped, but the effort to do so is greater the effort of blobbing them.
Those blobs are also very mobile and can assault quickly any part of the battlefield. The larger the map the hardest it become to stop them.(Add just a recon plan and they will know where to attack.)
In the starting phase is you don't build some Hmgs, Axis will bully you (especially OKW). But by building HMGs, you are becoming static and vulnerable to indirect fire...and so on.