The ZiS gun barrage does only 80 damage compared to the SU-76's 120.
It still have worse scatter and 3x longer cooldown.
....it cost's munitions to barrage with a Jadgtiger (which only fires a few shells and does 40 more damage than an SU-76 barrage.)
Since reading is hard, let me write again:
Another reason, not a single vehicle with
default barrage option have a cost attached to it, which only makes it consistent.
Last time I checked, JT didn't had barrage as default skill, but a vet one.
obviously doing 120 damage which can easily 1 shot or kill a squad with a direct hit for free on a mobile fast platform is just preforming low.
AI barrage kills infantry, confirmed OP.
More news at 11.
Unless you bunched up and were killed with first shot, there is NO reason or way that anyone with most basic awareness would be touched by the barrage.
none of those things also can fight enemy heavies, mediums or most armor in general. like why would you even compared a dedicated artillery vehicle to a TD.
Sturmtiger can.
Also, SU-76 is a hybrid of AT gun and dedicated artillery.
Just like it was used historically.
It can do both, but for both there are better options, katy got much better barrage, SU-85 while bit up atm is much better TD.