I tried the Von Lauchert historical scenario as
German first, against the AI (extreme fog of war). This meeting engagement in the open ground of the steppes was pure butchery for the Russian.
The moving German Panther VD tanks with the 75/70 gun were picking up the Russian tanks, mostly T-34 M3 and SU-122, at over 2000 metres with a speed and accuracy that I would expect from an M-1 with modern opticals. I didn't finish
the scenario but by the time the Russian lost about 20 tanks, the Germans didn't have a single casualty.
Well, I thougth the AI was really dumb on this
one so I played the Russian.
The most interesting part was when a line of 16 Russian tanks hiding on a reverse slope moved
on a hull down position to the advancing German
tanks at about 1000 metres.
Some of them were slaughtered on the first shot
after a few seconds, the rest immediately retreated behind the slope and hardly a shot was fired from the Russian.
I did better than the AI though, after losing half of the Russian tanks I managed to kill a Panther! .
If the Panther VD 75/70 was really like that, I
wonder how the Russian could possibly survive
in open ground armor battles.