Soak off attacks, love or hate them and what to do?

[RERomine]

I'll pipe in as another person who uses the soaking off attacks. Every infantry unit in the area peppers a tank and then a bazooka team walks up to point blank range and POP, no more tank.

As pointed out, it is a generally a tactical error that has put a tank in that kind of position to begin with. A soaking off attack doesn't work that well if an infantry unit fires at a tank and a dozen units fire in reply.