Yeah they can be pretty effective. Here in minute 21 Ratzki faces off with another German AFV - this time a stug. After simultaneous fire, Ratzki gets an immobilization while the stug's first shell ricochets off....
But the stug reloads a fraction of a second faster. Boom. Another dead T34/85...
On the infantry side, Ratzki has the upper hand in town - look at this overhead shot from the end of minute 21...
But it's hard to say Ratzki has a chance now with all the German AFV's HE shells to deal with.
Ratzki tells Joonny...
"I was wondering how long you would let me plunk away at your tanks one by one. I could be in a whole lotta hurt now."
"Most sorts of diversion in men, children, and other animals, are in imitation of fighting." - Jonathan Swift