Infantry Against Tanks 1941

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Not a clue on the historical aspects of Molotovs, but was interested in the gameplay aspects of this, so I ran a quick test:

Soviet vet inf. platoon, in buildings close around a Panzer IIIJ. First couple times, armed the Sov's with 4 Molotovs apiece, and let them have at it. After absorbing 20 Molotovs over about a turn and a half, the Panzer was generally routed, sometimes had lost a crewman, once was GD'ed, but was never knocked out by a Molotov.

Then I ran the same trial, with the Sov's having grenades, but no Molotov's. The first trial, the tank was KO'ed in 11 seconds. The rest were pretty similar in their results.

So if you are facing armor, you are, as MR suggests, probably much better off with your troops sipping from their Molotovs and hucking grenades (I'm not sure if there's a hotkey for that).

Also worth noting - troops that are supressed to any degree become extremely reluctant to use AT weapons.