CMRT: tank combat seems way off

[A Canadian Cat]

A while yes. It is on their list of todo for certain but it could be relatively hard thing to balance and code.

Indeed. If I recall correctly it had to do with a combination of two subtle problems: spotting - the hull down tank had a disadvantage in spotting which meant it, on average, did not get the first shot. And determining hull down status was a bit off and tall tanks (Panther and higher) were not correctly getting their "harder to spot" bonus for being hull down. I am sure it will be fixed. But remember luck plays out too and even once they are fixed it does not mean hull down will be uber safe.

There has been quite a lot of threads on the forum of German equipement being somehow unrealistically inferior but no large scale testing has been able to reliably prove these accusations.

Yeah, not only has the testing not proven them it as refuted them. I see not indication that there is any problem here other than some player's perspectives.

We have to remember that bad luck can happen in quite impressive series: In my most recent game I lost 6 su-85's and su-122's in one turn simply because for some reason my scouting infantry (and there was plenty of it) had failed to spot a pair of at-gun's in the middle of a open potato field few hundred meters away accompanied by a tiger. It could be very tempting to say that infantry spotting or even go as far as say soviet infantry spotting is somehow broken but i'm pretty sure this was just bad luck.

Yep, spot on. Bad things can happen even when you do all the right things. And lord help you if you fail to do the right thing tactically - because you will be punished.