agreed, I loved COH series because its not like the other lame\dumb and boring rts games where you move your army without micro management and just blob things without thinking.
Side and Rear armor hit should mean more, honestly i hardly see any difference if soemthing is being hit from the side or the rear. Also i think mines are way to weak and also cover should give a little more defense.

We need more tactical gameplay that rewards smart play more, like using cover, planning ambushes, lure the enemy into traps. etc. On lower rank its even worse. I just came back after more than a year, I did some stupid mistakes and left quite many matches and found mysefl in very low rating where the playstyle of players are super simple and dumb but still viable.

Otherwise the game is good and improved a lot, but this is the only RTS i like next to WARNO and Steel Division 2, because its not like StarCraft or AOE etc. So yeah i hope they will reward more proper micro management and smart play, building sandbags and stuff like that.