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1). The hills' terrain is fairly open, and you can't hope to outrace the T-70s with your Panzer III & IVs. So you better set up your temporary defensive position west of the hills. With the Panzers relatively stationary, they can have easy pot shots against the T-70s which are exposed in the open hills. Besides, high & open ground is only good for spotters, snipers, anti-tanks, or if you have general fire superiority overall. In this scenario, you're mostly overwhelmed (look at those gigantic SU tank destroyers), so cover and concealment is your best friend. NOTE: Artillery is also good on higher ground, because you can use the "Z-fire super-quick artillery plotting"; but only if you know you have fire superiority, otherwise they're sitting ducks in the open.

2). Just let the AI advance toward you and exhaust itself. When the situation is stabilized enough, you can take the risk of leaving the V-hexes. But if you're still afraid of flankers and infiltrators, better leave a "mobile reserve" on your rear area, probably one or two of those infantry squads using SdKfz. Mobile reserves can quickly respond to sneak enemy units, or quickly reinforcing bad fronts.

3). You can disable the Smoke Dischargers via right-clicking the unit, and click the yellow Smoke Discharger button there. It's very annoying indeed, if you know your tanks are very powerful. But it can be very useful if your tank is mediocre or under bad situations.


But then, there is no specific set ways to win a war. It's all influenced by huge amount of variables, even more so when fighting human opponent.