Yep the first 2 Assaulters in all my Assault squads carry 1 smoke grenade. I used to give them each 2 smokes but reduced it to 1 each since having 4 smokes between them tends to be overkill I think.
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They nerfed smoke grenade radius since the High Caliber update. The only smoke worth using is 75 mm smoke shell fired from a tank.
Smoke is like engravings, they provide no tactical advantage whatsoever, why waste time when you can just kill the enemy, like if you’re in a tank, why would you blind the mg defending the point when you could just turn him into a red mist
Simple, to try and stop team mates and bots from being insta gibbed because they are useless and cant deal with the heavy mg or tank pointed at their spawn.
When theres only 1 threat, sure kill it. But when theres 1-2 tanks (or tanks you cant pen), a couple of heavy mgs and you team is so useless they cant deal with any of them, smoke can get them past the killzone or buy you sometime to pick up the slack
But hey, to each his own
Of course you use HE vs a machinegun, but I’ll use smoke in front of a T-34 when all I have is a Pz-IVE…while I’m reversing…!
don’t tell me that isn’t a tactical advantage!! 
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Same. I used to run a radio squad primarily for smoke. Kills were nice, but it was being able to obscure points that are tough to approach on the attack that made them worthwhile. First they nerfed smoke to be nearly useless and then increased the cooldown. No point to run them for me now. If I have a mortar squad running (rare) I’ll put out some smoke. I even more rarely use tanks (so no point to discuss smoke shells) and see no use in today’s smoke grenades.
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All my assault squads have at least 1 guy with 2 smoke grenades. He pops before moving through a dangerous area. For premium squads I sacrifice the extra med kits for just 1 extra smoke. It’s so valuable.
My para squad tactic is typically:
Drop on the flank, 120-180m from the point.
Grab mortar and engineer kit.
Build spawn point.
Send HE rounds for both mortar dudes to clear the point a bit.
Send smoke for both mortar dudes. (usually look at the map and fire them between where I see most teammates and the point, with some of them on the point itself.)
then either:
build MG if there is a good position.
OR
Rush in when I see others do the same.
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