masochism maybe? I mean HELLO, 80MM of armor?!
UNSLOPED, I might add.
Not that the sloping would help, got ammoracked frontally by a 1940 T-34 in a Hetzer. Might have been the lower plate though, as I was reversing down a slope.
Another instance was when I was reversing a Hetzer in a 30 degree angle away from the shooter. Didn't stop that T-34 1942 from shooting me. I thought the hetzers side armor would be quite well sloped for those situations.
But then there are those 6-kill-streak simulator battles that remind me why the Hetzers gonna Hetz: the gun is pretty good, same as on the Pz IV H and Jagdpanzer IV.