By golly I've 7/0d in a bt7m but i can never seem to kill anything in with the sahariano. The sahariano is wide and lightly armored for its size going up agaisnt tanks it cannot reliably pen. Most of the starting italian tree is pretty poor to actually use in battle (i regularly preform better in the autoblinda 41, a reserve vehicle, than the "2.3" m1341). I love my customized l3 and the rare times i get a kill i cheer but they are pretty rare :(
Thats exactly my thinking too. I spend matches non penning panzer 3s in realistic. The aircraft i have 0 complaints with.
Please let me know if Italian ground gets better! If it's just a struggle early I might decide to suffer through it.