My take on it, as if more were needed:

In my experience as an AT, a kit that I play about 60% of the time:
I use the AT round as an all purpose round against armor, vehicles, and yes, infantry when there is a need. The design of the weapon means that if you die from an AT round, odds are that you screwed up, and you want to blame someone.

When I kill infantry it's normally either a sniper in a static position, or someone who comes running right at me, guns blazing. Either way, they screwed up.

I simply cannot engage a target who is moving with his squadmates behind cover and concealment. First off it's damn hard to hit them, secondly, it's absoloutely suicide to do so.

Once the AT has fired, he is dead since your squad mates will immediately engage him. But again, normally the guy killed by an AT round is a lone soldier who charged into combat without looking both ways before crossing.

And this is improper usage on the part of the AT soldier?

But because we can argue that particular point forever, let's just jump right to the source, the makers of the game, and the weapon itself.

From the POE website:

The RPG-7V anti tank round for the standard AT kit is an all-purpose round. It's effective against armor as well as soft targets and infantry.

The Panzerfaust3 anti tank round for the standard AT kit is an all-purpose round. It's effective against armor as well as soft targets and and infantry.

As opposed to the pure AT pickup kits:

The RPG-7V Tandem anti tank round is the pure AT round. This kit’s only goal is to take out heavily armored vehicles such as MBT’s and APC’s.

The Panzerfaust3T anti tank round is the pure AT round. This kit’s only goal is to take out heavily armored vehicles such as MBT’s and APC’s.

If the powers that be disagree with the distinction made by the POE developers, I guess that really is up to them. I'm just not sure how using a weapon the way it was intended to be used is going against the TG spirit.

I don't understand why people have such a problem with this. We want to play the game in a realistic way, use real world tactics, use weapons the way they're used in the real world, except for when the real world occasionally annoys us? Maybe I need the argument spelled out in smaller words, or just an admin to explicitely say "because we say so".

Tempus, how is using the weapon as it is described, designed, intended and implemented not "playing the game right"? I'm not looking to pick a fight, I just don't understand the argument when it directly contradicts the way the game was deliberately designed?

Now, what you don't ever see is someone walking around with a RPG on their shoulder inside a building. It just doesn't happen. The AT rounds also have a short arming distance (5m) in real life, and that may be a more useful metric for when it's OK to use it. If the POE crew would implement that arming distance, we would also do away with the whole suicide shot issue.