The FPS part of the game is a little run of the mill/hamster wheel kind of play.. but still, to me, more fun than the other super snazzy fancy graphics FPS games...
getting a good spot, hull down, using angles.. even t34s can take out tigers and panthers if they're used right.. or survive more than a few hits when you're angled right

a good driver or gunner (if you feel like teaming up with someone) can work wonders as well
come to think of it, I've only been spawn camped a few times.. and that was just on one or two maps that weren't made too well.. and maps that aren't made too well and have promise are usually picked up by someone that knows how and they'll make whatever changes to the map to make it more suitable to the community... if a map sucks it's simply not used on servers and it fades away
all in all.. as far as tanking goes.. it blows AH away (don't get offended you guys.. we all know the focus of AH is in the air and not on the ground).
One thing I really like is you won't see servers with mixed tank sets like you would in AH... no tigers shooting at a mix of IS2's and panthers.. or t34s fighting along side a panzer III's... it's purely allies against axis.