I am very disappointed by the animation of the explosion of a satchel charge, they blow up with a little light bright spark and thats it, no smoke, no pieces flying arround it hardly looks or feels like an explosion, compared to the heavy grenade of the soldier. In fact the explosion does not reflect the power of a satchel charge at all

Does it do some decent damage? I havn't used it yet and would like to know.

I does damage like an engineer's mine, I believe...I'm not sure. But you can stack two for are definite kill.

That sounds disappointing

They are indeed highly disapointing.

They are big and bulky, they blow up due to grenade and gun shoots even more easily then mines.

They don't activate instantly.

I can without a doubt say its the most useless skill my soldier has.