No, I said frontline . . . HFF has been out . . . what 30 or more years by the time this was designed? This is supposed to slug it out, HAS to slug it out to get into its own weapon range, as such it needs every bit of protection it can get. I do not know the specifics of hardened but perhaps that would be a better choice than HFF for the Hanse.
You will also notice the last bit was about the sum of the shortcomings- short ranged main gun, slow for the main gun, no turret with low speed causing facing issues, and frontline unit designed for battle line not using best armor all add up to making the Hanse a bad choice.
As an aside, we could point to the design IMO it was patterned after which is the Clan's Athena . . . which does but perhaps should not have a turret since the main guns are not located in the turret. But it also has a TC and seven hexes more of range for the pair of BFGs.