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There is no reason why a heavy tank should dominate the battlefield or be more resistant to long range tank destroyers. I think it is a leftover of the heavy call-in meta where everyone got the idea that a heavy tank is what your army should be built around. Tiger should be just that - a heavy tank. One of the options. You have 78 more popcap in your arsenal to supplement it with other units, including the best handheld AT which decimates dedicated enemy tank destroyers.

A Tiger is not too slow for its class, it has really good frontal armour, requires no teching, and its gun packs a really good anti infantry and antitank punch. What else do you want from it? To be more survivable against its hard counters?

If you feel the Tiger isn't worth its resource cost, don't go for it. Wehrmacht has a strong core army and a wide selection of commanders. But I guarantee you lots of players will still use the Tiger.

You just can't use it with impunity if someone invests heavily in end-tier tank destroyers (Su85, FF, M36). And this is precisely as it should be, IMO.

Tiger can't hunt cuz hes too slow. Just soaks up damage then crawls back for age long repairs.

A unit needs weaknesses. Speed is the Tiger's.

Tiger was nerfed for a reason. It was so good as to be a no-brainer. Its vulnerability to Jacksons and Fireflies is a good thing, it means there is no "top of the food chain". You could argue it gets penetrated too well for the relative cost, and I can see that as a valid concern; but please keep in mind who does the penetrating (nudge nudge). It's easy to rail on Jacksons but they come in a faction that has the weakest AT gun penetration-wise, and no equivalent of Stug or Panther (with a single commander that has a Pershing).

On the other hand the Su85 comes in a faction that has no medium other than t34/76, and no worthwhile handheld AT (admittedly with some call-ins to mitigate that situation)

Tiger I comes with a faction that has:
- the best AT gun
- Dual panzerschrecks
- StuG
- Panther

And all of that nondoctrinally. You could argue that this doesn't impact the tiger but the first mistake of balance is comparing units in a vacuum. The reason heavies were reduced in popcap and moved back is so that you can more easily support them with other units.

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Allied whiners will never be satisfied until OKW has no Panzerschreks.

And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling Sturms.

But seriously, now that the Rwerfer is getting a buff, and with a faction that has Pumas, Jagdpanzers and Panthers, is there really need for such a powerful handheld AT?

Because PIATs are so awesome that you see PIAT blobs all the time absolutely wrecking poor German tanks, I mean, I can't COUNT the number of threads complaining about double PIAT blobs. And who can forget the (doctrinal) PTRS, the bane of the Kingtiger, crusher of Panzer IVs? /s