Profile of drChengele

I'v never had my ISG's one shot a squad unless they had 1 or 2 models left, so either you're lying or the RNG gods hate me.

Don't worry, the "ISG one-shotting vetted squads" thing does not happen. The ISG destroys the team WEAPON (mg, mortar, at gun), which results in a squadwipe. People have a habit of reinforcing, but not fixing, their team weapons such as MGs, AT guns etc.

It's like having a Panther with 1% health, not fixing it, encountering a t34, and coming to the forum to complain "wtf t34 oneshotted my vet3 Panther omg nerf Relic plz!".

Even in the chaos that is 4v4s, fielding even a single JT per player is not easy. There are opportunity costs. Fielding more than one is very difficult, especially if you want to also have stuff like Pumas, Stukas or Panthers during the game. It's like a billion regular faction fuel to field six of thjem, even if you built nothing fuel related all game (impossible, of course). Not to mention the loss of flexibility coming from multiple players picking the same faction/doctrine combo.

All that said, compare Jagdtiger with King tiger, Elefant or ISU cost for cost and you see that something is wrong. Especially with the well established problem of callins ignoring teching costs.

I speak as an old fart CoH1 veteran. I played CoH1 and CoH2 multiplayer side by side for a while and three things immediately popped out for me in CoH1:

Infantry / support crew combat was much better in 1, more fluent and important, all the way through to the late game.
There was a lot less soft counters. When armoured cars rolled onto the field you either had dedicated antitank or were dead. In 2 you can make do with antitank grenades, fausts, and even small arms the scout cars to death.
Tanks felt incredibly sluggish and the whole tank combat aspect was a bit anemic. Tanks were more like slow lumps of hit points. AT gun shells plopped some health and there was no "oomph" overall.
And then the opposing players started rolling out snipers and I remembered how annoying and broken their Romulan Cloke Field mechanic was and I uninstalled the game. I will much rather face Russian 2 man squads any day of the week, thank you.

I think if you got run over by this thing you would die.

Yes, that is realistic. I agree completely.

But if you're going down that road, a single bullet from a rifleman through a windshield should decrew the truck and make it abandoned. Please allow the allies to capture the decrewed truck then and deploy it and build OKW units. Then the heavy people crush can stay.

If they can't be buffed against infantry for whatever reason, make them work better against tanks. No, really.

If not damage-wise, well, they are high explosive, aren't they? Make them inflict criticals instead of damage : regardless of penetration, inflict crew shock, or even a chance at engine damage / gun damage, why not? That way any criticals will be repaired quickly (low damage), but it will still punish camping your Ele/ISU in one spot.

It would reward combined arms (criticals on their own don't mean anything if you don't follow up with an actual attack), spotting / prediction (it will reward you if you know where the heavies are waiting), punish camping, and facilitate rushes against heavies (even a crew shock would actually open up a window to rush an Ele with tanks, let alone a gun damage or an engine damage). Even after ISU/Ele are nerfed I would like Kats and Werfers to have a bit better AT role. There is no punishment for blobbing tanks at the moment except a few doctrinal airstrikes.

Maybe it is unrealistic for the rockets to damage tanks (not sure - isn't top armour of tanks usually paper thin)?