Profile of Plaguer

Used to do this back in the day, haven't been using this build in a looooong time: 4x Ostruppen, MG42, T2, 2 paks, 2 PzGrens with shreks, T4 and brummbär

This was a trolly build but got your opponent by surprise thinking that he can come through the amount of AT you had with only infantry but that's what the Brumm is there for

This completely depends on the situation, if your opponent(s) don't have a JT or Ele commander the ISU is very safe but taking it when your opponent does have one of those commanders is risky if you allow them to know you're going for that commander, because of this I prefer you to have another commander with shock troops to hopefully juke your opponent to believing that you've taken the other commander eg shock rifle frontline tactics

But overall as a good ol' fashioned con spammer that I am I prefer the Advanced Warfare, having PPsH cons go up the front with Su-85s to provide direct at and T34/85s to flank the opponents tanks is almost unstoppable

The main difference between these commanders is that Advanced Warfare is very mobile and allows for flanking and other cheeky movement and the Shock motor is more stationary, sitting behind the ISU, allowing it to wipe squads and hit vehicles and wait for a good opening to attack

These two are very different from each other and the only thing that these commander have in common are assault troops, pretty hard to compare because of the high amount of differences, but..

TL;DR: Shock motor if you need something to break the line and want to be campy, Advanced Warfare if you want a mobile army

Back in the day when it was able to shoot through obstacles without the ability it was complete bs, but right now it's not op at all

I never even use the ability to shoot through obstacles because it's completely broken, sometimes it refuses to fire through houses and once in a while it completely refuses to fire at anything, even without anything in the way

I agree on the base defenses, it's stupid that you can't chase anything in their base, unless you have a IS2

*Online against randoms.

Unless you mean that Shreck blobs are so fundamental to axis playstyle that it needs to remain the same, or that the LeIG guns range and accuracy is fine just the way it is, so on and so forth then I fail to see how you can't agree with my points.

Believe it or not I didn't just cherry pick features that would benefit my faction but opted for the ones that are completely broken within the games design and even relics own 'goal'. How do I know this? I'm a games designer

OKW having no need to build dedicated AT platforms or AA with the ability to destroy tanks and aircraft is complete and utterly broken. That, you don't need to play as Axis to see.

Edit: For example, what is wrong with my observation of stun grenades killing as well as stunning units? Even the description states it just stuns (iirc)...

"Nope"

Being a game designer doesn't mean that you instantly know these changes are good, maybe make a mod and test it out since you got the skills I recon

But for the real part, you're not seeing both sides of this thing, you're seeing everything from the allied point of view, these things are completely different from the axis point of view, I can just go on saying that "Maxims are op because they stop inf, they should be nerfed to the ground because I can't blob" because I don't realize that they're a must for the faction currently

Go and play around 100 games as both ostheer and okw proof that these changes are needed

Su85 and Katyusha are fine, Axis counterparts are a little stronger so no need for changes there, we don't want to power creep, well microed Su85 with some vet is going to change the game, same goes for all of the other tank destroyers

Think if Lelic buffed Pumas anti inf to AECs level because the puma isn't that good? That wouldn't be good, if a unit is too strong, don't buff the counterparts, just nerf the units that are overpreforming, simple