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I think it's rather indicative that a reduction in received damage from the p4 command aura is equivalent to a 5th member.

And it indicates how it is a problem.

Hi,

the following is my honest opinion. I want to have a constructive discussion about it since this is honestly how I feel about the state of the game currently. That being said feel free to ignore the obvious forum trolls answers (not calling his name).

The Axis factions do not stand a chance on an equal skill footing in 2vs2s (Brits excluded). The US and especially Soviets are overperforming.

Both Axis factions lack in most of the relevant aspects of the game.

1) Infantry: Double BARs and/ or Guards eat any infantry the Axis can muster. Even when going Jäger Inf, the US and Soviets hold an infantry advantage.

2) Support weapons:
- Maxim spam is destroying a lot of games.

3) Tank destroyers:
- 60 range TDs for Soviets and US dominate the lategame.
- Su 76 spam has reached levels where Panzer IVs lose their purpose.

4) Abilities:
- The IL-2 skillplane has become meta.

5) Other:
- Two men sniper squads also are a common annoyance in 2vs2 and kill games.

In short: The Allies can easily swarm the Axis factions with infantry, TDs keep any tank at bay and this synergy is hardly counterable for the Axis. To me it seems there is no aspect of the game Axis aren't being outperformed by the Allies.

I can't be the only one seeing a problem here.

Haven't we just be witnessing a 2vs2 tournament last night where Axis dominated all matches independently of the team playing them?

White Phosophorus barrage is just awesome, cheap 120 or 130 munitions (don't remember exactly) and fast landing, your opponent has to insta-click retreat button to not suffer from it. Use it to assault a location with your men, nothing will stand in it and you be able to finish of any squad with your shermans
As I say it forces retreat, your opponent cannot relocate a HMG/Mortar/pak that would be in the center of the barrage without losing at least half of its life and being slowed by the phosphorus effect.

As ClassyDavid, my actual favored doctrine is Airborn at the moment, I use it with T2 Captain. The main cons of this doctrine are MP heavy and lack of off-map indirect fire to clean/deny an area.

In think that for the next iteration of Coh, Relic really need to modify the Armor role for his game.
Tank Armor role should be more about damage reduction than damage countered. Coh2 has reached a point were TDs are the predominant tanks in game.

In my opinion, all issues related with the panther, tiger, IS-2 or King Tiger etc… is that their high armor value make them almost impossible to fight with regular medium tanks. So players simply don't build medium tanks and focus on tank destroyers.
When I play the game, I like building army of medium tanks Sherman, T34 or Pz4, but the simple fact that they can’t face the next level of tanks make them mostly useless past a certain time, they simply don’t cut it in late game. In opposition, medium tank destroyers such as SU-76, jpz4 or stugs keep their usefulness all the game long because they can still pen those big cats.

I think that if armor value was a chance to reduce damage instead of not getting damaged at all medium tanks would still have a place in late game. With that, the imperative need of massing pure tank destroyers would go down, relegated to their principal function, supporting from behind your medium tanks. They could go back to what they supposed to be, glass canon, helpless if rushed.

So any medium tank would always deal damage to biggest tank, the odds would simply decide if you get a “critical” hit that deal 100% damage or a defection damage ratio of the tank.
With this solution, all Tank Destroyers could be relegated to an expensive late game unit kind like the elefant, something that do pen other tank almost always but limited to one per player (Jackson, SU-85, FF, Panthers).
Medium tank destroyer could see their price and popcap increasing so they become less spammable (to jpz4 level for instance) so all the gameplay would evolve around tank play and not only tank destroyer play.

I don't know how you want to make the panther more available and better at the same time.

Or you make it more available, an EZ8/T34-85 clone for Ostheer and it will be countered by all TDs even more than today.

Or you make it better than it is today and this will come at a highiest price for the unit.

I'm not against any of those solutions in fact, but I'm not sure it will be suitable for Ostheer.