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Also even though the USF tank might get away you will still stop there suprise flank dead in it tracks which can be very important as we would immediately go retreat to repair it after fixing the crit dmg. If I hit one mine I am going to assume there is more there in the area so it is still effective as area denial from suprise armor flanks and could force us into the axis bottle necks.

I use the ez8, multiples of them, all the time. I do not think I want to see armor sacrificed for hp. I would much rather it be able to bounce shreks, faust, and every now and then a bigger at platform. A cost reduction is where it is at I am fine with the ez8 where it is other than it feels a bit expensive. I dont need it to go toe to toe with heavies or panthers it is a flanking tank speed and manuverbility is where it is at maybe a slight acceleration increase would be ok too. If your thinking your going to use them as a meat shield for jacksons that just isnt going to happen. Your much better to build nothing but ez8s and put them in a wolf pack to flank if your going yo go ez8 thats where they excell as a mobile strike force.

More hp might be more usefull agaisnt big paks but there easily countered and you shouldnt be bringing your ez8s anywhere in there range until there taken out. 3 of them go toe to toe with a panther if your micro is good and they own heavies in the ass on a well timed flank.

Guards Motor is still by far the most meta and powerful Soviet Doctrine by a mile.

Now in light of the new coming patch it looks as if your not going to see nearly as many 85's so I think we need to wait before we nerf the entire commander into oblivion. 120mm has already been nerfed so much and is borderline crap again.

A small cost increase is all it needs. If a sherman is at 75% hp already a axis mine will normally destroy it, a lot of times it will only take one more shot from a panther etc after it hits a mine at full hp to knock it out.

With your race car panthers and considering it does take a little time to actually get out and repair it and you can't finish it off? There is delays on sherman smoke which cannot be used on top of the sherman directly and attack ground still works on USF tanks too. In general you have very little risk chasing any injured USF tanks with a panther? What are usf going to do to your panther use our POS At gun or zooks that can't pen it and do shit dmg when they do?

If USF didn't have this I think they would be screwed. USF tanks are already punished hard for making just one step too far. If a pz4 or panther makes a wrong move they usually get away with it. USF have to be somewhat aggressive with their tanks when attacking they are not built as a faction to sit it out with axis and normally do not win that way.

So for the most part we are having to extend our tanks a lot farther into riskier situations than what axis has to.

Plus the panther even when it hits a mine is not that slowed really and does not mean instant death because of its great front armor and the shrecks paks and raktens always everywhere. The way axis factions are designed defensively it is way easier for them to protect wounded tanks than usf or soviets for that matter they don't need to extend them as far and don't really even need tanks for offense like USF they are more for defense.

So imo axis have in general better armor and health that helps passively to preserve armor the opposite for USF I think is why we have a little gimmick to possibly help us have some armor preservation because it takes a lot of shermans to take out a panther tiger or what have you. Crit repair is never a gauranteed get out of jail card.

Fixing the bleed and filling the indirect fire holes are very much on the to-do list but neither of those things excuse the current absusable state of superglue.

I don't know I think it should still happen almost instantly it is not easy to pull off and you have to consider like 9 times out of 10 if it is rifle naded (which now requires the tank to already be damaged to work) or hits a mine its going to be badly wounded and only take like 1 or two AT hits depending to knock it out. It takes pretty good micro to use it as it is and smoke cover is a lot of times necessary if it can be done in time like a teamates sherman or another of your own. I mean It is harder to do than panzer tact smoke or hitting blitzkreig button. Especially if the cost is raised.

EDIT: also it does take like 5 seconds for the crew just to get out of it giving more time for it to take another at gun or shrek hit what have you.