T34/76 is bad choice?
No one would call in T34/76 if T34/85 would be doctrinal?
Gosh... You are talking such bullshit like yesterday's 3 Paras Thompsons vs Obers which I proved you are wrong.
T34/76 is amazing tank.
It's worse than PzIV or Sherman, yes. But it's damn spamable. I ve killed counteless Tiger, Panther and King Tigers with T34/76.
They work perfect with for example Urban Defense commander or any other than force paks to move back or just take them out of combat (incendiary strike or propaganda). With those you completly negate AT Gun and someties even infantry. This leaves 3-4 T34/76 vs King Tiger, Panther or Tiger.
Yes, you will lose many of them while fighting KT or Tiger but they are not like IS2 or ISU which are very valuable for you and you can't lose them. You can lose them and you will replace them without any problems.
Of course there are maps where they might be useless like Trois-Points. Small, narrow, witouth any place to flank but of those maps Shermans and Jacksons are useless as well.
Commander with 7/8CP T34/76 call in? Take my money Relic!
Worse call in tanks don't actually come in at the right times. Due to the rushing meta 8 CP's is really fuckin late for a T34/76 to be coming in. The fact that the OKW Ostwind is 8 CP's is why you never see it, because Jacksons will have already hit the field and make your Ostwinds useless.
Haven't you learned yet, Alexanzenzez doesn't actually know the stats or functionality of any units/abilities.. he just talks trash and hopes the person he is talking to doesn't know anything. Unfortunately this isn't the offical coh boards, he should probably go back there though, he would do better.
I have access to the coh2 stats website, but it doesn't list abilities there so I can't exactly look up HEAT shells. The last time I talked about HEAT shells with Cruzz he said they only increased pen chance and not damage.
Honestly it's not really much of a sticking point, the commander is still garbage. Yeah the thing I need is higher chance to pen with my Panther, which already has the highest pen of any Tank Hunter in the game.
Thats weird.
I was playing AT 4v4 recently as allies. I faced AT teams, clans. And you know what? My T34 did way more damage than IS2 of my teannates. Tigers, Panthers.. No threat for t34. Its all about keeping them alive and supporting with zis and cons.
In fact I have no call ins in my load out and still melt Axis in team games.
Because let's be clear. In 1v1 you should have IS2 or T34/85 or ISU but in team games T34 shines.
IIRC The reason your T34's do more damage is because they are on the field longer, the IS2 doesn't actually do more damage than the T34/76. They both do 160 damage to tanks.
They have about the same reload, (as in with in .3 of each other), so if they came on the field at the exact same time the IS2 would do more damage because it has a higher chance to pen enemy tanks.
Although your point is correct, properly micored mediums in team games will normally always go farther than a heavy tank due to the fact that mediums can move around the map faster and cost less to make. So you have 2 T34/76's shooting at 160 damage rather than just 1 IS2 shooting at 160 damage.
M-42 AT guns, irregulars and AI partisans would like to have a word with you about that.
All those examples are the number 1 reason people will never use commanders that just give you worse units.
If you make the t34/76 replace the 85, people are just not going to take a commander so they can have sub par call ins. People will just get IS2's and ISU's to back up their medium tanks.