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same could said about the Panther, Tiger I(hard debate though) Tiger II, JagTiger,Ferdinand and pretty much every other german heavy armored vehicle

The reliability and effective armor of the Tiger I at release was a bit of a shitfest, but it doesn't even touch how much of a death trap most American tanks are. The Pershing was basically rushed out of production due to the U.S. Army shitting it's pant because they had no heavy or "modern" tank while the Soviet were making IS2's and IS3's.

This thread is like banging your head against a brick wall.

M36 is too rng. Axis fan boys can kiss my lily white pudding. If it pens it's a monster. When it doesn't it may as well be a m5 stuart. Axis has the heaviest armor and the best penetration at weapons and that fact. Shreks 100% pen virtually all usf armor. Only e8 has like 17% chance to bounce. All the while the 57mm can't pen anything at long range and our top of the line dedicated TD, which by its poor survivability is forced to engage at max range, has a pen of 160 at long range (correct me if I'm wrong) it's imbalance plain and simple. I'm pretty sure shreks pen 160 at max range too, and they are supposed to be at support. USF has a hell of a time cracking some nuts while axis can simply walk infantry up to usf armor and "say hello to my little friend"

If m36 could pen a panther at a rate of more like 66-75% it would be infinitely better. You can't over value generalist units when fighting an army composed of specialists. Take out one link and it all falls apart.

I think almost everyone agrees, even so called "axis fanboys" that the Jackson is a dumb unit, utterly insane damage on the most mobile TD platform in the game while also being an RNG monster. It vastly over preforms on anything that's not a KT or Panther which has helped result in the current "stall for heavies/panther" meta which is just as punishing for Axis players.

The M36 should have a better ROF, but reduced damage, which would allow it to pump out DPS more reliably while not making literally every Axis medium useless.

The Shrek pen of Allied Medium armor doesn't really mean much when the only MBT you have is the Sherman and Easy Eight (I'm not mentioned the Dozer Sherman because it's literal garbage) and both those tanks can easily kite out of the range of shreks. Shrek's mostly just punish people who try to run at the enemy with out support. Still, if Axis had less fragile and more diverse AT options they wouldn't need a crutch like shreks.

And what's the difference between tank destroyer and tank hunter?

Let me put here the most simple definition of TD.

"A tank destroyer or tank hunter is a type of armored fighting vehicle armed with...."

Every turreted tank in the game was historically a tank hunter except the Luchs and sherman, but the only tank that functions like a tank hunter in game is the Panther

AT Gun? The one with 115 long range pen, which means pure RNG? The ine that I need to resign from AT mines and MG to get it? How broken is that?
How broken is situation when I need to give up at mines and HMG to get AT Gun?

Welcome to COH2, you can have seat on the couch glitching into the wall, please mind all the people stuck retreating at the fridge.

So what should I use? Sherman or Stuart?

An AT gun.

we dont need an assault gun, panzer4 and ostwind already fulfill the role of anti-infantry in t3. ost needs an tank destroyer

I agree, but even with some pretty radical buffs the StuG would remain mediocre compared to the other TD's in the game despite the teching and unit cost which is why I suggested it also have AI capabilities.