Profile of Tiger Baron

• What sort of enemy army composition should they be good against?
  
• What should they be able to counter?
  
• What should counter them?
  
• When should they be available?
  
• Where do you think they should fit into the game?

I struggle to believe there's no option other than as shock units.

Just my opinion here, as always:

Like in the real war, they were and (again in my opinion) should be, generalists.

Everything in it's sight range I suppose.

Tank Destroyers, AT guns, massed anti-tank infantry.

Late Game, as this is not Steel Division I don't think you should be able to rush them. In CoH all heavy vehicles were always doctrinal and came in the late game, requiring the most exp to unlock as to not disturb the balance of power.

The "Where do you think they should fit" question confuses me, if you mean by role I'd suppose a spearhead of an assault force.

1 unit Armies while sounding nice doesn't really make sense to me, I mean many Tiger crews for example dispatched many T34s piecemeal 1 by 1 and cut down swathes of (Soviet) infantry in front of them charging forwards as long as their MG barrels didn't overheat or they ran out of ammo, but they could be overwhelmed by numbers of both those of course.

Well if you ever get the time, and you want to do that, that'd be great! There's a few other things that I was planning to compare from CoH1, like fidget/flinch animations, squad-ai, and reaction behavior, before I found out that I can only record at 10 fps.

Wait, you want me to compare retail COH2 infantry animations with the new animations or CoH to CoH2 animations, or are you talking about entirely other comparisons? Sorry but I just kinda got confused.

And yeah dude I know your pain, I only recently got a rig capable of recording, before that I was in the same boat as well, that's why I wanna help you.

If you want something unique you give the Ostheer a Command Porsche Tiger. It was one of a kind, up-armored (additional 100mm plate at the front, making it 200 in total, which is even more than the KT I think) and was the command vehicle of the Ferdinand Panzerjäger battalion at Kursk, itself with around 50 enemy tanks destroyed while the battalion in total had a pretty good ratio as well but I don't remember specifics.

Too bad we don't have the model importing and editing tools tho, it probably would have been SORT of easy to just slap on the Tiger's turret on the Elefant's hull altho I don't really know how that works so I'm probably speaking out a bit rashly here.

I agree that the MG34 just needs a slight tweak, but the Vickers' suppression feels lacking to me altho it's range (especially at Vet 1 when garrisoned) and damage seem good, but for that price, yeah...

Just my opinion based on observations of course.

For UKF I'd say that the top large team commanders have always been and probably always will be the ones with the Churchill Crocodile, so Vanguard who has self repair on tanks, glider HQ (commandos), ability for tanks to capture as well and a nice loiter ability. Special Weapons that has the M3 Weapons HT, AT IS that were life savers for the UKF before because of their snare but not so much anymore, 240mm Barrage and a weird loiter type infantry buff ability that's a bit broken so almost nobody uses. Lastly we got the revamped Tactical Support Reg that has the FHQ but comes a bit too late, "special" (useless slot in my opinion) salvage Sappers, mortar and AT gun drop and the designate command vehicle that you might or might not wanna make the Croc. Maybe try out the new commander if you feel cheeky and wanna spam M10s but I tried it against the new Tiger Ace and failed because of the mass support they get in team games so unless you got loads of resources to spare...

For USF which are probably the poorest Army to choose in a large team game because of lacking armor, and large team games are dictated by Armor, Rifle Company because of the E8, Mech Company because of Cav Rifles, M4A3 76(W) Shermans and Sherman Bulldozers (that can sort of act like meatshields but not exactly). Then I'd probably throw in Infantry Company because of the indirect fire support you get and the new Urban Assault commander because you can cheese your way through the infantry phase with RE Rifle Grenades and later cheese your way through the later armor phase with the infantry murdering Bulldozer Shermans.

Soviets I don't play that much but I played a few times with the Armor Assault or whatever it was called commander with the IS-2 and T-34/85 and with the Guards, 120mm Mortar and T-34/85 commander that also has self-repair for it's vehicles, that's a pretty nice one as well I'd say.