Profile of Fantomasas

Kv1's purpose is to counter medium tank's because of it's armor but be countered heavier tanks like panther and so on. At least that's what the sweetspot for the kv1 should be.
Maybe the churchill is a bit too good, just saying

Both Churchill and KV1 don't really have a place in the game. Churchill might counter P4 in like 8-10 shots, because the front armor of Axis tanks is too tough for KV1/Churchill to penetrate reliably.

Churchill and KV1 are just the heavy version of Panzer IV without the mobility or the same anti-infantry firepower. Their weapons are only reliable against light and rear armor, so not really useful due to their movement speed.

Paks, stugs, panzerjagers and raketens just farm veterancy on these tanks, the HP pool of churchill makes it slow to repair, where Soviets are slow at repairing large HP pools by default. Veterancy bonuses of these tanks don't give them extra range, damage or pen, just the reload speed. So your heavy full vet tanks are still going to be useless against panthers and heavy axis tanks due to the low penetration. Even Brumbar with veterancy gets the armor bonuses to the point where you are better off shooting shells at infantry with your Churchill.

Plus your slow and short range (40) tanks will get fausted all the time making them even less useful in engages. Churchill has the vet 3 ability to repair the slow itself, but it is only useful if you run over a mine because the time to repair is 15 seconds.

Is armed with the 251's flak cannon which is fairly good against infantry and light vehicles as well as aircraft. Small-arms do absolutely nothing to it now or the crew, snipers included so you need indirect fire or close with explosives; ATGs also can't effective snipe it with its target size of 10. Might also be receiving build-time reductions and manpower.

It is better than the MG bunker so it has to cost more. MG bunked costs a lot more munitions than this one does with fuel.

Unlike the MG bunked, it counters light vehicles and aircraft too. It is unlikely that you can flank for the easy satchel.

I don't think that the person has tested the rework of it because he is factually incorrect:
• It isn't a small update, it gets more damage and more durability
• It is a much better anti-air tool than before if it is same as flak halftrack
• It is a much better defense point than MG bunker because it counter light vehicles and huge arc

When you have to argue with people who post kneejerk reactions calling an item useless garbage, but cannot represent the item's properties fairly, you are wasting your time.

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What could you do for this wishlist:
• Is it possible to use green minimap color for allied airstrikes/planes, I have plenty of experiences where teammates have to ask whose planes are coming.
• What can be done with "Hold the Line" ability for Special Weapons commander in the team games. The ability is bugged to the point where it only works if you personally captured the sector or something.
• What can be done with the infra-red halftrack spotting half of the 4x4 map (or full map in Red Ball express), because I feel that due to the fact that it cannot be one-shotted and is cheap to buy, it offers an insane advantage. And unlike something like Partisan spy-network, it broadcasts the info the entire team.
• It feels like Centaur's vet ability goes on the cooldown too early compared to the animation. It is extra punishing compared to other abilities in the game because it considers turret rotation as the start of the ability. Something like the Pershing shot isn't as punishing because the targeting animation doesn't make it go on cooldown if you cancel.
• There is a lot of changes to crocodile, but are there any quality of life improvements to the turret control?

So the thing is, this was originally supposed to help team games become balanced. Lots of units that do not even surface in 1v1s turn the tide in 3v3s+. Panther is one such unit. In a 1v1 it is murder to stall until t4, so the Panther naturally underperforms when you consider the tech costs involved. In a team game you have more or less the same amount of territory points to fight over, but 4 times more people going at it. Having a mobile kampfgruppe of Panthers is practically uncounterable for cost by the Allies.

Panther's veterancy is what makes it a real problem in team games. It gets Blitz, armor/HP and reload speed.

It is easy to rank it up due to the fact that chasing is not an option in 4vs4 so the monstrous armor can usually back out despite driving into tank-destroyers and AT weapons. The panther might not kill your tanks, but it will always penetrate where all but tank destroyers are going to bounce a lot.

Panther (in team games) is a beast because:
• High Mobility
• Heavy Tank stats
• Tank Destroyer (50 range)
• Ok anti-infantry
• Spammable
• Hard to vet-up against it

Panther renders all ally generalist tanks (T34 85, E8 and even Comet) obsolete because only AT weapons/tank destroyers can reliably penetrate Panther's front armor.

The solution could be making the popcap 22/24 or giving it veterancy bonuses like Comet's (Vet 1 Blitz, Vet 2 Targeting bonuses, Vet 3 additional mobility).

3x3 Victory, but got defeat instead.