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instead of all the drama and personal attacks going on in this and the original thread, posts like this is what the discussion should revolve around. bravo and thanks a lot for sharing these thoughts!

It does scale badly in the bigger game modes which are played a lot more than 1vs1. The four main reasons are:

1. It has no real late game commander abilities (although cluster mines and vetted Paras still work well)

2. Greyhound comes way too late because of ressource inflation. At 3vs3 and 4vs4 it is completely useless, at 2vs2 hard to use already. It has to be integrated into tech and needs a small buff. As I said I would prefer a recon buff over a combat buff. That way it would have a greater team value too.

3. You want more Paras than howitzers. Reserve Paras should be buildable at HQ at least, a seperate drop would be even better, since it would open up a lot of combined actions at teamplay.

4. It has little team oriented commander abilities that have a unique value. Greyhound recon buff and seperate Reserve Fall airdrop would strenghten team options.

recon support scaling worse in 3v3 and up than other doctrines is certainly true, but at the same time, the inverse can be said about isu and elefant commanders that are absolutely meta in team games while rarely seen in 1v1s. i don't think this is much of a problem as not all commanders need to be viable in every gamemode.

that being said, i agree the greyhound could use some adjustments, especially with respect to its timing. your solution to tie it to tech sounds reasonable, though i'd argue a greyhound potentially arriving even before a stuart might be a bit too much. maybe 4 cp plus tech could work well, instead.
a buff to its utility via extended sight range is a great suggestion though. usf doesn't really have many great non-doc recon options anyway, so it would be nice if the greyhound could fill that gap at least to some degree.

with respect to the combat group... i don't know. the drop kind of acts as a soft cap that gives you access to both units at a hefty discount, while it dicourages spamming more than one or two at the same time. i do like this aspect of unit bundles in general (and this one in particular, since it is basically the only one where both parts of the package are equally valuable in almost every possible scenario), but i understand that i'm kind of in the minority here. buildable paras once the para drop is available would hence be a fair compromise i guess.

Also, arty isnt a problem, it needs to be effective. If its a huge problem in 4v4, just raise the pop cap of arty.

If mortars suck, then the game becomes a WWI simulator of everyone dug in just outside of mg range with no options to support a push. In 1v1 you can just go elsewhere on the map, in 4v4, you cant.

Snipers are also an essential part of the game, why should I lose the ability to counter weapon teams and infantry spam, because my opponent cant out micro me?

this pretty much. both indirect fire and snipers are integral game mechanics for me and coh wouldn't be the same without it. sure you can argue that every faction should have equally viable means to deal with arty and counter snipers, but outright removing both would lead to even more static and predictable gameplay.

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Yes that was my bad, i didnt consider the new at nade requirements.
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double officers will now give you at-nades as well, so going lt + cpt into greyhound as you outlined works pretty decent.

overall i agree with most what you've said; recon support is rather strong, at least from a 1v1 perspective. and even though it might not be as flexible as the airborne para drop, the airdropped combat group gives insane value for money and i've often chosen recon support for this ability alone in the past.
the greyhound might need a bit of extra at capabilities for its timing or come a bit earlier instead, but that's the only thing i'd tweak in this commander honestly.

I'd say the light artillery barrage is kind of weak if used by itself alone. I did some calculations on this a while ago and the chance of killing a clumped squad in the center of the casting circle is only about 8%. on average it drained about 80% of the total HP and killed around 50% of the models - not totally bad but also nothing to write home about either.

But as Sander said already it's dirt cheap and can be used to soften up enemy team weapons during an attack.

The Cmnd.PzIV is actually pretty decent AI-wise thanks to its high rate of fire and low scatter, especially at long range where it's comparable to the PzIV-H. But its biggest shortcoming is that it will barely scratch the paint job of anything heavier than a Stuart - of which there's usually plenty around when the Cmnd.PzIV hits the field.

Maybe it could come a bit earlier or the something could be done to make the aura a bit more interesting/impactful. However, it might be a good idea to split the aura bonus into two parts affecting the whole team and player only, respectively, to avoid overbuffing the tank again in larger game modes.