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The Panther in turn can penetrate them back, but also has much higher health. The Panther also has a decent chance beat a Pershing or IS-2 one-on-one. It's hard to compare the Panther to things because it's in a class of it's own as a 'Tank Hunter', essentially a low-end Heavy Tank with a Tank Destroyer gun and Medium Tank mobility. But there are also Tiger and Tiger Ace. My worry is that with German tanks, especially Panther, excelling in nearly every category there is (with survivability being unmatched due to high armor, high health, blitz, and optional smoke), the late-game is still going to be Axis Tanks vs Allied Tank Destroyers, the latter being the only thing standing between the the Germans and Victory. Were it up to me I'd probably bring Heavy Tanks and Medium Tanks closer together so that Tank Destroyers didn't have to match the power of Heavy Tanks whilst nullifying Mediums.

Panther easily beats both Pershing and IS-2 in 1v1. Vet0 (vet3 all 3 tanks, panther will maybe beat them as RNG does not exclude Pershing and IS2 winning). Axis will still dominate late game with tanks. Especially since Panther had a substantial accuracy buff. Pershing should get an armour buff or some sort of ROF buff through veterancy.
Still, whether Pershing will be able to not cower in face of any AT gun, be it Panther, Stug, paks, raketen or just plain old JP4... with Pershing's low survivability, it will all boil down to spam Jacksons/SU85s vs generalist heavies. Nothing will change with regards to "don't let axis go late game to spam KTs, tigers, sturms and other malarkey". So teamgames still favor axis but I doubt anyone will even try to touch USF late game potential outside of calliope since wheraboos will just scream "jackson nerf, too OP".
One question: Is this the patch that was labeled as "core armies patch 2021 first quarter"?

Regarding balance: OK patch
Regarding QoL: Excellent patch

Is this the 2021 first quarter patch?

ALL mainline infantry need munitions to be effective late game. ALL OF THEM. Because ALL of the enemy squads are ALSO going to invest muni in theirs. Saying it needs to invest like the enemy does does not disqualify their supremacy. If having to invest munitions to fight enemy squads that also invested munitions means a squad isn't good then there is no single decent infantry in the game.

True. But there's also a fact that grens LMG upgrade is much cheaper than 2x bren and fits the role of grens. 2x bar is late-late game upgrade if you're not playing any doctrines with offmap or ranger zooks (ranger + RE zook combo). Only other unit gren comes to mind is IS which need a slight MP price increase after the 5man upgrade since brens cost "only" 45 munitions and getting 2 is not sacrificing anything except maybe one base arty from them. That's my point. Difference in costs of fully upgraded squads.

Pls try to cut down on characterizations of that sort in this thread. They are not constructive.

Thanks in advance.

But did I lie?

Still, the indirect weapons are fine. Providing stats from the last years WC is beneficial in the regard that one can see the evolution of game balance. 8 mortars in 40 games is a very low number for OST since their mortar is the best by a normal margin.
Only USF could be said that they "actively" used indirect. 10/44 is a low number, probably in games that required fast smoke or one player that likes using it. All in all, a low number of indirect usage was back in 2019, even lower now. Nothing unexpected.

I can't remember that mortars besides the PaK Howie were regularly used in any recent 1v1 tournament. Some units here and there yes, but my subjective impression was that players in general do not see them as a unit that would add enough.

I assume it is the game mode though. 1v1 has low unit density and more mobile warfare. Mortars are just not that effective here. In team games they are fine, I don't think they need major changes outside of maybe a few tweaks that are unit specific.

Didn't you hear? A couple of whereaboos stated that the pak howi is OP and as such should not be used by USF players. USF players complied.

Pak howi is not used because it's quite expensive to build and maintain. It requires a lot of input in 1v1s because it can be decrewed easily due to 2 man decrew + super low agility. Combine that with the fact that 1v1s are all about constant shifting, pak howi is not really needed. In 1v1s pak howi is usually bought alongside paras in Recon doctrine (pak howi + paras drop). Pak how is really good vs ostruppen which are cover bound to be effective but alas, it's expensive and potential big bleed.
In teamgames, which are more static all around, pak howi is used much more effectively and hence the constant crying from typical axisboos (everyone knows who they are)

Considering the mortar. A T1 mortar is not really effective in the long run and USF t0 mortar is not needed early on since going for more rifles gives you more map control and flanking is not difficult on 1v1.

This tournament was dull and boring. Same commanders, same builds. I understand it's for the money and going the most effective commander for 1v1s is preferable but man was it dull. But that's 1v1 for you. You need a commander that can react.

All in all. Yes. 1v1 is much too mobile to use indirect fire. Only indirect that can work in 1v1s are the stock mobile indirects. Stuka, werfer, katyusha. I'm 90% sure that the USF halftrack mortar could do wonders in 1v1 but we shall never know.