Profile of Protos Angelus

That's not how the game works. The E8 can and will reliably beat p4s where the m4 is disadvantaged. The E8 is even more valuable against okw where the medium tank match up leaves usf on the back foot.
USF doesn't want for AI anywhere so it's lower AI isnt the end of the world if it denies your enemy tank supremacy.
The issues lie in it being doctrinal, and it competing with the Jackson for an AT role. Those and the fact the tank isn't really that FUN (this I suppose is in part because of its lower AI)

Like I said, make it a limited to 1 command unit and it gives it much more room to be unique and not overlap so much. As I think, it might be required to be HARD capped at 1per game due to the crew, or at the very least with an extreme cooldown to prevent stacking up.

But back to your point there is no denying that the E8 has good stats. It can bounce all standard AT and requires a Panther as a means to guarantee penatrations. This is undeniable. There is no spin. Stats are stats. E8 CAN bounce even pak shots at range (the chance is slim but it CAN) it is one of the only allied mediums in the game that has that chance. It's not debatable. It's one of the only allied mediums that can bounce shreks. Again, this is beyond contestation.

The tank is underwhelming. I agree with that, but imo it's a fun factor not a Stat issue. This is not fact but opinion.

Only in 1v1. If anything, the E8 can be useful in 1v1s. I'd still take OKW P4 with better armour and non doctrinal than E8 any time of day. Getting E8 to fight P4s is one of the worst investments one can make in anything above 1v1. Reliably beating P4s means nothing. There will never be a scenario where your E8 and P4 will go mano-a-mano on some wide open space without any supporting stuff. So yeah, in a vacuum, E8 beats both P4s.. but only in a vacuum. In my opinion, E8 should have been a doctrinal premium brawler, not a retarded Jackson that it is currently or just a retarded M4 that it used to be before the patch. And don't give me all that "faction flavour" BS you constantly spill about USF being mobile and whatnot. Those things went away ages ago, in favour of 1v1 symmetrical balance

I've used it today 3 times. 3v3. Vet1 ability is downright garbage. Becomes a retarded Jackson with a slightly better AI department and worse range. 215 armour is nothing vs stugs and AT walls. Hell even a P4 has good enough penetration chances vs it on ranges that will usually be fought at (close to medium range). Tried popping the focused gunnery but the slowdown is not something I like, especially with garbage pathfinding (eg. used reverse and the E8 decided to spin 360 and only then reverse back). Not something I curse at with regular shermans as they are quite mobile, but with focused... yeah. No.
Don't understand the team's decision to make E8 a retarded Jackson that outside 1v1 has no real use (not enough armour nor range nor agility to do anything against OKW P4s + walls).

In 1v1, I can see E8 being more used. In 1v1 the focused gunnery can be substantial. In theory, the vet1 E8 can be a really good tank in 100 vs 100 popcap games

Just got absolutely obliterated by the B4 in a 4v4. We were doing well in the early game but once the B4 was out it was a slow and agonizing bleed of squads and manpower. Made it impossible to keep a forward reinforce point or OKW truck alive. None of us had a large off map call in like a stuka bomb though because we were unprepared by how strong the B4 was. I think something definitely needs to be done to nerf it, as it stands its just an ML20 that shoots nukes. Maybe turn it into an anti tank weapon?

Yup. Same as how you play vs LeFH without callins. Nothing new. B4 is now much more consistent, so you'll need to kill it instead of letting it sit there. Before the patch, the B4 was a hit or miss scenario. Nothing in between (and mostly it missed).
This is exactly the same scenario as non-countered LeFH. Either get a callin or suffer

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(from teamgame perspective and assuming the axis player is not braindead)
Wishful thinking. Highly unlikely that the balance team, which is comprised of people half-assing the patches, will even propose such changes to Relic. Too much thinking involved and would probably be met with "allies will be OP from early game to late". Truth be told, allies do have a stronger early game with mainlines. If the map doesn't allow some cancerous MG42 positioning or double sturmpio openings with good kubel spots, I've seldom lost my VP lane (eg. redball is perfect for double sturmpio + kubel openings or MG42 openings on both top and bot fuel due to sightblockers for sturmpios and lanes for MG42s), and that's mostly thanks to superior (and more expensive) rifles.

I remember when OKW came out, there were tutorials and stuff like that on the main menu and I remember the narrator of one of the OKW mechanic tutorials saying something in the lines of "If you survive the low fuel income and weak early game, you are sure to dominate late game with superior elite armour and infantry". Something like that. Basically, OKW early game sucked while it's lategame was (well, still is) unbeatable.

Now throughout the updates, the early game has been buffed and reworked (MG34...) to allow plays in 1v1 where there are no true "end-games" (with 3xKT or Tigers and KTs or w/e roaming the map) while the lategame (which mostly occurs in teamgames) has received no substantial nerfs. Except for the "no caches", I don't think any old mechanics still apply to OKW. Well, the stock KT is still here, an "I WIN" unit if used properly.

1v1 community that does nothing but play COH2 all day screeched and the balance team and relic watered down the game to a symmetrical BS we have today.

So can the allies late game be buffed? Sure.
Will it be buffed? At this stage of the game, 7+ years in? No
Why? Unless you pay a group of people, community peeps can't really get the job done. Either a time issue or "can't really be bothered" problem or just lack of imagination and brainstorm power.
I mean, I've played low rank games (1000+), and high ranked ones (top 10) vs all sorts of axis combinations. One thing I can say for sure is that the better players really know how to take advantage of elite units and the full stock roster that they have.
The funniest thing is when you play a game filled with random (or not) level 19 and 20 players, you really see how with allies you will dominate the early game. But as the game progresses even the best can't really do much when the basic tools are locked behind commanders they didn't select. Hence why the Calliope is so popular.
No mines on USF.
No sandbags.
MG is a potential backtech and a good axis player will use stukas or werfers before sending in the blobs in lane-y maps anyway to displace the MG.
Pak howi no longer wipes consistently.
AA HT is good but can easily fall prey to double raketen behind a blob.
Barred Rifles can hold the ground for a bit but unless you answer blob for blob, not holding anything as it's a close range weapon.
Sherman HE, same thing. Can easily fall prey to raketen or paks, or if lategame, elefant/jagd.
Scott? Maybe, depends on the luck. Double scotts are good for holding against blobs, but at that stage of the game, you've got other problems.

Can't count how many times I've seen a Pfussies blob mass retreat because a katy just opened it's mouth on them.

MG34's suppression isn't that great either, but IMO it has better accuracy and killing power than other HMGs especially if you give it accuracy bulletin. But a lower ROF. I would imagine it's similar for Vickers

MG42:
Amount
0.012
AOE suppression
0.0096
AOE suppression radius
13

MH34:
Amount
0.0125
AOE suppression
0.01
AOE suppression radius
13

As you can see, stats wise, it has larger suppression than an MG42 but fires slower so it suppresses only ever slightly slower than an MG42. Suppression wise -- great MG.