The Mobile Observation Post is simply an effect of the Reigal Mine merge. Since Jaeger Armor already had the Reigal mines it got the MOP as a result. Basically a free buff for an ability it already had. It's also always had both spotting scopes and recon plane so that overlap was always there - just nobody ever complained because Elephant with Scopes was like 95% of the draw of the Commander.
Now yes, it IS pretty goofy that the commander has 3 different Recon abilities. But it's pretty logical how it ended up that way since the balance team probably didn't want to overbuff a commander that was and I assume probably still is MEGA meta for team games by swapping a Recon ability for something else more useful.
well 3(4 if you count flares) recon ability + ele is VERY effective in 4v4 where 1 player can carry whole recon operation for the entire team so 3 player can focus on off-map strikes and artillery without bother recon and anti tank duties(ngl i cheese this too i just focusing getting early ele and munis for recon (obs hftk when placed correctly eliminate suprise flanking manuver which is god tier oh dont forget flares for more accurate artillery barrage (suck it sov mortar)) while the other teammate focus other things) i don't say it was bad but it just weird having so many recon ability packed in one doctrine even overwatch theme commander only have 2 recon ability compare to this commander lol..
I think they just chose something that had no risk of making things worse. They learned their lesson after the AT strafe
yeah what can i say player tend to whining more rather than thinking how to counter new things (solving problem are far more difficult than typing i guess~)
yeah about AT strafe while thematic but create same problem as stuka dive bomb.. (while it prevent one shotted static artillery but instead one shotted mobile artillery and even do more than that lol betraying original focus of "heavy td commander cannot one shot artillery piece"
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