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Sherman 76 can't fight panther and is more expensive than the M4A3 75 sherman. It also doesn't have the HE rounds which are the main reason why people would build a 75 sherman outside of 1v1 anyway. I see a point of building a Sherman 76 in 1v1 as it still has some AI capability while being much better AT than stock Sherman. Sherman 76 is a good medium tank but you don't need mediums in 2v2+. You need arty, TDs and inf.

Dis, saying that USF tanks requires more micro is actually false, better moving accuracy and scatter means u don’t need to stop and shoot like all other tanks

You are again being delusional thinking that USF players don't stop vehicles before firing. Believe me or not but 1 > 0.75. 0.75 moving ACC multiplier is useful when you are reversing your tank out from the combat and you can still land some shots on the enemy, or when you are desperately trying to chase and kill something. Just the other day I had a situation when I was flanking a stug with sherman and I missed at like 10 distance because I didn't stop before firing.

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Hi, I wanted to ask you about commander abilities that you think could use some tweaking.

Let me start, I think that the single IL2 Sturmovik Attack from the Advanced Warfare commander is pretty bad. For 90 MU you get a plane attack with the cannons that deals low suppression and some damage if it hits infantry. The problem is that it's pretty difficult to hit with this ability, so most of the time it's just wasted 90 MU.

USF has a similar P47 Strafing Run in Tactical Support Company for 125 MU. That one deals similar damage and more suppression than the IL2 Sturmovik Attack but suffers from the same problem of being difficult to hit and easy to dodge for it's price (damage-wise, as the suppression AOE still works ok even if you miss).

OST Assault Support doctrine also has a similar Strafing Run which deals insignificant damage but excellent suppression and costs only 60 MU. With this ability you can pin the infantry even if you miss the strafe. I think that being able to cause pin on demand is very good value for 60 MU, even if the strafe itself deals no damage.

Imho P47 Strafing Run > OST Strafing Run > IL2 Sturmovik Attack

Hitting target with strafe ability is very difficult, so missing and still being able to suppress infantry is a much better feature in my opinion.

I would suggest changing the price of these abilities to better reflect their usefulness:
- P47 Strafing Run 80 MU (from 125) as it is the strongest of the listed abilities but still overpriced
- OST Strafing Run 60 MU (no change) as one can reliably pin infantry with this ability
- IL2 Sturmovik Attack 60 MU (from 90) as it has the worst suppression and it's difficult to hit with

If you decide to follow and comment on my example or present your own matters not. This is a topic open to all kinds of commander abilities suggestions. I just find it sad that these strafes cannot be used more often because of their expensive pricing. Also ability spam can be prevented with ability cooldown.

Hope to see a healthy discussion.

While we are at it, could we change the exit vehicle button for USF so that it's not the same as the retreat button? Accidents happen sometimes when you quickly try to retreat a unit after microing a vehicle and you end up with your tank crew leaving the vehicle.

actually they don't, they even veted somehow


but leaving that aside pathfinder have a very different role and other utility

and as u can see from the test at long range they barely win and still lose at close and mid range, if u don0't want to make them cheaper than increase the dps at long range

I don't know how you conducted the test but it was not close range. I performed the regular pathfinders vs pioneers close range test and received the following: all pathfinders died, pioneers suffered ~30% hp damage, test distance was ~7. I used the range map and set the units in line with sandbags that I later removed - no cover.

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