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I agree that the E8 should be better but i absolutely dont see no reason to include it in an "Urban Assault" commander. There are several units that would need a buff - for example KT, IS-2, Ostwind - and still dont get touched. Make them better in a seperate "balance patch", so over- underperforming units dont need to be part of a revamp / new commander. These changes could be included in the new mod versions and tested properly.

BAck to E8:
I could even live with the E8 in "Urban Assault" if USF wouldnt have other doctrines which offer premium mediums or the Pershing. USF cant have best light vehicles, super strong elite infantry, the best non doc TD AND better mediums in most doctrines. USF's weakness is and should always be the tank department. If you take that away the faction is way too strong.

About Calliope: He should just be brought to the same performance and cost level as the Wehrmacht's Raketenwerfer then the unit would be very valuable in teamgames.

But the armor weakness for usf is always there. If you choose heavy tank you dont have doctrinal medium tank or rocket arty, if you choose better medium tank this will be the strongest tank you can get while opponent has nondoctrinal heavy tanks and rocket arty. You are always limited by the doctrine you choose.
This doctrine would lock you out of heavy tank and off map arty strikes, there is a trade off.

You say easy8 should be better but people behind balance dont think that way. Just look at calliope after rework, still the worst rocket artillery in game by a far margin AND MOST EXPENSIVE. There wont be meaningful easy8 rework so we can at least include it in this commander to get rid off jackson and 75mm sherman spam.

Im sorry but i just want to use different units without being forced into game losing doctrines. This new usf commander proposal is simply boring, if you cant see it i cant help you.

I would suggest reading more carefully, because this is what I have written and you have posted something completely different:
Easy8s is a much more cost efficient counter to PzIV than Panther is to allied mediums.

"i dont know what is so hard to understand here."

And No Easy8 will not make a good addition to the commander it does not fit the Commander thematically and the commander should not have a premium medium and Rocket artillery.

One of abilities will be useless in 1vs1 while the commander will bring too much to the table in 4vs4.

Easy8 is not a counter to p4 just like p4 is not a counter to 75mm sherman. Read more carefuly.

Easy8 will make great addition to this commander since it doesnt fit urban assault theme anyway with its current abilities. At this point its about making this commander viable.

Easy8 is not premium medium tank (that would be panther and comet), its just a standard medium. And its only your imagination that calliope and easy8 cant be put in the same commander, unless you show us someone from relic claiming that.

Calliope will be useless no matter what, its far worse than katyusha and mattress while costing much more, thats why so many people want easy8, so the commander doesnt rely entirely on trash unit that is calliope.

Many people in usf commander thread expressed that they would like to see easy8 here. Just because few haters try to make this commander as weak as possible with their "suggestions" doesnt mean that this bad influence should be taken into account.

Cav on Dodge is all about cheese, or you succeed in wiping stuff fast early game or you end with 2 units that become more of a burden with time.

Panther counters Ez8, nothing wrong here. But Ez8 remains a good thread to Panther if picked out of cover and can defend itself in most situation that doesn't involve you having over extended. Ez8 is a good compromise to deal reasonable infantry damage and not being such an easy target for panther. OKW player is in the same situation here, he can't really go for Pz4 vs your Ez8 thus less AI potential.

Its as cheesy as soviet clowncar. 200mp unit becoming burden after winning you the early game is good trade. Cav rifles become anything but useless with vet.

Yes, easy8 can threaten panther if axis player reverses into battle with "hold fire" enabled. Panther has better fire rate and is faster, even with rear armor exposed it will win with easy8, and if it somehow got low it can just drive away, not even counting combat blitz here.

You cant honestly compare panther countering easy8 to easy8 "countering" p4. Easy8 counters p4 about as much as p4 counters sherman. Its a standard medium tank ffs.

Mechanized is a cheese strat vs OKW because if you fail with your dodge/Cav there is nothing else in the doctrine. It is popular today because of the dodge bug but that pretty much all.

A commander with Ranger, Ez8 and Calliope gives you the upper hand on infantry fight with the rangers, Ez8 denying the Pz4 and remains a good compromise vs Panther while still dealing good damage vs infantry and the Calliope to harass his trucks.

OKW is broken at the moment, all 3 allied factions are forced to use cheese early vehicle strat to counter the volkspam should be balance team's first consideration instead of new commanders.

Mechanized strenght vs okw has nothing to do with any bugs, its all about wc51 and cav rifles synergy.

Easy8 is countered hard by panther, its slower than 75mm and has no chance to deflect shots while struggling to penetrate. You are hyping this combination so much but in reality its weaker than heavy cav (while requiring tons of fuel).

You know very well they wont fix any of the broken okw stuff. Command panther will stay, just as volks spam, jli and now even double schrek 250mp inf and call in tiger. Usf needs good stuff to counter this.

You're assuming people would still insta pick early game counters even if they can have elite infantry + premium tank + calliope?

Ofcourse, almost nothing changed since usf rework and commander revamp when it comes to usf vs okw early game EXCEPT new commanders with strong early call in units. If you choose to play, lets say, heavy cav you still have the same bad early game matchup against okw which puts you behind when you reach mid and late game. Thats why most people switched from instalocking heavy cav to things like mechanized or armor. These doctrines are pretty much the only "fix" usf got in terms of their viability against okw early game dominance.

Now look at this commander. We have rifle nades for REs which are cool but in no way help you defend against volks blob, its more of a supporting tool. Next, 2 abilities copied from heavy cav, pretty good but in no way help you survive early game, and there is good chance you will have your full infantry roster at 3cp so rangers might be not needed this late. Then there is dozer blade, no comment... And last, calliope, which one of these units can turn game around in your opinion, pershing or calliope? I think its clear.

If you change dozer blade with easy8 you get more variety in terms of armor, but not raw strenght increase. When you tech to tier3, which you should do as soon as possible with this commander, you will probably want 75mm to deal with vetted volks and obers. Next vehicle you will want is probably jackson to deal with panzer4s and very possible at that point panther. There is little room for easy8, its not good enough to be obvious pick over 75mm and has some serious drawbacks (low mobility, slow reload, not so great survivability).

But the most importand reason why easy8 wouldnt be broken here is that ITS NOT A CALL IN UNIT. Its the meta for some time now, even if you look at the previous team tournament (the one with 5k$ prize) you can see that doctrines with call ins are prefered even in team games, armored assault every game is good example. When it comes to 1v1 its even worse, its all about command panther, is2, kv2, command p4, tiger. USF is forced to go armor or mechanized vs okw but pershing is still good vs ost becasue you dont get murdered in early game and you get precious call in vehicle. Easy8, being somewhere around okw p4 and t34/85, requiring tech is simply no match for these strategies, at least not alone. Now compare fuel cost to deploy stuka + c panthers vs calliope + easy8. Which one of these combinations is stronger? Which one is cheaper? Remember, no need for tier3 for okw. In realistic 1v1 scenario spec ops is still much stronger doctrine.

And please stop calling easy8 "premium tank", its as premium as okw p4 or t34/85, and nobody calls them premium for some reason.