Profile of Fire and Terror

while I understand the recent Patch adressing howitzers, increasing their cooldown (becouse they would basically fire all the time). I feel like thier not worth it now becouse

1. Popcap Howitzers eat up 15 pop cap of you army making you able to fieldless units and having less game impakt(due to higher reload)#

2. Hardcounters by commanders .. recon plus stuka or mortar flare + bombing hardcounter those staic emplacements.

3. The lack of heavy tanks, you basically sacrifice other tools in order to have a howitzer so a direct comparison to non doc arty is misleading( becouse one can have tiger/is2 and kata/ werfer)

4. Some bugs which still havent been fixed ( like the 0sec cooldown). This seems to be a problem with vet also vet 1 priest barrage also seems broken.

I would suggest reducing the pop cap of the unit to 10/11/12, in order to make it possible to field some extra units. Its not the howitzer is cheap and if you have 15 pop sitting there doing nothing/ waiting for the hardcounter, while you have less units to coutner a heavy threat it seems unatracktive to even go that commander in the first place

i also play wher on a regular basis, but i dont use the cheese button, while i can understand it on 222, it kind of gets stupid when a tiger ace vet 3 gets away just becouse of it, and the terrible RNG that attack ground is

this thread wasnt about 60 range TDs becouse

balancing 60 range TDs around Ptac is stupid, the same way Ptac shoudnt be balanced around 60 range TDs.

The ability is just a cheap get out of Jail card if an is2 goes head to head into an Elefant, he gets stun shotted and killed (like it should), if a tiger goes head to head into 2 Su 85 he can just pop Panzertac and get away.

Both players did a big tactical error, but one got punished another didnt, this simply doesnt reward the player who played better.

Saying Ptac is doctrinal isnt an argument whatsoever, cons PTRS was doctrinal (in only one commander) and used to kill mgs frontally and it got toned down...

and saying smoke shells would be op for wher is BIG BS since such thing exists its called stuka smoke drop and costs 40 mun while also prviding recon (this ability is balanced)

The instant smoke cannisters on vehicles is just stupid (except okw flak truck). It easily is a free get out of jail free card for most vehicles. I would suggest having a wind up time of 2-5 sec before the vehicle gets enveloped in smoke.

This always bug me about their gun range.

IS2 starts with 12% less range, i assume is to balance between its 25% better front-half armor. But both vetted, IS2 gun range become as good as Tiger while maintaining its 25% better armor.

Oversight?

Beside IS2 got a small helpful change. From not so useful capture point to an offensive ability. While stug users have been crying about useless twp to no avail

3 Jacksons..., its not like an is2 can get away vs 3 stugs or jp4 or 2 panthers

its all about the support the tiger ace has