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I do agree that the aura shouldn't become stronger with vet.

However, I have not yet seen a command panther past vet 2 (luckily) so I cannot really comment on how strong it is, but judging from the stats in the game it is indeed very strong.

The concentrated fire ability however seems too strong for the cost.

The commander it comes in is a bit of a mis-match, seeing as it has an upgrade for obers which need to be build in t4, but also a call-in which rather replaces a same unit out of t4. The point here being that taking full effect of this commander requires t4 which deminished the effect of going for the call-in command panther.

I agree that the commander is a tad odd in that it encourages to forgo t4 because you can get a superior panther without the need for the tech structure. However, I would argue that the argument regarding the diminishing effect doesn't really hold since the difference in cost to a vanilla panther is 25 fuel and 70 manpower (completely neglecting the cost for t4), hardly anything that would make you think twice and it's hardly anything that would prevent you from getting t4 either before getting the command panther or after. The difference can be more of a hurdle in 1v1 but in anything else, the difference is not a big hurdle.

The only other issue I see is that the unit scouts for itself and doesn't require any unit for support. This is okay for scout units like a puma, stuart or t70 but for heavy units it defeats the point of advertising combined arms.

4) agreed

Elite infantry beats rifles, even rifles with double bars. Double bars have about the damage output of 1 lmg42 at max range.

The only issue is double 1919s on rifles and that's not an issue with rifles but an issue with the fact that you can get double 1919s on rifles.

So, let me get this straight:

Say there's a vet 2 rifle squad with 5 guys. Just shot a Jerry sniper and now is vet 3.
Assuming that all 5 models were reinforced while the squad was vet 2, do all men get vet 1/2/3 bonuses, or do they only get vet 3 bonuses after reaching vet 3?

According to Cruzz, this veterancy issue does not apply to received accuracy except for the listed squads?

When this is changed, this will make the mid/late game more lethal, in general?

I remember a similar issue occurred a year, maybe a year and a half ago where veterancy wasn't applied. Am I correct in that?

If I understood Cruzzi right, only the models in your squad will get vet 2 and 3 (offensive bonuses) if they lived through those. So the guy that joined the squad at vet 2 and then the squad reaches vet 3, will only have the vet 3 bonuses.

Yes, for all other squads the received accuracy bonus is transfered to new models as well. Only USF officiers will be the same at vet 0 as they are at vet 3 apparently

So the only useful infantry vet for UKF is Vickers and Vet3 Engies? Everything else degrades or effectively doesn't exist in the first place if you reinforce a 1 man squad.

With the fix to scoped enfields in the next pactch, tommies are actually going to be one of the few vet 3 infantry squads that do get an offensive bonus, that is if I understood it right.

All other factions seem way worse off.

Even if the plane flew like the soviet version over the enemy base, it wouldn't make much of a difference since the plane is invulnerable and cannot be shot down by aa, unlike it's soviet counterpart.