Profile of Strummingbird

except ISU does it on the regular. Also a brummbar (lets be honest how often do you actually see one.)and sturm tiger cannot squad wipe from the fog, the ISU's range is way longer, you gotta drive a sturm tiger in pretty close to do anything with it, plus its animation is telegraphed as hell, and it has to reload for a minute. the ISU is in a squad wiping league of its own.

Brummbar is pretty terrible at wiping squads now as far as I can tell, and the Sturmtiger can wipe from the fog quite easily since it fires from 45 range (think normal vision is 35-40) and can track targets. You're right in that the ISU is way above and beyond either of the two, though.

Spec Ops doctrine is my most picked commander for OKW (in a 1v1 setting). I go for it as soon as possible immediately at 10CP, or shortly after- T1-T3-Luchs-Command Panther, T1-T2-Stuka-Command Panther, that sort of thing.

Coordinated fire is not an increase in just accuracy. It's equal to the old mark target for a shorter duration and much, much cheaper, meaning the target takes 240 damage per shot from the Command Panther, AND 50% more damage from every other source- 240 from raketens, 160 from shrecks, etc etc. This means you don't need to have armor on the field to make it worthwhile- it can two-shot Jacksons, three-shot Easy Eights, four-shot T3485s, and go toe to toe with IS2s head on for the duration of the effect. And it costs just as much as a grenade (35 or 45 munitions), which means you can spam it every time the enemy pokes with his tanks or vice versa.

In addition it can self-sight for the full 50 range, one of the reasons why the Puma is so effective and good at kiting, unlike the normal Panther which can't really take advantage of it's longer range.

Hagen is incorrect as well- the Cmd Panther uses the exact same accuracy as the normal Panther too. So there's that.

And of course there's the aura... Least useful part of the unit, ironically, but it's still a nice bonus to get from what's already a very capable tank destroyer compared to the regular panther.

In my opinion- well worth the price (only 25 fuel more after all). Only downside is reduced veterancy bonuses, but I've never had Panthers OR Command Panthers get the chance to get more than vet 3 in a 1v1 often anyway due to the game ending, so that's a very negligible downside.

Oddly enough I was just going to post this game and ask how to beat those LMG grens and Paks... the lethality of those units is insane.

had the whole map, stole an MG, stole the Pak, traded off an M10 and a Sherman for two StuG Es- not the best trade, but considering I was miles ahead in fuel, not too bad either... then LMGs ran right over my army and that was that.

When will this ability be fixed on AT guns? It has been broken for ages now. Both on the pak 40 and pak 43. It always mis-fires. Its extremely silly to still have this ability available, but not functional. I'm sure its frustrating for new players who don't know its broken.

I mean I can't be the only one not seeing this just being tossed a side and being forgotten about right?

As much as I would like this to be fixed, it would result in the Pak overperforming to the point of brokenness, I think. The Pak is already the best AT gun ingame, and vets up extremely quick- having one able to singlehandedly stun and kill any piece of medium armor, and in pairs chain-stunning kill every piece of armor in the game, would be silly. Maybe the tooltip could be changed, or the shell given increased penetration or a guaranteed hit and description changed or something.

I may be wrong, but iirc Partisans, Irregulars, and Osttruppen have 50% increased incoming accuracy. They might have 80 health, but it goes down twice as fast.

Not anymore, they certainly don't drop as fast as old partisans did... and anyway 50% increased incoming damage would mean they died 1.5 times faster than normal, not twice as fast