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It is cheap it is fast and it has buffed target size.
Stugg is very annoying to my FF.

It is relatively cheap, and it needs to be considering its performance; it's a great, mass-able T3-TD that can pretty much shut down any mediums if played correctly. However, it's not that great against heavies (170 far pen), so it really doesn't scale into late game (if those are present).

It's not that fast, either: Speed 6, Accel 2.1, Rotate 28. That's noticeably worse than an M36, only fractionally better than an SU85 (+0.3 speed, +6 rotation), but yes, noticeably better than an FF (although the FF has roughly 50% better rotation).

As for target size, it's fairly small (at 17), but it somewhat needs that, considering the other downsides.

Basically, it's a great medium tank counter, and that's about it.

as long as ATGs have the same range and damage as TDs I fail to see that TDs in "general" need changes, they work as intended, you people need to seriously get good.

ATGs lose a lot of their effectiveness in the late-game when artillery becomes available. In smaller games, it's mostly due to things like Pak-Howitzers, Scotts, and Walking Stukas, while in team games it's pretty much all rocket arty.

On paper, it's not a bad idea, imo. It would definitely move the panther more into the "anti-heavy" role it should be in, which is a good step forward in fixing the current TD/Panther meta.

However, I think that if this were implemented, the Panther would need an accuracy increase. Increasing damage but decreasing RoF is good, but it also means that every missed shot is more impactful.

It would likely need to be done at the same time as changes to the other 'meta' TDs, though, since OST currently relies fairly heavily on the Panther (and Tiger) to deal with them; so a nerf to the Panther's ability to fight mediums (which most TDs are) would be a direct buff to those TDs.

OST is getting a T4 bonus because it's currently struggling, especially in late-game. Additionally, T4 is currently seeing very little use, so the bonuses are being added to it as an incentive to build it.

Sov/USF/OKW/UKF currently don't have issues with late-game scaling, not do they see their 'T4' being underutilized. Simply put, they don't need any bonuses.

I think you're heavily undervaluing manpower bleed.

In isolation, the Sherman is a better pick against the Ostwind than the Jackson. The Sherman will deal with the Ostwind and then contribute its hefty anti-infantry firepower to the battle. The Jackson will deal with the Ostwind, then do nothing until another tank shows up.

This applies more broadly: you want enough AT to deal with the enemy tanks, then stack the rest of your army with as much manpower bleed as you can. Investing in a load of AT you don't need is suboptimal play.

Tank destroyers are a reaction to the enemy composition. We see it so much because the dominance of the heavy tank meta since the Mobidef nerfs made it necessary: if you need two Tank Destroyers to kill a heavy, you're going to build two tank destroyers. And there goes 38% of your popcap.

Cutting the Tiger down to 960 makes one tank destroyer that much more able to deal with it, freeing up that popcap and those resources for other vehicles. It might, ironically enough, reduce the number of 60 range TDs fieled.

Completely disagree.

Provided you don't know what your opponent is going to build, an M36 is always the best choice.

Let's take your Ostwind/Sherman example. The Sherman does give more AI power, which is nice, but is vulnerable to any other OST vehicle from T3, or a panther, or most call-ins. Meanwhile, the M36 isn't vulnerable to those vehicles (when correctly micro'd).

As a result, the safest option is to preemptively build an M36, since this will invalidate any vehicle OST goes for, forcing them to either heavily invest in AT-focused tanks (STUGs, Pathers) or more heavily invest in AT-Infantry. For the former, the solution is simply more M36s, and for the later, your infantry should counter them.

The current Tiger HP gives OST a generalist solution to the problem, since it has enough HP to somewhat resist TDs, but also allows for the vehicle based AI that OST needs to survive late-game. Nerfing the Tiger's HP removes that, forcing the situation I described above.

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I don't say this lightly, but the only solution to the current "60 TD Meta" is literally a rework of every tank in the game. We're currently stuck in a situation where either "60 TDs" are the obvious pick in every situation, or they're nerfed to the point where the game is unplayable. This needs to be fixed; and the only way to do this is by completely reworking how every vehicles relates to each other.