Profile of Cardboard Tank

Imo you can't adjust the Jackson (a lategame unit) without adjusting the Wehr Panther (lategame unit of the weakest faction). The patch is deemed to fail thanks to the so called scope. I can't imagine that not at least a single person of the people responsible for the scope are reading this thread. The issue is well known.

That is probably the best that could have happened, imagine a nerf to the StuG without anything else. Oh well, since we all don't have the clarity of vision Relic has, I guess we can never know the true glorious masterplan they have for this game...

A nerf to the StuG would have killed Ostheer from the game. However not buffing the Panther keeps T4 out of the game.

I just want to make sure whether I'm the onyl one experiencing this. And especially with this other thread about revamping the factions for the new patch which will further decrease the effectiveness of Ostheer in many regards (StuG nerf, Elefant nerf, Pak target weakpoint nerf, nerfing Panthers vet), I'm afraid Ostheer will become unplayable.

1) Currently 2vs2s have dumbed down to ever increasing medium tank spam in which all allied factions outperform the Ostheer. It's hardly possible to compete with this. The StuG is the last grasp to win but will get seriously ouperformed by the 60 range TDs of the Allies. And this medium tank spam - which Ostheer struggles to fight - will be made worse with the Elefant damage nerf, no target weakpoint and less StuG penetration.

2) Artillery pretty much counters the whole Ostheer faction. Be it a mortar pit or a Land matress or Katjuscha later. The support weapons which Ostheer needs are easily deleted. And there is hardly a way to counter that as Ostheer.

3) Ostheer still doesnt have any advantage in the infantry department. Penals pretty much destroyed any chance of fighting infantry without an MG42 nearby.

TL;DR: Ostheer is on the backfoot on all stages of the game. Even lategame. It needs adjustments to IMPROVE the faction. Not nerf it further.

The Elefant has already been nerfed from 100 range to 70 range. Now it´s not even supposed to coutner medium tanks which already kill it off easily? The Elfeant is punished enough with being LITERALLY the slowest most unmaneuvarable vehicle in the game. With the intended changes it wouldn´t be able to fight anything effectively. Churchills have the HP pool and everythign else swarms it. Some wannabe AI ability to compensate? RIP Elefant.

^Relic added stuka dive bomb for those situations.

What kind of argument is that? What am I supposed to do in the 95% of the situations I don´t have the divebomb? It´s like telling a US player who can´t coutner the Tiger Ace to use M10s or lose the game in the other cases.