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Actually I believe the UI indicator was fixed during Mr Smiths time. The ability just sucks.

edit: Did a couple tests and it still looks like the payload is heavily weighted to the back half but not to the level of your screenshot.

Note that when i did the test, this was the limit at which the IL2 will track outside of what you would expect from the UI
I rechecked this couple of months before without much concern about how much further you could track and arrived at the same conclusions as you did.

Bad + bug = useless.

At this point, just scrap it and replace it with the IL2 rocket strafe.

I would be fine with Caches only counting for the player that builds them instead of instantly giving the entire team more resources, that way it doesn't impact 1v1 that much but still will have a profound effect on larger team games.

Adding to this, any player can "build on top" of the same point another cache. If not, it's more than likely you will have people griefing or QQ-ing because a teammate "stole" a point.

What is wrong with the classes?

I'm not gonna be giving an opinion in the subject rather than explaining why they have a polarising opinion on them.

This goes beyond this game and the genre. This can apply to MOBAS, FPS, fighting games, etc. A unit/ability which requires perfect input to do well, high risk/high reward, a really specific style of playing to counter, feels UNINTERACTIVE.
The one on the receiving end feels "cheated", while the one who's using it argues that his effort should be rewarded if not it's pointless to even try to use it. Then the game revolves around been able to counter the unit before it deals to enough damage.

If it's only from a watcher's perspective, this kind of things tends to be "exciting" as the results and influence of the units/abilities tend to be clear in what they achieve.

How this correlates to CoH?

In vCoH it was all about the sniper duels. Snipers who could cloak whenever they want and most of the time, the best counter to them is another sniper.
vCoH2 had snipers with less powerful cloak and they went with the assymetric route (at first) to remove the whole sniper vs sniper duels. The 2 new factions introduced some year later didn't receive any sniper at all and instead they got units which could crit (1 shot kill) if the model they were hitting were low enough in HP. People who hate snipers prefer this type of marksman squad.

The scott’s Current auto attack range is 80 (more than an Elephant by 10) so reducing the attack range to 50 (Stug G’s range) will make it a less powerful bleed tool while allowing it to do area denial at 80 range

AA range is 60. You are getting confused with barrage.