Profile of Imagelessbean

remove it and replace it with 10% faster reload. It fits much better

No.

Many bulletins are useless. This is one of them. Sharpen those claws is also up there (increase JT penetration).

You cannot unlock them (yet) without ridiculous luck or spending extra money.
People with these commanders CLEARLY have a advantage. There is no way anyone can deny that.

This is the most disappointing thing for me. I have thousands of man hours played, never bought a commander, and have less than half of available commanders. As a result, I often play against commanders for which I simply don't feel prepared. I understand having new players exposed to a more limited pool to help them learn the ropes while their rank is low, but commanders should have been made free to players who spend tons of time in the game rather quickly to prevent the P2W arguments, which I think fairly, stuck to the game.

We talked about this commander in a thread shortly after it came out. It is clearly too good and will be nerfed when they stop breaking/unbreaking/breaking the game with hotfixes.

Waits for me are now approaching or exceeding 15 minutes. There should be a cutoff after 5 minutes of placing you in the next available match. This is just crazy.

OK a couple of points that seem missed here. First the ability only unlocks with cp's, 4 if I remember correctly. So it actually does have a cost and it isn't available all that early. Second, which a lot of people seem to forget, any unit that has counter battery toggled on, can't do anything else. That includes base structures that while country battery is active cannot produce units. That's a big opportunity cost right there, especially with a cooldown of 30 second everytime you swap counter battery on or off. You either have fire active, you produce units. Also fire from infantry flares is not available. Third, the mortar counter battery is laughable in the low amount of damage it does. The only fire that is actually dangerous is the fire from the base howies. And if you can't shoot and scoot, you do kinda deserve to loose units to it.

It costs the player 0 resources to unlock cps. They are awarded for time spent in the game. 4 cps is quite early that is not terribly different from when the 1st stuka (if you push it) or 2nd ISG arrives (if you are playing against heavy fortifications that is probably your go to).

Production of units from base structures is irrelevant since the commander is designed to get you around that with IS that can build emplacements, and so much emphasis on building and maintaining emplacements.

The time it takes to cool down the ability is the time it takes to build units, so the cost is...0. You were going to build a unit, so while doing that you don't counterbarrage. As soon as the unit is constructed you turn it right back on.

The ability is not laughable in damage (I don't understand why you would ever use counter battery on a mortar that already outranges all other mortars and will engage them as soon as it "sees" them), only in accuracy. But since it fires all game long you will start to bleed MP. Especially in team games where other units can be hit at the same time by missed shells. It is not a threat to rocket arty, which fires and moves, but it is devastating to all standard mortar type artillery.

Its potency on smaller maps is huge, where it can fire nearly into or into your base. All this and it costs 0 munitions so they can keep upgrading their infantry to beat you in a toe to toe fight.