I have to say, the tiger ace isn't a gamechanger. Since it is unlocked at 16 cp, it is a very late game call in, and by that time most russian players will have enough SU-85 and at guns to take it down. Yes, you can still blitzkrieg with it, but if you call in the tiger ace to win, it usually means you have very few armor left in your army and hence it will be unsupported in its rush towards the enemy base, or its fighting in the middle VP. If you happen to have a very good combined force of tanks behind it, it becomes redundant. If you didn't lose units you were probably going to win the game anyway. It will almost never change the outcome of a match.
The vanilla tiger is ten times more efficient and is always my first choice in 1v1s and 2v2s. |
It is an op doctrine, designed for newbs. Even if you lock them early game, blocking off the fuel, obtaining 2 VPs, they pull out dozens of tanks, and germans hence lose ground. By the time you bring out the heavier tanks, they already have a death squadron waiting for you, making the game almost impossible to win, if not for a lucky Tiger Ace push; in fact, you can't take the entire enemy team with just one tank, even if you support it with panzershreks, vet grens, pioneers ready to repair. The infamous ram the soviets do also push you back several minutes, as they either blow up your main gun or engine, or sometimes both. By the time you have repaired your Tiger Ace, they have pulled out another 2-3 tanks, making it then impossible to win. They seriously need to nerf it or provide the germans with a more valid counter. |