Profile of ThoseDeafMutes

That is just pure insanity. At current state i can walk my infantry next to enemy panther as it was a sheep on the battlefield. I understand that it is good in AT, and you should be forced to choose between AI and AT, but infantry should not just be able to ignore it as a threat.
By any logic no armor unit should be just a walkower for infantry.
Same for US tank destroyer.

There is no real world logic involved here, just game balance really. It's "stupid" that any armored vehicle with multiple mounted machineguns would be unable to cope with infantry, but that's the way it's kind of always been in CoH. Some vehicles get good MGs for no particular reason other than because it's "supposed" to be good at anti-infantry. The idea of a swarm of shrek armed infantry being a serious threat to a sherman tank at max range is implicitly absurd, not only because of its tank gun but because of the coaxial and top-mounted machineguns that would shred the charging infantry in a nanosecond. A stuart tank has THREE 30 cal machineguns on it, which would by any logic obliterate all infantry formations coming in range.

The Panther is not in a bad spot. Somewhat better AT than the comet, significantly worse AI, 10 fuel cheaper. T4 is generally underwhelming but the Panther isn't the problem.

I'd also like to see better stats and post-match info. Would be great to see something like an NBA shot chart or MLB spray chart overlayed on the map showing where kills happened. Kills/damage dealt should also go on the chart at the end. I'd also like the ability to track stats for individual squads rather than just by unit type.

For self analysis what I'd really like is a chart that would log each player's cumulative resource income in real time.

Stuff like that would help you work out e.g. how much of a resource lead somebody got by holding certain points in a replay for a certain amount of time.

CoH1 could be highly innovative because there were no expectations on it, it was a brand new series. When you make CoH2 you have to have a lot in common with the first game, otherwise you're not making CoH2, you're just making some other RTS with the same name.

Once you've established that your series has a core DNA, you start variations on a theme. The core of the game is the leitmotif showing up in every entry and then you try to do something interesting with it each time. Too little and its repetitive, too much and its inconsistent.

CoH2 featured a lot of ideas that sounded cool, but were ultimately not fun or hampered the experience. Cold tech was good and bad in equal measure, the blizzard blocking line of sight was tactically interesting, while having to make sure all your units were huddled around fires was NOT, it was just boring and slowed everything down. The death blow was that it tanked performance on some computers too, all these computer cycles dedicated to a mediocre gameplay variation overall.

CoH2 does have unambiguously positive changes, reverse hotkey is great, grid hotkeys are good (but no rebinds WHY), vaulting over obstacles is good, lack of zombie bunkers and purchased global vet were good changes. There were also bad changes, like making alerts and UI messages harder to see, cancerous levels of DLC that actually impact game balance (Commanders should NEVER have been unavailble to anyone), redundant commanders / commander "hand" system being inferior to the old 3 trees system and so on.

2 steps forward one step back.

So I was just thinking about how nice it would be if the reverse hotkey was actually built into the game more casually - like Left mouse is select, Right mouse is move, and middle mouse is reverse move (for vehicles). Middle mouse is used for camera panning, but I think reverse move would probably be more useful. Adding custom keybinds for that kind of thing might be good (can we do this already? I couldn't see anything in the menu last time I looked but i might be remembering it wrong).

The other thing would be making alerts more visible, as pointed out by this post:

https://www.coh2.org/topic/51897/minimalistic-ui/post/521468

What other nice to have changes do you think you'd like in this or future CoH games?

Make it 100 fuel and give it a gun comparable to the Sherman (without HE and no MG upgrade) and the Cromwell (but it's not as fast as crom).