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Swapping the durability and rate of fire of the panther and stug may prove to be worthwhile, though likely distasteful to the powers that be.

What i mean is ro reduce the health of the panther to 720 like other "advanced mediums" as they're being called. The vet 2 health bonus could be reduced or even removed as well. Give the panther a rate of fire like stugs.

Reduce stug rate of fire to current panther levels, and boost its health and armor to match the p4.

I toyed around with this in a test mod and I felt it functioned rather well. Osheer suddenly had a unit that could buy time and field presence without being a total crutch, and the panther became a frightening tank hunter, but not a damage sponge.

But it's a significant change that would require serious playtesting, which isn't really possible.

Wouldn't the Panther then be more powerful in most cases to overrun most tanks and win most DPS races while packing superior health and armour?

Unless you're getting hit by snares or non-160/200 weapons, you're just as durable against the majority of weapons as you are at 800 hp and now you have a tank that puts out a round every 4-5 seconds with 320 armour and one of the fastest speeds. StuG G at that point might as well be a SU-85 or Jagpanzer IV and 560-640 hp is mainly a change vs 200+ damage TD from 3 to 4.

Not that I particularly doubt you, but can you show me the math behind that?

Well, I don't have the math, but from my observations over the course of the game's life and my familiarity with the USF early game, the game favours weapons with higher damage models to quickly burst down other models/vehicles unless your name is Conscript Mosins which is neither accurate enough or fires fast enough to compensate for bad rolls. Dead units and models don't contribute to DPS so even if the Garand has the ability to quickly rack up damage when given time, whether you will have those models in actuality is something else entirely given a volley from a Volks squad can deal anywhere from 12 to 60 while a full volley from an M1 Garand deals 8 to 40 and in a game of fluid movement, whether you have time to actually get that many number of shots off is another question depending on the situation.

The DPS between the two rifles aren't incredibly different on paper, but the Kar98k's ability to deal significantly more damage in a shorter span of time allows it kill off the models that quickly expose themselves out of cover for those short periods. Higher accuracy might be a placebo effect on me, but I find Volks generally do better vs units in cover.

Volks Kar 98k Accuracy

0/25/35

0.748/713/0.679

Riflemen Accuracy

0/16/35

0.713/0.667/0.5175

Mid accuracy isn't the greatest difference when you have things like cooldown, ROF, etc which allows Rifles to somewhat compensate for their range profile. When you look at where both rifles reach their mid range, you need to be closer with Rifles to reach that 66% at 16m vs the Volks 71% at 25m.

TLDR: Burst damage is generally far better to have those sudden spikes, particularly during infantry combat where your DPS drops as models get lost unless it's late game and both sides have upgrades. You want to drop those models ASAP to kill off the other side's DPS rather than chipping their health steadily overtime. Higher damage and accuracy rifles do the sniping models thing better than the M1 Garand.

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Volksgrenadiers will likely have their weapon slots looked. Of course more commander stuff is also on the way, and hopefully, that big adjustment to friendly-fire AOE which is all over the place.

M36 Jackson Tank Destroyer
To improve the Jackson's tank hunter capabilities

Yeah TD that afraid of p4 dive.

Try dive vs Jp4 or Stug.

Use the reverse button, I hear it helps for the fastest 640hp TD in the game whose main attributes are accuracy on the move, acceleration and speed. The thing has never has been meant to demolish medium tanks super quickly since its damage got dropped from 240 to 200 ages ago. If you really want something dead, use HVAP which still retains the higher damage of days bygone.

Diving the other two means not being in front of them.

A PIV can also beat a stock Firefly if they both started at range 40 because it shoots faster.

I wasn't able to really judge. Most units the Dshka fired on were generally leaping into heavy cover. May be the fact, however, the Dhska is killing models to0 fast for suppression to hit before they reach those positions.

Poor wording on my end, but the anti-building barrage now targets anywhere. Essentially an incendiary barrage that deals good damage to ambient structures while it denies an area for a period of time.