What I see is this commander ability is great at actually countering Axis meta. I don't understand why people still build arty and mortars vs the commander and not T3-stugs as Ostheer or t2-Puma fast T3-Pz4 as OKW.
This topic scare me a lot about you not being able to adapt to a certain situation. Emplacements can't do shit vs stugs, every time I go Stugs and everytime I destroy them. i force him to brace, destroy the forwarded assembly and then emplacements when brace ends.
But as OKW you don't have access to Stug. From first 2 tiers, you can get only ISGs and Stuka since 251/17 and Puma are amost insta killed by Bofors.
The only problem is counter battery.
Had a game on faymonville. Enemy put Pit in the the middle and Bofors in front. I used it to my advantage and cap left and right side but still for few mins I could not do anything.
Finally I built med truck, took ISG, but it in base and start to shooting at Bofors. Few secs later Counter battery hit my base. BASE. It was like 2 shoots from ISG and I had to insta move to prevent losses. In 3-4 mins my med and rep station were brought to 50% HP because CB could target my base.
But yea, let's nefr HP bonus