Profile of nee

I don't see what's the problem. You'd need a good team to actually take advantage of the Command Panther's buff aura to begin with, and might I add the more vehicles the merrier. Impossible to get to vet5 unless microing the Panther and spamming Sturmpioniers with repair upgrade is all you do in a game, most especially if in a larger game setting where it is easier to be swarmed by enemy armour at once. Never mind the higher cost and late-game unlock, where I am always torn between calling it in after my first Panther, but which almost ensures I have to wait for another long time on top of fuel transfer. And remember, the Command Panther gets vet for combat itself contributes to, not like USF officers who can soak XP from units around them.

I've always thought the buff aura is rather large though, what are it's exact radius stats? It seems huge, even on larger maps. Perhaps a slight reduction will encourage nearby vehicles to stick around closer, or at least make the Command Panther operate in a fire-brigade cheerleader role. The Pz4 Command Tank lacks firepower so it's pretty much forced to be in placed in the rear.

the reason why i am frustrated by CAS in 2v2+ has a lot to do with a lot.

1. single passes basically do not have a counter (except dodging). no AA unit can even remotely reliably counter it. so the single passes are basically glorified arty call in. but with kamikaze possibilities. using that logic, lets compare it to other call in arties. obviously, if you disagree with me here, there is no real reason to read further.

light artillery barrage is weak but come down quick due to its weak damage. railway strike, while doing absolutely mental amount of damage, comes down much slower because of that. no such logic with single passes. again, that should be fine if there is another factor that plays into countering these abilities.

so to me, this it's dodgeable counter argument doesnt really carry any weight. the question rather should be: just because allied player was inattentive for 2-4 sec, does he deserve to lose 640hp tank almost always? is single pass inf insta pin fair?

i don't think it is but thats just me.

I agree, when I first say CAS I was like pfft single strafe? No thanks, I'll save muni for something better. Then it turns out that for that amount of munitions (coupled with the INSTANT fuel conversion), plus much harder to dodge plane strikes, the effects are even better than loitering, which effectively cancels out the ability, at least for a while.
If it were up to me, the airstrikes should be more like short artillery support abilities. Imagine it this way, a Soviet doctrine utilizing the same abilities: a single but quick and immediate Fear Propaganda arty strike, or an off-map precision strike, we'd all agree that's near if not total BS.
It's dodgeable yes, but dodgeable in the sense that you can also dodge a hail of machine gun fire as long as you're 100 metres away. Good luck.

Well, the argument isn't that RNG trumps skill, just that plane crashes and critical hits are very frustrating.

So is trying to solo a King Tiger with one depleted Guards squad

It's a nice map, but the players on the left side will be going at it alone since that part of the map s much more spaced out and n buildings. Every time I played it, most of the action was on the right side, and the dude on the left is always trying to defend the entire left half.

Excited to tell us about CoH2 being worked on. Yay jazz hands...