Profile of Esxile

At the moment they give too much for their cost. You can have a heavy with a decent army size around while your opponent need to cut 30+ popcap only to counter them.

Not all heavy are problematic thought, only the generalists that are too good vs anything. Pershing IS2 and tigers (all variants) should have weaknesses and if people don't want to see their stats nerfed, then nerf their popcap, reduce the size of the supportive army around them.

If you're failing with 34/85 you are doing one of these things:

-Overextending
-not supporting with infantry
-attacking more pricey compositions then you have head on
-spamming it and nothing else, therefore making it easier for opponent to counter, especially with stugs

That's all that can be said here without a replay.

Well I did overextend in my first games using them, like I think anybody discovering your unit limits. Then I found myself keeping them away from the frontline because they couldn't really do much than soaking a bit of damage.

They are like said good overall tank and maybe it is not what I need with my own gameplay. I just wanted to know different opinions.
I find it better to get two specialized units: Katy + SU-85 after a T-70 or a fast T34-75 than 2 T34-85 which are spending too much time in repair in my hands.

*modern RTS, remember there is that nostalgia party called age of empires.

I'd also love a revamp version of Coh1 game design with some Coh2 improvment like vaulting on Coh3 game engine.

From the few games I played lately with in-game transaction, DOTA2 seems to be the best model to follow.
Monetization from Skin models, UI, voice model, voice event, screen loaders etc... I'm not against Relic making money from that.

Could be fun if pfaust were to be unlock before usage.

I have the feeling stats from the WCS 2019 will certainly shows that Heavy tanks are not in their right place at the moment. They bring too much in comparison with other doctrines and top players choose the best heavy tank doctrine regardless of faction because they know that.

Last tourney we had OKW special ops every match for a reason called command panther and now we have Pershing, Tiger or IS2 for the exact same reason. 1 unit micro able to do many things very well and enough resistant to mitigate your own mistakes to a certain extend. In two words: best value.

When you call a heavy tank, you pay and have it until it dies. When you call said P47 rocket run, you pay it and it last a moment and leave whenever all planes die or not. And then you have to pay for it again to use it.

Now in my opinion, if we would want to have the P47 rocket run (and all other variant from other factions) being competitive (as abilities available from doctrine) with heavy tank as they stand today, we should already apply the same logic. You pay for it until it dies. It doesn't necessarily mean the ability have to last until all planes die but you don't pay for it anymore until all planes die. The ability keeps the same duration, same cooldown but you don't pay munition until all planes die.

And even with that I'm not sure it would still be balanced, heavy tank can be repaired for free and get veterancy bonuses while abilities don't.

Another solution would be to simply remove heavy tanks from doctrines and put them in tech structure like the King Tiger. So we can elaborate balance around being sure everyone have access to them and balance doctrines around abilities and not those units.