Profile of Nuclear Arbitor

No,not as long as 120 mm mortar and katyusha exists and panzerwerfer/lefh being what it is.

pwerfer is ok, just build 4 and drive them really close and fire them all at once or in pairs.

whether or not the jpIV get's vet depends almost entirely on the enemy. if it's well used it won't die and just has to wait to be fed vet. in a 1v1 it probably won't get vet 5 but it very, very effective at vet 2 or 3. in 3v3/4v4s they can easily reach vet 5.

the jpIV is also one of the few OKW vehicles to come out in the early/mid game (although it's not really needed early) but that allows it to have a LOT of field presence if the enemy gets tanks and makes it easier to get vet.

as far as killing vehicles goes... because of their mobility (and cost) vehicles generally either die or kill. they don't spend much time being useless in the back unless its a TD that's already killed of all enemy vehicles. they cost way too much and are far to effective to not use them when ever possible. additionally, because they require only time (and a repair squad) to heal, they don't cause significant bleed unless they die so even if they get damaged you haven't done anything unless you actually kill the vehicle and this means that people are more careless with them then they would be if they bleed mp. if repairing cost mp AT damage would be more significant than just getting vet to have a better chance to actually kill the vehicle.

if you compare infantry to vehicles you can force infantry off by causing (or threatening) bleed, threatening a wipe, or suppressing. vehicles can only be forced off by threatening a wipe because they neither bleed nor can they be suppressed. additionally, while infantry can be "snared" with suppression, the only snares that work against vehicles are mines and AT grenades (plus misc things like TWP and crew shaken).

tl;dr: vehicles only care about damage and snares where as infantry are much more expensive to keep alive and care about a lot more things.

models that attach to squads to provide benefits, like embedded medics or officers.

significant squad upgrades with special weapons and abilities.

basically all the stuff that dow2 had that made it a lot of fun. this includes eldar.

guys, a hard counter is a unit that preforms better than its cost implies in a comparison between that unit and another. a pak is a hardcounter to tanks and a jackson is a hardcounter to tanks (including the tiger) but that doesn't mean that they always beat tanks. this isn't rock paper scissors; in this case scissors can driver around rock and kill it even though rock still hard counters scissors.

a unit can be a counter (hard or soft) through an ability although obviously how firm the counter is will depend on the unit/ability, just like flanking or smoking an AT gun.

spell check, save me from scissors!

couple of things.

one, damage increasing abilities/vet should not be in the game; they fuck with the very carefully setup damage standards.

two, the jpIV should not be able to cloak in combat. that probably means giving cloak a longer cooldown and/or larger radius in which enemy units cannot be. the cloak is both very effective offensively and very effective defensively (as long as the jpIV isn't taking fire you can pop it to hide it from surprises).

three, the jpIV is a decent TD at vet 0 and is massively OP by vet 5. the whole vet 5 system was a bad idea because it's very, very hard to balance and relic sucks at balancing.