No? You never want to place trucks close to each other because of artillery. Fully teching gives you access to the KT because if it was a call in then it would be abused and everyone would always go for that 1 KT commander.
The heavies would all be more balanced if they were tied to teching like it is, but right now with call in meta the KT deserves to be the best because it costs a fuckload compared to the call in tanks.
"close" means about a screen in this case.
the VI B is the best right now
In a 3 v 3 today one went down in seconds to the new super Jacksons with 240 damage mega penetration rounds.
It doesn't really seem to do much of anything now, it's too slow to get into the fight quickly, and now with the tank destroyer buff it seems pretty risky.
So I guess it's a defensive tank?
I really don't know how to use this thing effectively anymore.
bad RNG for you; i've had the opposite happen.
it wipes squads, does a lot of damage to tanks, and bounces a lot of shots. of course all of those are at least somewhat RNG based.
it works best as a defensive tank because it's harder to overextend. it works perfectly fine as a breakthrough tank if you have support right behind it though and make sure you don't overextend it.
it got a 50 armour nerf which, which has no significant effect on how it's used against soviets, and jacksons got a buff so it means you can't frontal rush jackson with it over large areas of open ground anymore. otherwise use it how you used to.