Profile of Grumpy

I wonder what require more skills, blobbing or pushing a button to delete everything it targets on a unit that can roam around easily due to its high armor and high HP.

This unit is like a blob on itself. But a good old fashioned blob that delete everything on its path.

I think part of the problem is that the amount of effort you need to put just to counter that unit is definitively too high vs the amount of effort to get benefit from it. Even if you manage to catch it off-guard with appropriate counters you need like 30 seconds to destroy it. And this not counting on the potential support the player can bring during this time.

It is not that I'm against a nuke unit, but it must be a unit with various flaws exploitable by the opponent. Not what it is actually.
For instance the decrew if damaged while reloading was an interesting mechanism even if flawed. So instead of simply removed it, why not having change the decrew by something else like a damage modifier giving +100% received damage while reloading. So the opponent has a windows of opportunity to deal with it quickly and force the owner of the unit to be much more careful after a shot.
Oh and put back the manual reload, so the owner has a bit more to do than just going forth and back and until pushing the hit button.

The video I posted was probably a little misleading. The wind-up takes awhile so you have to guess where they're going to be. I disabled the FOW in the replay. The player probably would've been able to save some of his Penals if he full retreated instead of soft retreated. Still the result was as hilarious as the blob of five Penals was annoying. If there was a Sturmtiger hall of fame, this shot would have to be in it as I got 32 models in one shot.

The Sturmtiger still has manual reload, but that isn't the problem with it. If you time it perfectly, the shot can come out of the FOW and wipe a squad before you can react. I haven't got that good with it yet, but promise to keep trying until they nerf the range. The other problem is the guided-missile grenades that it shoots. When playing against a Sturmtiger, I've closed in on it but was unable to finish it on several occasions because the guided-missile grenades are ridiculously good. They'll usually kill at least 3 models for 20 munitions. Soviet mines were never that good and they got nerfed.

As for the B4 being OP, I've tried it a few times and never had much luck with it. It's better than the ML20 but roughly on par with the LEFH. I don't even keep it in my loadout now. Interestingly enough, the current B4 is almost the same as the old ML20. The ML20 used to shoot 4x 300 damage shells instead of 3x 400 damage shells. I wish the ML20 was the current B4 and that the B4 was restored to it's former high damage, with either an AOE buff or a reload buff.

There isn't a lot of units in COH2 that are good if you have just one. An AA halftrack would shut down infantry play if people could only get one AT gun.

As the devs buffed the B4 into the high heavens, the stumrtiger is getting left behind. not only the sturmtiger only gets to fire 1 shell, the firing animations is very slow and gives the opponent plenty of time to react.
i personally feel the sturmtiger is very underwhelming right now, deserves a little bit of love.

Yes, the Sturmtiger should also shoot 3 shells, with about a 1.5 second unload between them, and at range 40, 50, and 60. This would enable OKW players to not feel left out. Also, the 20 munitions smoke should be made free. Other units get free smoke so this leads to feelings of inadequacy and exclusion of OKW-mains. #freeOKW

Would you accept this if someone else said it? Cause this is literally just a long way of saying "trust me, I sort-of remember". The patchnotes missing things was not as common of an occurrence as you make it out to be either

The most significant change to it's anti-infantry performance I can remember was to it's moving scatter penalty, which is actually in the patchnotes:

M4A3 76mm ‘Easy-Eight
The Easy-Eight will still have lower moving scatter than most other tanks; previously the E8 had no scatter penalties for moving.

Moving scatter from 1 to 1.35

Don't remember them ever changing AOE. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, but you didn't make a good case

I'd forgot about the scatter penalty. That could've been the only nerf.

just used like 20 of these yesterday. the anti armor is good but this thing cant kill infantry that good. you could be shooting at a blob still missing. i had to many lvl 3 e8s and very few kills like sometimes 2 sometimes 6. but did good vs armor to get the vet. no inf kills. scatter sucks and aoe sucks

I think it used to have the same profile as the M4C. Being able to decrew it and abuse the pop cap, plus being able to take one additional hit was what got it nerfed the first time. I had a game where a teammate got 9 of them. When he hit that critical mass, he completely rolled over his side of the map then hit my side of the map. The other side got really salty.

I've tried it a few times in comp stomps. I don't think it's completely trash but it isn't a huge improvement over a standard Sherman.

Rather than give it any more stat increases, it would be interesting to add an ability:

If the MG upgrade is picked, let it switch between AP and HE. This would make it great against massed infantry.

If the commander upgrade is picked, give it either mark target or a 40 range time-on-target.