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Timing... these units are hard to compare since they don't meet the same requirements. Technically Brummbar and Centaur have more similar requirements.

Axis iderect fire supperiority, that's a new one.

It depends which matchup we are talking about. USF and UKF really don't shine in the indirect fire department, unless you take the same 1-2 commanders always. Soviets on the other side have a very useful nondoctrinal mortar, strong nondoctrinal rocket artillery and a bunch of commanders with come with one of two doctrinal howitzers or the doctrinal 120mm mortar.

USF/UKF nondoctrinal -> definitely axis nondoctrinal indirect fire superiority
with commander choices this may look different

you can have it if we get the SU85 instead

First of all: Who is we? Playing axis only?

Secondly: A swap would make no sense since both TDs matching the targets they will face mostly. SU-85 has to fight high armor targets pretty early on, a normal PZIV has 180 armor already, not speaking aboout PZIV J or Panther/Brummbar. SU-85 has less RoF than JP4 but higher penetration.
The JP4 faces a lot of lower armoured allied medium tanks and TDs where it needs less penetration. It trades peentration vs RoF to deal more dps.

So both TDs fill there niche, both would make less sense if you would swap them.

So you think a bunch of completely randomized matches with all sorts of skill levels, the majority of which are far below what should be used as components to evaluate balance is a better way of determining balance issues, than a tournament of high skilled players effectively playing in controlled settings of multiple matches on the same map over and over and each team switching factions every match...?

Interesting logic.

Coming for two USF threads about PFs and Scotts and ranting at both looks a little bit akward if you ask me. Don't you like USF?

I personally would go for coh2 stats, set custom range from mid june to today and choose displaying Top200 games only. That data ia a far bigger and more reliable source than one tournament. Atm it is 55,1% winrate for Ostheer an d 59,5% for OKW at 4vs4.

Don't want to question that allied side performs a lot better at 1vs1 and 2vs2 though.

I always wondered why a lot of the allied buffs affect the early to mid game. They shouldn't buff units that play a big role in 1vs1 and 2vs2 where allies always had a good game performance. Buff real late game units. Example: Buff UKF hammer/anvil tanks (and raise population+cost accordingly and/or cap them) instead of buffing T0-T3 units.
Early game units have to be buffed in a different way: A good example for a game buff for an early game units that kicks in later is the 7th man upgrade for conscripts which gets unlocked at T4 automatically or at T3 with additional tech costs. It has a bigger impact in multiplayer games than in 1vs1.

Scott could be balanced easily. Just remove autofire, reduce to 320 hp and balance it completely about a decent long range barrage with an appropiate ability cooldown. Or do it the other way round. Keep health and low range autofire (+attack ground), remove barrage and adjust around decent autofire with appropiate reload. Either way it could be balanced way better.

PFs are fine however.

I do find it very challenging to play versus spios + kubels to bleed USF from the start while having good map control with OKW. It is especially effective vs USF PF build but strong vs Rifle build too. Playing this tactic with OKW myself and waiting for a player who shows up to counter it without endless bleeding until USF gets sufficient AT.

I thought about giving a doctrinal answer at least. While Assgrens have sprint right from the start (Oorah too, but Cons are less powerful at short range) Fire Up comes with Cpt/Lt build. Maybe granting Fire up from the start too would give USF some doctrinal counterplay to Kubel kiting and would make spios+Kubels less of a no-brainer build. E8 commander could use a small buff after all since the E8 rework didn't worked out that great (Imo the reason is that its AI damage is still too low to replace M4A3/Jackson combo).