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Hmm really? They seem far less effective in my head now. If I'm not mistaken the fusiliers have the crit as well.

I am quite certain that they don´t have it either.

You could try it with cheatmod. You can change the zoom level, and set up scenes by spawning in units and abilities. But you still have to be your own camera man. Other than that I am not aware of any other possibility, but I don't have much experience in this field.

The simple and sad answer is, don't ever build it. In 1vs1 its not worth it. 2 Stugs do a way better job at At. So its always better to stay at t3 and later call in a Tiger. But if you like the Panther, like I do its shittiness won't prevent you from building it. If you use it, play to its strength, that is survivability and armor. Use it as a defensive tank, almost like a mobile pak. As you noticed while moving the accuracy is mediocre. So hit stop as soon as you see an enemy tank. And while you do this, hope for a patch so that the panther comes back to old glory
Edit: Damm should learn to type faster.

If you replay is direct to me my point is that the Ostheer officer should be easier to vet.

That can be achieved either from shared vetrancy or/from weapon upgrade (or a faust).

Other than I agree this units should add via utility and not via direct combat.

The barrage is rather lucking especially compared to the stock Major barrage that does not require an arty unit to be present.

Maybe the unit to could be improve its utility by having an aura that affect only arty units like mortars, weffers and Lefh maybe shortening barrage or increasing barrage range accuracy. The officer then could share experience with these units.

I was referring to stefenbk1´s post about his usage of the artillery officer. But you have some good points.

What I would like to see are some good abilities. The idea of an aura only for indirect fire units sounds good, but rather boring. I would suggest a supervise ability (like us captain) only for mortars panzerwerfers and leigs, with various buffs to reload speed, accuracy and barrage cooldown. Additionally the officer should get an actual arty (like the major).
My idea behind this is, to have two playstyles, one more focussed on stationary arty support suited the lefh commander and the other one focussed around mobile support with combat bonuses, so you can skip t1 with Osttruppen commander and still have a form of artillery. Then get rid of the vet 1 medkit and the coordinated barrage ability and replace them with a new one. My idea would be a sort of kubel recon mode, where it detects artillery units in the fog of war within a radius. It would have a small munition cost and last about 30 secs. This ability would suit the theme of artillery commander and it would be useful in counter barraging or hunting down katyushas in the late game. The abilities should also scale with veterancy so giving him shared veterancy isn´t a bad idea.
This are my suggestions for a complete overhaul of the officer and in my opinion, it would make him a lot better. So what do you think?

bit useless but still... Lets say you have 2-3 wher mortars. If you use the 80 muni abillty the mortars firing range will be 160 (victor target mode) rather then the normal 80. basically you can out range the british pit and the 120mm.


http://stat.coh2.hu/weapon.php?filename=grw34_81mm_victor_target_mortar_mp (160 range)

Ok but you need to move the officer close to the target, and the mortarpit can just brace and the 120mm runs away. And if you have 2-3 mortars you should be able to counter one mortar pit or a 120mm by barraging it from different locations, thus saving muni. But in general you can´t even build 2-3 mortar or every good opponent will destroy you, at least in 1vs1.