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And for god's sake, remove the pinging effect that happens even for the most minor things!

Let players disable some/all minimap effects. This would make me very happy.

Alright then, let me enrich this wonderful thread with hard numbers
(if the site is up to date by now for the concerned units):

Tanks		Panther	Comet
MP		490 	500
fuel		175 	185	
popcap		18 	18

HP		800	800
front armor	320 	290 
rear armor	110 	110
target size	24 	22

Vmax		6.6 	6.9 
acceleration	2.4 	2.2 
decelearation	4.5 	4.0 
rotation rate	30 	32 

sight radius	35 	35

Guns			Panther	Comet
range 			50	45
damage			160 	160	
penetration		240 	190

reload			6.53	6.28
cooldown far/near	1.13	0.13

accuracy near		0.06	0.06
accuracy far		0.03	0.03
moving accur. modifier	0.50	0.50

scatter max distance 	8.00	6.4

area distance far	0.25	1.50
area distance near	0.15	0.25

area dmg multipl. far	0.05	0.20
area dmg multipl. near 	1.00	1.00

Some easy findings if we talk about a vacuum duel type of comparison
(which is bs imo, but let's have some fun):

The likelihood of a Panther to penetrate a Comet is 240/290, which is about 82.76%
The likelihood of a Comet to penetrate a Panther is 190/320, which is about 59.38%

The Panther has a target size of 24 instead of the Comets 22, but I don't know how that stat is being accounted for when calculating hit/miss, so someone else interpret the surely meaningful significance of this.

Both tanks have equal accuracy on the move and while standing, but the Panther maximum scatters 25% further away when missing.

While the Panther has 11.11% more range, the Comet shoots 19.5% faster.

The Comet shells have 600% of the AOE of the Panther and 400% of damage done minimum if a unit is in the affected AOE with their respective weapons.

So this is easy to get wrong and I'm not quite sure if I understood the numbers correctly:

The Panther has a 0.25 AOE radius compared to 1.5 from the Comet?
And at the furthest edges of the area being affected, the Comet still does 0.2 of it's weapon's damage (160*0.2=32, a normal infantry model has ~80 HP).

I mean when you play the game, you know that the Comet is actually good at fighting infantry with it's main gun, but seeing these numbers interpreted like that for the first time makes me really think and I hope I am not misinterpreting anything here.

There are some things left out in this: Veterancy abilities/bonuses and other weapons on the tank, such as hull guns and pintle mount, which helps even it up anti infantry wise for the Panther.

just my 20.000 cents

Source:
http://www.stat.coh2.hu
Panther Tank
Comet Tank
Panther Gun
Comet Gun

Edit:

Tobis

Thanks for telling me how to do it. I used to map for CoH1, so I know my way with .sga files if that is needed here. I made the post with mid range calculations now, so I hope it doesn't skew things up.

Edit2:
Since I forgot to add a personal conclusion, I will say that I can't really see a clear winner. Both have their respective pros and cons and in a straight duel I'd say the Panther has a clear edge. But in the absence of each other/different tank, the Comet has a lot more value imo. Both are in a restrictive tier and there is no obvious winner here , so I guess we can say that both are actually in a Good Spot™

Not that this helps grenadiers, but I feel like I'm having a hard time repairing and recrewing team weapons beyond mid game, so maybe unlock 5th pio squad member when all tiers are built? Just another small and completely unrelated thing: Have repair stations purchasable by brits, sov and ost in t4 when all tech structures have been built (like mechanized engineers from okw).

CoH1 has suffered for several years from issues such as bugs, hacking and imbalance. Nothing has been done about the game-play since patch 2.602, and the move to steam with patch 2.7 has created additional problems.

The most well known problems being:


Staghound top gunner reload bug (It doesn't stop to reload).

M10 Misfire bug.

Map-hacking (The most important issue that needs to be addressed).

Player levels not appearing on loading screens, and players not being able to reach levels 20 through to 17 on the leader-boards like in previous iterations.

When you retreat your units to the Captain, your units sprint as if they are retreating, even after having already retreated. It's an exploit that leads to an unfair advantage, especially when a recon section can sprint towards a sniper and kill him with ease. This is not how the ability is intended to be used, it's broken and needs to be addressed.

Sniper spam is a major issue in Company of Heroes, 12ocky has addressed this by adding a negative zeal to grouped snipers. More than two snipers on the field will recieve a negative zeal, similar to pioneers in 2.602.

12ocky has addressed most of these issues, other than the map-hack and rankings. 12ocky is willing to work with Relic Entertainment to implement these fixes. We want Relic Entertainment to get in touch with him if needed, and finally make these issues fixed default for online games.

It is a shame that this product, which is available for purchase today, isn't being looked after to the standard that you expect from the developer.

Anectodal and therefore irrelevant.