I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here? Edit: I believe I'm properly reading the sarcasm now lol
The soviet one is better exclusively because it's more flexible. The command panther offers flexibility in other ways IMO. If it gets moved into tech I think options for improving it are much greater
Basicly the way I see it is that it's more effective because it costs more (cost of the CP as a requirement)
The panther certainly offers SOMETHING but flexibility isn't what I would call it.
The tech skipping is absolutely bullshit and should be tied to schwere or hell, even all 3 trucks like the KT it locks out, but in the end no CP=no mark target.
Just to be clear, I think all the versions of Mark target should do the same thing at the same value, but I can see the reasoning behind the CP having a better version. But 50% bonus damage is bad, in team games where there can still be a KT or elefant or JT or something being able to 450 damage in a single shot (and have the panther shoot as well) you could nearly alpha strike some tanks. I much prefer the usf version that improves the odds of doing damage over decreasing the units EFHP but still possibly doing nothing. That goes for the Soviet version as well.