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And nothing that statistically make the Ez8 a great tank let him compete with the panther making it as poorly efficient as the T34-85 on the AT department on anything above the Pz4. I really don't know what so complicated to understand here.
The T34-85 is a great tank because while naturally outclassing Pz4s it has great anti infantry impact and good survivability.

There are 3 ways to make the Ez8 useful. Or a T34-85 clone but the segment is already filled with the sherman dozer or a panther clone with obviously the cost increased accordingly. Third way would be to make the doctrine so good people would pick it regularly and build the Ez8 because its in it.

Your issue then seems to be that you want much more out of the E8 than it's supposed to give. There are an extremely limited number of tanks that can go toe to toe with the Panther. That is by design.
The E8 is not and will not ever be one of those tanks in part because you can hop out and heal the fucking thing anywhere even if you don't have a lick of infantry. This is significant and the drawback for this is that usf tanks are not meant to be panthers. The E8s job is to make the enemy NEED panthers. You can bitch and moan about it not beating a Panther and not having the AI to be a t34/85 but here's the thing: the Panther doesn't either, but yours comes out sooner to do what it can in the meantime and they CAN'T build p4s to make up the difference because they will get clubbed like nobody's business.

ALSO there are options beyond the limited ones you propose, ones that arnt shit. The E8 doesn't need changes, the doctrine does. It doesn't need to be made OP so everyone picks it and builds E8s (seriously sit for a second and think of how beyond trash of a suggestion this is. It's a codguy level suggestion) we've already addressed the shit tier idea of making it into a Panther further up (another ill conceived, unthought out suggestion that shows a clear disregard for actually trying to achieve balance)

Seriously awful suggestions that show a clear misunderstanding of the faction, the unit, unit roles, interaction between factions and general common sense of even the lowest fathomable sort.

The issue with the E8 is that it's an AT tank in a faction with the very best TD going. There's no need for it as the Jackson can do the task without the risk of damage. There will never be a spot for any of the alt AT option for USF as long as they pale to the Jackson.

Statistically the e8 is fantastic. It's got great armour and fantastic pen. It's got mobility, it has utility it has the usf crew! In any other faction it would be the only medium you see, but no other faction has a fast moving, fast turreted, high pen, 60 range, self healing TD that can pump up its damage and pen with the click of a button either....

That doesn't make any sense considering the Luchs arrives WAY earlier than the T70.

And everything else in t3 comes too late to be good.
The T70 being nerfed paves the way for the T70 not being the heartbeat of the faction that decides if you make it to late game or not.
Its currently a self fulfilling prophecy where the T70 comes late because it's good and it's good because it comes late.
The rest of t3 would benifit greatly from coming sooner, and the faction as a whole would benifit from the T70 not being the make or break point.

You mean like calling a stock reckon plane and obliterating a Lefh with TOT?

Yes. That IS different than all enemy's indirect fire basically destroying itself.

Lefh is no way safer choice than Priest, Sexton, Calliope actually both SPG commanders can kill with off map or with barrage once it location is known.

There's a difference between needing to combine multiple abilities and one doing it all. That's the issue. Set and forget is bad