Most of you here don´t get whats the main purpose of tiger ace.
Tiger ace is not last saving grace tank, if you screwed, tiger ace won´t save you.
Tiger ace is finishing tank. You can use saved fuel for panzer mid game and have cca 2-3 panzers when you can call in tiger ace.
You don´t need pios for tiger ace or anything else. You just call it and use it as suicide tank along with your panzers and infantry. Tiger ace and 2 panzers will kill enemy tanks and infantry alike while you push and get most of map. Afterwards tiger ace die, so you won´t be cripelled and can continue normally with most of map big fuel income and no enemy tank destroyers/heavies that can gain ground.
i agree with hector on it, NO ONE can say tiger ace is a bad thing.
800 mp for a tiger vet 3 that you can simply throw and kill eveyrthing is very powerfull.
So yeah, during 2 or 3 min your fuel and muni incomes will be decreased but it's worth it.
- Stun grenades -> Very good
- G43 -> Good ( gren will still get wiped by double bar riflemen ).
- Smoke -> Very good
- Stormtrooper -> ....... Not that good that you think aerafield.
Cloack is awesome but you can get it on regular pgren, gren and even mg42.
Make some maths :
Stormtrooper -> 100 muni to get cloack and stg 44.
PGREN -> Already have STG44, 45 muni to get cloack.
Which is the most cost effecient ?
and cloack is good when you are quite good at micro and mostly defending because it's duration is not as long as on ost sniper.
you can't just moove from a bush to another and stay hidden.
But still, aerafield made a good point on that commander and i'm also surprised to don t see it much more in 1 vs 1, especially against maxim spammer and Brits.