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I wouldn't necessary forgo using the Tiger. It's a rather effective unit if you can afford it.

Which is a big 'if'. Never skip a P4 and StuGs to get a Tiger. If your P4 and StuG(s) are still alive by the time you can afford a Tiger, it can swing fortunes in your favor.

Tigers, like all heavies due to their poor mobility and vulnerability when unsupported, are most effective in a defensive and counterattacking role.

Panthers are extremely cost-ineffective. They are useful for closing out 4v4 matches where fuel has been uncontested, but it struggles in almost every other situation. Furthermore, it appears they may end up being changed into weaker Tigers without any AI on their main gun. My only recommendation for using panthers is when you're fighting a Soviet player spamming T34/76s. (But not if they have Marked Target.)

Command Panzer 4 is a very useful unit because it makes infantry and most importantly team weapons like paks alive longer. The command tank does not benefit from its own aura, so it will likely be the first target. Try and use that to your advantage and expect to kite your enemy with it.

Why people keep writing bibles about balance changes without having played the mod?

Why even release anything to the public?

And here I miss the 90s when half life was new... and Q3A...

Lagos is the most correct in this matter as he has visual aids.

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Perhaps I'm being argumentative, but one could analyze how an allied sniper can reduce an enemy squads damage output by 20 to 25% versus 16.7 to 20%, due to squad sizes without taking into account slot_items. Still, squad sizes are a very real factor. Decrewing a 6 man zis vs 4 man paks is a whole different ballgame

I wonder if giving the soviet sniper a PTRS and more or less cloning the brit sniper would've been too crazy. That's a change I have never tested.