Profile of FriedRise

Your only chance is the M36 Jackson really, and you need multiple of them. Use their range and always try to get rear shots as that'll give you the best chance of penetration. In long team games where the sides are even and German heavy armor is imminent, hordes of Jacksons is my go-to plan and usually I can score 30k - 40k vehicle damage from them alone.

Engaging the KT from the front, you only have 47% chance of penetration (and that is from close range). From rear though, you have an 88% chance of penetration. Using the armor piercing ability gives you a better chance, but I'm not sure exactly how much extra.

The Jackson has 60 range (same as the SU-85) compared to King Tiger's 40. You can also reasonably kite it since the KT is very slow - the Jackson has almost double the speed of KT. Both tanks do 240 damage. Jacksons need 6 penetrating shots to take down a KT whereas the King Tiger can take down a Jackson in 2 shots. I wouldn't rush a King Tiger since that's almost always a losing proposition unless it only has a sliver of health left or something. It's better to play it safe and build up veterancies on your own TDs.

I've found this to work very well with the Airborne commander since you can augment your assault with the P-47 Thunderbolt Rocket Strike and use Pathfinders (in hold fire) to spot for you so you can engage the KT at max range. Also remember that your Major has the recon plane ability if you need to scout for it. Sometimes it's worth trading 1-2 of your own tanks for the KT since in a lot of cases, this is OKW's end, end game.

Not sure how much length of game really affects the drop rate. Last night I played 3 games all as US:

1) 30-minute 2v2 game - 2 war spoils: the US Mechanized Company commander (yay!) and Soviet Conscript Support Tactics (already own)
2) 50+ minute 2v2 game - no drops
3) 1h 3v3 game - no drops

Might be because I just got the drop in that first game that it has a lower chance of dropping in consecutive ones. So far, my commander drop count from war spoils is 5: 2 new US ones and 3 Soviet ones I already have.

lol, so vet 5 puppchens do 640 damage??

Man, I thought we can finally have some good games with the removal of monster trucks crushing everything. Now we have to deal with this??

But the OKW blitz only lasts about 5 seconds whereas Ostheer blitz lasts a long time.

I get that Blitz and Overdrive was becoming useless with only acceleration bonuses, but +50% max-speed seems a bit much.

So doing nothing and then surrendering to AI after 5m of playing would count towards drawing one?