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Use vehicles or Stormtroopers to decap points really quickly (either by deploying them behind lines through houses or blitzing to the cutoff, then slam 'Crush the pocket'.

That seems quite powerful, but it probably costs 1 Billion munitions or something.

Huh, I thought commander rotation was a permanent thing to whet appetites so people would buy them.

I wonder if this means we'll finally get the update to war spoils we've been waiting on.

Special Ops is my favourite Doctrine with OKW and I'm still trying to figure out how to best maximise this for 1v1.

Usually the Command Panther is the third vehicle I get in a match after the Kubelwagon and the Panzer II Luchs.

The main reason I went for this tank first is that for the slightly increased cost, it seems to be superior to getting a regular Panther first. However, watching the Propagandacast recently, Imperial Dane mentions that it doesn't really have better stats than a regular panther and most of it's advantages are nullified by being the only armour on the field. The Luchs can benefit a bit, but it doesn't really gel as much as another Panther or Jagdpanzer IV would I suppose.

So my question is, is it better to get something else first, like a Jagdpanzer or vanilla Panther before getting the command panther?
The main reasons I can think to get a command Panther first would be it's co-ordinated fire, which can be used in conjunction with Panzershreks and Raketenwerfers as well, and it's Blitz ability which is always handy in a pinch too. Does this make it worth getting as the first medium/heavy armour?

1v1 is a completely separate beast from the rest of the game. If you're not having fun playing ring-around-the-rosie with cap points and dealing with stupid cheese strats that only work in 1v1, you can always join the 95% of the playerbase by playing 2v2 and larger

But 2v2 and larger players are always complaining about equally bad things, imbalance and "Super Heavy Tanks: The Game"

Personally I find the game fun for what it is. I'm not a great player (look at my player card and laugh if you want) but I play it how I want for fun, and tend to find my niche amongst other players. If I wanted to get good and play this game more seriously then, yeah I would be annoyed since there is currently a handful of viable strategies that dominate everything. I guess it depends on what you want to get from this game.

I hope that a patch does fix this up, because I feel it's got potential to be a really fun and competitive game, they just need to open up more options I think.

As others have said, this is a common thing in a lot of games and genres. I used to play King of Fighters XIII a fair bit and enter tournaments on a regular basis, and the game has reached a stage where it's devolved into certain characters and gameplay styles dominating all the tournaments. I've since stopped playing the game competitively since I don't have as much fun with it as I used to. Virtua Fighter on the other hand, I still find to be a pleasure to play even at higher levels. I want CoH2 to become more like that, where there are lots of viable options at high level play.

Big patches are always fun, it's almost like new content. Interested to see what comes from the next update.