Profile of James Hale

I'm not gonna lie, I'd pay for a commander with the Maus in.

The Tiger Ace (with its current stats) is much more OP than a King Tiger would be, but tbh none of the stuff in the leaked screenshots appears to be particularly OP IMO. I mean, there's likely stuff in there that we've not seen yet, and so only the betas will be privy to, but I really can't imagine any future commanders could rival Elite Troops and pre-nerf Industry for absurdity.

I am crossing my fingers that the Maus will make an appearance in 1945 ToW, but I know the reasons against adding it vastly outnumber those for adding it. But come on, the 1945 pack needs to be absolutely epic (even if the outcome was never in doubt) and so the Maus would be a pretty awesome challenge.

Come on, just imagine it as a solo challenge; you're given a finite number of units at the start (like on Blitzkrieg) and have to make do with what you've got or can capture. You're the first units to reach the Maus prototype factory and so the aim is to either capture or destroy it. It's pretty well entrenched, but clearly the mission has to be possible. You could have it so that it starts off with very little health and a destroyed engine, but is being repaired by a single Pioneer squad, and so the longer you take to get to it, the harder the mission will be because eventually it'll be able to fire, and then finally move.

There is no fucking way I wouldn't pay for a ToW pack with that in.

I'm pretty confident we'll see a sizable Tiger Ace nerf in the coming weeks. It's just too controversial and unbalanced a unit; the sheer number of threads complaining about it across the main forum and this one should be affirmation of that.

A vanilla Tiger with the shiny skin and normal vet 3 status/stats would be fine. Add to that a sensible cooldown for the Troop Training ability and Elite Troops would be a fairly well-balanced commander.

I don't see the other commanders as being P2W (even future ones, judging by the leaked screenshots) and Industry isn't too bad now that it only affects vehicle times. You still need the fuel to call them in, and it does give you a MP handicap.

Assault Grens are fine as they serve a purpose, are not OP and do not scale well late game. Really they should be knocked back down to 280 MP, though.

Pretty much agree with Aero here; First Aid is definitely very useful, but can be expensive if used too often. I definitely wouldn't get rid of it, though, and I've used it a hell of a lot more than I've ever planted Trip Wire Flares.

I'm not sure about Counter Barrage as I am not 100% how it works. Does it still only apply within the unit's original ability radius? I remember a lot of people saying the ability should be improved, and to do that it should fire within a +50% radius. If that's not already the case now, then I think it should be. That would make it much more useful.

Target Weak Point is indeed bugged: 1) it doesn't work the way it used to (it targets where the unit was when you selected it, and not where it will be when you fire, i.e. it doesn't track); 2) StuGs, Elefants and Sturmpanzer IVs can still use it when their gun is damaged/destroyed.

How about you bar democracy and fill in world wide influence and power?

That happened the moment they banned Nullist.