Old JT was shit, that's why it wasn't used. But instead of making it viable they just turned it into an Ele clone. Extremely boring IMO. Yes it has slightly more survivability but the difference is insignificant in most situations. What other major differences are there? Easiest solution would have been to keep the JT as it was but improve aim time and the potency of the barrage. That way it would have remained unique while also being used.
It was always going to be bullshit unit as long as it had more range then longest range immobile anti tank gun.
I used the barrage against AT-gun walls and MGs...How would you even attempt to use it against mobile infantry? It's completely impossible.
What makes you think that any long range barrage would be effective against any mobile unit?
I am sure that the 0.5 accuracy penalty applies on many JT shots because as I said and is obvious from stats the gun traverse is so much worse than on the Ele. That makes it rotate more. That is the only explanation that I can think off regarding why it misses so many more shots than the Elefant despite having better accuracy stats.
It can't shoot when it moves, therefore 0.5 moving accuracy never applies.
Breakthrough is bad compared to both Ele doctrines. That's what I mean when I said JT is a Ele clone stuck in a bad doctrine. I should have used "worse" instead, I admit that.
You're going to ignore the fact that okw stock rooster is arguably better then ost one?
The one thing that Ele doctrine has that breakthrough doesn't is counter to Eles counter, arty erasing combo.