(INITIAL DISCLAIMER: This isn't so much a suggestion as a thought I've had. I am not an expert and have no idea about the further-reaching balance consequences of these two small ideas; which is why I'm making the thread to see what people with more knowledge of the nitty-gritty of stats and balance can tell. I haven't put this in 'balance' because it's more an alteration than a tweak, but if it seems better that it should be moved there, by all means that should be done.)
So far as I can gather, one of the complaints from EF about the British faction is their static nature, despite this being what Relic designed them to do. And it's true that this doesn't match up with the other factions, either in vanilla or in EF - though I haven't seen the Ostheer yet, of course.
In this case, though, the faction is saddled with a couple of units with very limited use: the Cromwell Command Tank (which carries veterancy, nothing else - and unlike the foot officers, cannot even pick up a weapon to be useful with), and the Staghound, which has no command radius and replaces the Cromwell Command Tank.
Given this, it isn't much surprise that people are discouraged from playing offensively, when a significant resource and population investment has to go into a vulnerable, defenceless vehicle.
Consequently, why not give the CCT the main gun, identical to that of the regular Cromwell? The 'command tank' examples shown in the game with a wooden dummy gun to make more space for radio equipment were used at a much higher level than the company level of command the game depicts, and so would never have appeared on the front-line of a battlefield. This way, at least, it would not be a complete waste purchased solely for veterancy/unlocking, and would have some means to defend itself.
It has also always seemed an odd design decision to replace the CCT with the Staghound, as it is roughly comparable to the Stuart light tank. A far less developed thought is that the Staghound, given what it replaces, could gain the command radius of a CCT; trading an increase in speed and usefulness for the lesser survivability of an armoured car.
So: any opinions, or experts coming to proclaim how stupid this idea is?
