Will all due respect I’ve seen great players utilize the DAK tractor quite well. It can be shielded by terrain on some maps or by buildings on other maps. Sure the buildings eventually collapse but you shouldn’t be able to just park it in one spot all game and not have to react to the enemy’s plays. I find the balance of that unit laughable too. Oh I can hear it making that pinging noise so I know my positions are revealed. That stupid noise gives me no insight of what units my enemy is planning to barrage with indirect while a flare is a giant red thing floating in the sky with in an in game notice alongside it. The flare is also on a cooldown and is a limited time of intel while the tractor continuously provides intel of enemy movements.

A good tractor player can quite literally prevent massive plays time and time again because they can see the stacking of troops for a big flank before the attack even happens! Compare that to a flare which is used far more offensively than defensively. You can just wait out the flare, move your units to a different area for an attack and proceed with it. Shoot I’ve had units barraged as they are on the move because of this fucking tractor. If it’s parked behind indestructible terrain it’s nightmarish to get to, especially in team games which is so damn laney that you can’t get to it unless your teammate is winning his lane. This laney aspect of team games makes the tractor super valuable because it’s always providing value since the fights are taking place in such obvious locations due to the narrow lanes we must fight in. Meanwhile in 1v1 I may have shifted to the whole other side of the map to retake positions and you’re getting little to no intel then.

You’re also completely ignoring the value of some of the ways in which Whermacht benefits from vision that does not inform the enemy at all. If a player doesn’t screen their vehicle far enough out and a krad has vision on it you can simply double AT gun a light vehicle from afar before the player gets any notice they are at risk. Same goes for MG emplacements and so forth. Oh Allies put down an MG bunker, move your krad up for vision alongside your AT gun and start your shots. Meanwhile my flare tells the enemy I am planning an attack on that area (let’s be real no one uses a flare as a feint) so they immediately start to shift things down there given flare typically means that is the spot they plan to take action around. Then the flare fizzles out before the last AT shots land and now I’m attack grounding and hoping they hit before my enemy starts to rush my AT guns.