Patton Discussion

I wish I could PAT(t)ON his back and say "Better luck next time buddy."

Patton is not good, his 3 skills is not important. He is the weakest tank general in gold tier, even still weaker than silver tier general (Vatutin, Timoshenko, and Sun LR)

Quality: 4/5 (pretty good, but not outstanding)
Cost effectiveness: 1/3 (pretty expensive for his performance)

Actually, this guy is also underrated. He, of course, is not the best tank general ever. But he deserves the 5th place, only a few inches bellow Rokossovsky (3rd place being Graziani). He is, however, better than Montgomery (especially in the end games). Let's take a better look at his stats and skills.

Patton has 6 panzer star, 3/5 mobility, 3/4 air force, and so on. His panzer star, unlike Montgomery, is maxed at 6 (which should have taken 800 medals to upgrade from 5). His mobility is good, and has potential to be as good as Guderian's. His air force is pretty good too like Guderian (although inferior to Montgomery's).

His skills, none of them are extremely useful, but okay. Camouflage is not very useful as tanks already have air defense and high regular defense, at least better and cheaper than Monty's PLASTIC defense. Tide of iron is not very reliable, only triggers when health is < 50%. But it can be used in all terrains and cities. It nicely reduces the attack penalty when health is lower than half. Entrechment is pretty useful to dodge artillery attacks especially in the modern war when you can take > 200 damage from artilleries (200 × 30% = 60).

Unlike Montgomery who is too aggressive but very vulnerable, Patton can fight anywhere making him more flexible and survivable as he can fight in the mountains and jungles to take cover from enemy tank and artillery units. In the mountains you take 20% less damage from tank and 10% less from artillery. In the jungle, it's the opposite. 20% is very large, it's about twice as cover lv5 (cover lv5= 12%×90%=10.8%). Always remember, move from cover to cover (mountains and jungles). Monty's plain fighting makes him unsuitable in other terrains and cities (which would make his air force rarely useful) and he is tend to be used on plains only (without coverage). Patton can also be used to defend a city and to give air supports. He is pretty tough when defending against air strikes and artillery attacks.

In terms of damage output, Patton in inferior to Monty, but on survivability, flexibility, cost effectiveness, and overall performance, Patton is better (especially in the modern war). You wouldn't expose your generals in plains (without cover) and clash them with enemy generals in the modern war, that would be stupid. Therefore I recommend Patton as your 5th panzer general.

Compared with Rokossovsky, his camouflage is equal to Rokossovsky's shelter. His tide of iron is just like Rokossovsky. Rokossovsky's panz leader is entrechment in Patton. Plus, 4 potential air force and 5 potential mobility. Only a few inches bellow Rokossovsky.

For his 2 skill slots, I highly recommend rumor and armored assault.

Note: buy him only when you need a 5th tank gen, otherwise he won't help that much.

many will not agree, including me. 

But yes, just for defensive abilities he is the best, balancing both counter-offense and damage avoidance

Sometimes Defence is not best thing to do in this Game but Offensive to Elimate the threat that start to flooding on you. What‘s good if that defensive general have lower potential damage against attacker and inflexible to the situation.

I agree with jibon.