Err... you might want to google for a little aircraft called "IL-2", she was king of tank busting in WWII, not the Stuka, which was actually very poor at that role.
And before you mention the big cannon Stuka, there was a big cannon IL-2 aswell, and it was still faster, better armoured, held more ammo, and could still carry rockets and bombs, and it predated the Stuka G.
And ofcourse the Yak-9T.
Ivan and the black death was king of air to ground tank busting, not the Gerries.
And tank busting with bombs is more effective than you seem to imply, you put 200 Kg of high explosives anywhere near a tank, and thats a mobillity kill at the very least.
I know of the IL-2 strumovik, and they too came in low and slow to shoot out some enemy tanks so we WOULD have to see them for air support to be a viable idea... And not to start yet another branch arguement in this thread, but the stuka was, you're right, not a tank buster but a tactical strike craft and it excelled at that job...
But, that DIDN'T stop the stuka from repeatedly, successfully, taking out enemy tanks. The Stuka while not as heavily armoured as the IL-2, was around the same speed. And it's pilots enjoyed better training, an accurate bombsight, and a reputation that struck fear into any ground forces that heard it's wailing siren... The stuka was a WWII success story, and heavily influenced the design ot the American A-10 Warthog.
With the IL-2, you saw it coming... low, slow, and had time to react. But with the stuka it would unexpectedly fall from the sky, siren blaring. You can imagine how it got it's reputation. And although not in a bomber variant, it's not hard to imagine how the biggest ace of WWII history got to where he was flying a stuka. "Whistling Death"
And the Germans had plenty of their own IL-2 type aircraft. Bf-110 tactical variants, Ju-88 tactical variants, Hs-129 tank busters, the Hs-123 tactical biplanes, and of course the Fw-190 tactical assault aircraft...
Any way you slice it the Tiger would have to hae a counter, whatever it might be. The easiest counter to add would be to simply make it, like you said in the other Tiger thread, that the T-34s spawn far more quickly and more often then the Tiger or King Tiger. Any of these rare tanks should only spawn a couple of times over the entire round.
Looking at certain engagements the Royal Tiger was involved in, it's respawn time should directly effect the amount of KT's at that actual battle.
Artillery just falls randomly in a general area, but airstrikes would somewhat follow the target(wouldn't be spot on every time). It would be much better at taking out enemy tanks.
Ya, one would sure as hell think so... But having laser guided rockets fall on you from nowhere would kill this game.