The turret living-dead

[Copper]

OK.

Depending on the quality of the crew and the approximation of the opponents, losing your Tank Commander can cause significant degration of the ability of the tank.

When buttoned, or commander less (same thing), you tank will not be able to spot as well as having a commander.

Now CM has an anomaly in that if your tank is part of a platoon and other commanders are still alive and can see an enemy, all other forces can automatically see it too. The term is called Borg Spotting. A single tank may be disrupted and even on occasion if you have a sharpshooter, all tanks may be affected.

CM is good but its not perfect. But in general, I have found that as long as you keep them together in a doctrinally sound way, losing your commander degrades, but does not seriously affect, your tanks performance.

Easy in theory, less easy in practice1