Dealing damage is better then collecting kills.
True. Panther should be played as a rammer, not as a brawler.
In all seriousness, high tier german mediums are all heavy, much heavier then their medium counterparts of other nations and even some actual heavy tanks.
Personal record in my Hall of Frustration: game with T28 Prototype, in which I collected 5 kills and did 5583 points of damage, almost five times my hitpoints, and our team managed to lose the game.
After experiences in proto, I'm now determined to avoid T28 and go for T30 instead. Perhaps I give T28 a chance when my driver has 100% clutch braking and at least some number of off road driving.