Yeah, I know the existance of that new damage reduction since a few patches ago.
But first of all, you have to reach vet3 with grens. You have to survive the LV stage, specially T70.
This is another example of retarted parabolic buff by Relic, when all that is needed is add a 5th men from stock, or maybe an upgrade like Cons or Sections.
You wanna give cons a stock ai upgrade? Svt's every game sweat.
Normal nades? sweat as well.
An mg that aint shit at vet 0? Sweat.
T34 armour buffed, main gun buffed to be on par while remaing cheaper? Sweat
Its only gonna mess up more then it fixes giving ost stock 5th man. Soviets have ai upgrades and nades doctrinal for a reason. Their squads are to big for it to be stock.
Squishy units should have better damage output, wich grens and pgrens do have imo. Grens need the recc acc at vet3 back and the lmg need a long range dps buff at bp3 imo. Grens are defensive inf. The damage vs supressed units is also a good idea for a buff.
If you want to brute force you way through use pgrens 222 flamtrack mortar etc.
Wanna use mainlines to brute force your way through play usf soviets.