And it magically makes penals not economical burden on menpower in late game how again?
Soviet had high win rates by spamming Penals for many years, now other openings are meta. That is simply a rsult of power creep.
The unit you personally and without any evidence other then "I said so, so its true!" claim is "dominating" anything is simply false.
Pls stop projecting your own flaws to other.
Penals strength in early game can be worked around with and they scale extremely badly into the late game due to lack of AI weapon upgrade and lowest in the game rec acc vet, so what JibberJabberJobber said about them stands true.
Penal get some of the best DPS bonus in game and start we one of the best weapon in their time frame so they do not need an AI weapon upgrade for DPS the claim is as silly as saying Panzer grenadier "scale extremely badly into the late game due to lack of AI weapon upgrade"
Penal get both get target size reduction via vet and via 1 ability and since they are 6 model their total EHP is not that bad.
But I am all for them starting with inferior weapons and having to upgrade their weapon
Sorry, units do not magically appear and disappear in the game to lean on their strengths and not suffer from their weaknesses, you have to look at the unit performance through the prism of whole game duration and penals could do with restoring their old reinforcement cost either from get go or as T4 thing as they no longer are unbeatable threat they were back when they were the only viable option.
No they do need any more buff because that definition of power creep.
If you can't see how that is relevant to the thread and the issue JibberJabberJobber touched on, perhaps you should not participate any further?
I perfectly fine debating JibberJabberJobber thank you.