Firstly, volks cost you more, start from that. Secondly stock cons can and will beat stock volks at close range, and thats how cons are supposed to be used in a first place. Its harded to charge and beat volks, then grens, its true. But they are rufly that ~20 additional MP harder to beat then grens. Cons have sprint for that excact reason to be used upclose.
yeah normally you would be correct ever since the volk nerf... the issue is trying to match volks with conscripts is not doable as conscripts have an additional setup cost for molotov AND at grenades while OKW gets it for free... this is why the meta against OKW isnt trying to match them conscript per volk which ties in to the second point...
Yeah, because both Ost and OKW has access to UC\M3\Jeep equvalent from the get go, its so unfair that soviets have to unlock AT nades facing supperior vehicles from 1 minute mark. Ppl keep bringing this stuff up, completly ignoring the fact that axis dont have any early vehicles aside from kubel what so ever. But at any point for OKW nades and faust should be swaped anyway. Nade after set up, faust after call in.
if youre trying to match OKW in conscript per volk you dont actually expect to see an M3 at all... however it also isnt feasable to match OKW conscript per volk for the reason i pointed out earlier... instead the meta against OKW is easily M3>penal and not conscript spam.... this is because 1. cons spam cannot match volk spam and 2. the M3>penal can abuse OKW much more easily
Synergy is simple. PPSH cons are direct upgrade to cons usage. Upgrade to make squad made to be used upclose, have upclose DPS boost. Volks MP40 makes them into different squad completly.
not really but ill get to that in a bit...
Not to mention that with each volk MP40 model dead, ppsh cons wont lose DPS from PPSH until 4 models are dead.
i hope you know that overall this is a disadvantage not an advantage....
Also you are still trying to compare PPSH cons to MP40 for unknown reason. Thouse are 2 completly different upgrades, the only common thing is that they are both locked behind commander. PPSH is a base utility upgrade, MP40 is a role changer. If anything MP40 volks should be compared with SVT cons.
id say 7 man seems to enhance the base role of conscripts... conscripts are a delaying squad and a damage sponge for units with greater firepower till they get veterancy while sporting close range DPS... 7 man directly contributes to that... PPSH not soo much... PPSH actually forces cons to go on the offensive and to charge the opponent instead of trying to delay... cons ppsh definitely qualifies as a role changer and the compaison is completely valid
SVT cons are great and 7-men are great, PPSH package is just weaker in comparacent, but its still a solid and good upgrade overall, and vet 3 cons with it are very good aswell.
yeah vet 3 cons are good... but honestly i dont think good vet 3 justifies bad vet 0 performance... not exactly a design decision i agree with... but then again maybe 6x ppsh might be dangerous thanks to vet 3 performance especially as the PPSH`s performance will scale directly with vet... in any case there is no justification as to why the MP40 should outclass PPSH soo a buff to PPSH must be done...
maybe give cons ppsh the 20% vet boost plus an HE nade or smoke and a cost reduction... though i doubt a vet boost alone is enough...