grens could use a survivablity buff. Look at all the core allied inf on max vet. IS target size goes down to around 0.52, Rifles also goes down to around 0.55, even lol conscripts get target size of 0.6 on vet3 whilst grenadiers start good with 0.91 but get a horrible vet3 surviavablity bonus. Instead of -23 recc acc on vet3 they should atleast get -29 recc acc on vet3.
As others have mentioned, you need to take the following into account:
- The great cost-efficiency of LMG42
- The offensive stats that grens get (which is 100% transferable to the LMG42)
Stating that grens are fragile, while ignoring the output is like stating that the Jackson needs to be buffed, solely because it has 480HP (without looking at its damage output)
Now:
- Grens are extremely fragile
- I'm not saying that thier DPS output/utility completely makes up for their fragility
However, instead of breaking the game further by giving in to the powercreep, wouldn't it be better to revert some of the lolvet buffs Cons/Rifles have received over the past?
I say breaking, because if we up received accuracy across the board:
- Vehicle-mounted MGs will no longer be able to do their job
- If we up Vehicle MG DPS, we will break them against AT guns
- If we remove received accuracy penalties from AT guns, infantry will have a hard time decrewing them for tanks to go through
- The vicious cycle perpetuates
Finally, note that there are 2 other factions (namely OKW and UKF) whose infantry haven't had the chance to benefit from the lolvet roulette yet. Where is the call for Volksgrenadier/Sturmpioneer vet revamp? (one should go up, the other should go down).
Firesparks has gathered some excellent suggestions there to reverse the ongoing infantry-based powercreep (and also rein LMG-meta in somewhat):
https://www.coh2.org/topic/51037/firesparks-balance-mod