Weekend Challenge #2 - Penal Battalion

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Started by Nullist, every weekend we will have a community challenge. The challenge will be to use a specific unit and at the end of the weekend we will post the replays and discuss about the best strategies with this unit and the pros & cons.

This weekend: Penal Battalion!

Can we maybe put this in the news section and use this image ?

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those SVT models look balla

just like the stug challenge, i'll try my best.

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ITS TIME TO PLAY THE PENIS GAME!

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it would be great if rapid consription would give penal battalions. As i know its charge bomb kills pak43 and howitzer.

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9 Aug 2013, 08:13 AMakosi

it would be great if rapid consription would give penal battalions. As i know its charge bomb kills pak43 and howitzer.

It used to - but you were getting better squads for losing the ones you had, made no sense.

Some clever people were bunching their Conscripts up and demo'ing them to get free Penis Battalions

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The Satchel Charge isn't a guaranteed kill on those two emplacements. They need to be damage already.

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Satchel charges can be pretty random

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Those satchels man!! The blast radius actually makes it really really hard to dodge without an instant retreat... They can be so deadly in a multiple front battle and can squad wipe anything!! Had decent success so far with
x2 conscripts
healing
T1-Penal
Guards
m3

Then either get out a 2nd penal or guard squad depending on if he went for a flamer halftrack

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"Hands on Penals"

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I'm streaming and testing the Penals right now.

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3 losses for now

I dont like using M3 so maybe thats y

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I've noticed looking back on my previous Soviet losses - Most are when i build a Penal instead of an additional sniper or calling a guard on.

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Their svts actually do some decent damage against scout cars - they take them down faster than conscripts can with their mosin-nagants. It's a nice early game unit to screen your sniper+clown car. Plus their satchel charges wreck mgs in the open, in heavy cover, and in buildings.

EDIT: especially the building part. waay more reliable than snipers when it comes to clearing those out.

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I never upgrade my Penals with Flamers. It's a liability. Penals only get close for a Satchel Charge, past that they're a long range unit. Flamer is more likely to kill you than help you.