0CP: Assault Grenadiers, Assault Engineers, Section Assault Package, Assault Package (Feuersturm)
1CP: Cavalry Riflemen, Weapons Crate Drop
2CP: Shock Troops, Jaeger Light Infantry Upgrade, Conscript Assault Package (balance patch)
3CP: Rangers, Commandos, Conscript Assault Package (live game)
The most direct comparisons would probably be the Section Assault Package, Assault Package (for Volk), or Weapon Crate (for Penals).
- The Section Assault Package comes at 0CP and grants you 2 Thompsons and 3 STEN's whilst also removing out of cover penalties; although it does lock them out of their Medic and so will not be amassed.
- The Assault Package for Volksgrenadiers costs 45 munitions and provides a full compliment of Assault Grenadier MP 40's, plus smoke grenades; compared to 60 minutions for 3 Conscript PPSh's.
- Closer to home is the Penal Squad, for 45 Munitions they can pick up 4 Shock Troop PPSh's; cheaper, more numerous, and superior to the Conscript PPSh.
- The original counterpart Jaeger Infantry Package is not an assault package, but being an early counterpart to the Conscript Assault Package does make it comparable. Their laser rifles are a far superior upgrade that considerably improves Grenadier DPS at all ranges, compared to the Conscript Assault Package which merely makes them a viable unit.
Not only is the Conscript Assault Package possibly the weakest unit/upgrade of the bunch, but also the latest to arrive. In the initial post I mentioned that CAP is the only "Assault unit" to have a vehicle snare, however this was not correct as the Volksgrenadier Assault Package and counterpart G43 upgrade both retain the Panzerfaust vehicle snare. Furthermore with Penal Troops being the mainstay of Soviet Infantry (not Conscripts) and having a superior PPSh upgrade, there still isn't a whole lot of desire for the Conscript Assault Package in its current form.
It was hard to not go off scope and talk about the problems with Conscripts as a whole, but I want to keep this constrained to the Conscript Assault Package compared to it's contemporaries. I feel this ability has started off weaker than it's counterpart, the Jaeger Light Infantry Package, and has been completely left behind by Western Front Army's / British Forces power creep. Rather than talk about Conscripts as a whole, I just want to see the Conscript Assault Package brought up to par with some of the similar abilities.