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Affe I edited the battle of the bulge & Operation Queen wikipedia articles, stating that 35 Tiger Is engaged the enemy during the offensive, when actually it never happened

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Looks like a purple heart faceplate, the medal they give to the wounded.

C'est une plaque avec la médaille des blesés de guerre des E.U.A

I'd rather have them working on optimizing the game, so the community can play it decently at +60fps on 2000$ Gaming PCs.

Obersever mode is a neat feature, but there are more pressing issues.

I read what you write, you just write poorly so it's difficult to get your point.

Now I comprehend you better, you want carbines to be a long range weapon profile. But you're stuck in the past, Carbines where long range 6 months ago. TODAY they are mid range/close range which makes more sense as rate of fire is more important for close quarters; so are flame-throwers. There's nothing more counter-productive than giving long range DPS units a flame-thrower as one model will carry it and never use it as it is out of range, you just lose DPS (See combat engineers).

What you want is a Penal Battalion overhaul. However for simplicity sake it's easier to give conscripts a DP-28 and call it a day than overhauling the whole carbine weapon profile and redesign Penals from scratch.

The only way to make Penal Battalions adept at long range is to give them 6 mosin nagants and accuracy bonuses on par or better than the one Guards have. Then switch the flame-thrower upgrade for a single DP-28. I like your assault package suggestion that gives them SVT-40s and the explosive satchel for mid-range range, it's sound. That way Penal Battalions remain as a dedicated AI unit with zero AT.

I really don't care if either Conscripts or Penal Battalions get redesigned for long range, but the Red Army needs a better long Range unit. The more pragmatic option is giving a DP-28 to conscripts.

It's either tweaking one of these two units or change the whole carbine profile and make it the dominant long range weapon profile again (Which will affect all factions).

I still believe that soviets have way too many different infantry squads compared to axis, that's why they overlap so much and no one uses Penals, they are redundant. When was the last time people consistently used partisans (Whose weapons are RNG dependent), irregulars or Penals? Ostheer has Grenadier, Pioneers, Panzergrenadiers, Osttruppen and Assault Grenadiers, none of those overlap in their combat roles (besides Assgrens and Pios, but one is the builder and repair unit). They need to cut the fat out of the Red army.

Lastly I'm not against your suggestions Elchino7, we just have different approaches to solve the same issue with the Red Army lack of Ranged DPS.

To be honest I really do not understand why some of you want to turn the Penal Battalions into a LONG RANGE UNIT, when they are designed from scratch to be a MID-RANGE UNIT.

SVT-40s are excellent at mid-range and are still strong close range, the flame-thrower upgrade makes Penals even more deadly at close range, on top of that SVT-40s are great when on the move and closing in on the enemy.

If you make them long range what's the point of upgrading to a flame-thrower? The same issue plays out with Combat engineers, as the flame-thrower synergises much better with pioneers and their MP-40s, making them a viable combat unit, it's not the case for combat engineers.

On the other hand, Conscripts use bolt-action rifles which are more accurate while static and at longer ranges, they are penalized when moving in, oorah is meant to be used to get closer to cover and shoot from there. Therefore the DP-28 synergises well with conscripts, and not at all with Penals.

Also, IRCC, you need TWO DP-28s to have the same damage output of a single LMG42, I think that's why Guards get two for 100 munitions. Therefore a single DP-28 for 60 munitions unlocked when either T3 or T4 is built seems fair, conscripts will still deal slightly less damage than LMG42 Grenadiers, considering also that they are much less accurate than Grendadier or Guards(I'm not a file digger I don't know all the modifiers).

I vote YES for giving conscripts a DP-28 as the Red Army needs decent non-doctrinal infantry to evolve from cheese support weapons spam tactics. Especially against amazing OKW infantry.

It goes without saying that if a conscript upgrades to the single DP-28 he should not be able to equip PPSH-41s.