And equally it is not strange it would take more than one unit to deal with a 390mp shock or a 400mp obersoldaten, but to get those there is teching and getting CPs.
It is however ridiculous that first StP dosen't have to be built, it is granted to the player at the start of the game. Thats is all we are saying. Not that it shouldn't exist but that in early it is way to good for its capability.
Lower the price to >200mp, give them Kar98s to start with and then make them upgrade to MP44s and the problem is gone.
Sorry that is just bullshit.
No unit is granted for free. Every faction starts with the same manpower, the first unit is subtracted from it.
You have during early game all the time a number advantage.
By the time you have 3 riflemen on the field and the 4th producing you opponent can have maximally 2 stormpios and 1 volks.
Building more pios denies him: teching, thus medics, and by this a forward retreat point.
You basically ask that rear echolon troops should be equal to stormpios or riflemen should be equal. That's not gonna happen, since stormpios cannot be spammed.
Stormpios never ever had Kar98s, they were trully elite troops of the wehrmacht, to gimp them down and break immersion just because you want to beat them with your first rifle men squad or conscript squad states how little you understand of the game. Get out a M3 and you beat them, get 1 rear echolon and one riflemen and you beat them.
It's just a learn to play issue.