Profile of steel

Topic 1 Conscripts

So after playing as Ost for three days and Soviet for three days I find conscripts pretty underwhelming. In my game as Ost, the conscripts are now better for the first few fights against the grens but once the LMG42 start appearing the conscripts have no real purpose except Merging, AT nade(around the corner) and getting thrashed by HMG42. Same experience when I played as Soviet. The LMG42 just allows the grenadiere to dominate the conscripts. PPSH is the saving grace but it's not in every doctrine except for a few worth using like Soviet Reserve army, Advanced Warfare and Soviet Shock Army. The main cause of this is the received accuracy modifier. While I like this modifier to simulate the poorly-trained/average soldier, it's just plain unfair that Soviets have to bench(sacrifice) the conscripts later in the game and rely on Guards and Shocks.

What I propose is to give the Soviets conscripts something to fight back.

#1 PPS43 SMG
Giving 3 PPS43 SMG to the conscripts to boost their fighting power at close range. If you're wondering where I got this idea it's from Red Orchestra 2. I got killed by this thing more than by the PPSH41 or grenades.

#2 DP28
Give one DP28 to conscripts. Can be implemented in 2 ways;
a) Weapon upgrade that will cost ammo to get.
b) Upgrade through a building like COH1 BAR and every current and future squad will have a DP28 (Which makes sense since the DP28 was cheap to manufacture and the Soviets ought to have a lot of factories producing small arms).

#3 SVT40
Give 2/3 SVT to the conscripts for mid range buff.

Topic 2 Maxims 1910 HMG

In the games as Ost, the Maxims are plain useless against my grenadiere. I find that the MG42 just dominates in suppression and as a Machinegun. I take it that it's this way because of the received accuracy modifier on the grenadiere that the suppression is so little? If it's gonna be kept this way then we should consider buffing the maxim to have better AOE suppression and slightly bigger arc. I do not intend to revive the Maxim spam for those players (which I feel they went over to Ost to spam the 3x more reliable MG42, makes all the German players look bad in the eyes of others).

I'm not going to go over USF, it's even more of a mess than the Soviets are.

Before anyone goes around calling me an allied/Soviet fanboy, take note I'm an Ostheer player mainly with an almost equal number of games as Soviet.

Topic 3 Penal Battalion

I find that the penals role overlap with conscripts by fighting mid range. Why not buff them to be slightly better at long range since those are actually trained officers(trained officers=trained soldiers ) stripped of their ranks and sent to take impossible missions.

honestly that's what i was expecting before WFA release a badass "air power commander" with strafes bombings etc something like OST close air support

You want this commander?

P-47 Thunderbolt recon
C-47 Skytrain supply drop
P-47 Thunderbolt strafe
P-47 Thunderbolt bombing run
P-47 Thunderbolt Rocket strike

On-topic

I think buffing the M36 to have more armour at the front and to 640 health and a small penetration buff will do. The problem is not that USF can't tank but they can't fight german heavies. Giving the M36 more armour, penetration and health will fix this issue. The M36 has thick armour at the front IRL.

OR the said employee could be testing the strategy in a live ambient of gaming ("the automatch lands"), instead of the conforting closed quarters of Relic. Is the said unit OP? The strategy goes as easy as the screaming community says it does? Does it tip the scales? It's best to test this with some real brawling.

Maybe he could be stressed out. AFAIK, the other player did insult him. Who knows what's going on in his life? That does not justify the insulting, but the dude deserves a warning, not burning alive at the stake.

Edit: forgot the quote

If he's testing out a unit/strat, maybe he should tell his opponent first? Just curious why he doesn't do that.

"Hey. I'm gonna test out this unit/strat just to see if it's OP/UP or not. So do understand why I'm doing this."

Could say something like what I have shown above.

I choose adapt and wait. Much better for me.

Except their close range DPS got unchanged, gren survivability went up by about 10% and con survivability dropped by about 9%.

So while they will beat grens, they have harder time doing so them pre patch.

Are you sure? Pre-patch I would lose 2 model to kill grens at close range. Post-patch I would only lose 1 model sometimes none.