"I need to show a unit is overperforming so wait let me just get as perfect example a well known UP unit nobody uses over penals except for doctrinal ppsh"
Seems legit !!!
Back in the days volks had shreck, they never had any meatshield role ever.
Nor that they were meant to, cons were, and had a good maxim/tier 2 to complement it.
People complain about volks being only slighly less good than 1 bar rifles for a total mp difference of 3 mp per model and 0 muni difference but you are conviniently forgetting cons cost 5 mp less per model.
Why a unit with 0.81 RA should cost more than that if it has inferior dps to anything but an actually UP unit that ADDICTIONALLY, EVEN IF IT WASN'T OP, it should be TRULY dirtly cheap cannon fodder priced 20 mp per model, litterally NOTHING ?
AND, EVEN FREAKING WORSE, PEOPLE BITCH ABOUT VET 5 volks performances when okw can't build caches and has extremely expensive armor because of that.
IT'S A JOKE....XD
Dont get me wrong both Penals and Volks should be tuned down a bit. Penals perhaps more.
You are forgetting that USF needs to pay 150 mp and fuel for BARs in order to reach the same level of the volks. And another 150 mp and 25 fuel in order to get nades. And then after 120 munis additionally the riflemen become better. Meanwhile the OKW guy floats enough MP to get a 4-5 unit volks blob with STGs.
Also not even the doctrinal PPSh can make cons reach the level of Volks, they are still trash.
And yes Volks were frequently used as meatshields but with shreks. The Obers were the main anti infantry unit.
Not to mention cons have to tech up all their nades ontop of that...