Volks dont need more AI
Sturms and Obers are there for a reason.
the faction design isnt that bad tbh
if u have trouble with vehicles. build a reketen, it doesn't suck anymore..
The point of giving Volks AI instead of a Shrek and Sturms shreks would be to encourage people not to blob with shreks, since your non-ober AI in the form of Sturms would be handicapped, you would need to give something to Volks.
(Not to mention this is like saying to a Soviet player that Cons shouldn't get PPsH because shocks and guards exist)
They'd overperform grens.
They are not meant to.
They are supposed to be middle ground between cons and grens, slightly worse then both, which they are now.
Volks need nothing and won't get nothing as long as they have shrecks.
They are supposed to be your core inf until you get call-in infantry or obers, then their role changes to meatshields and AT, they are not supposed to be effective AI unit, but a better scaling conscript, which they currently are.
The whole point is that they would need a new upgrade if they lost the shrek, not that they should just ~magically~ get a new one.
And even if you gave them an StG upgrade they couldn't over preform next to Grens because Grens are much more long range focused than Volks are, not to mention have much more utility than Volks do.
You also don't understand what middle ground means, "worse than both" means "worse than both" not "in between both"
I don't think that a damage buff for their Kars, in this case to 14, would increase their DPS at all ranges that much.
I don't know the DPS formula so I can't comment on that.
a 40% increase in their basic rifle damage like that would make them better at every range, which would be kinda silly as even LMG's DPS drops off at close range. giving them StG 44's would give them close to medium range fire power which they need badly.