After trying the mod, I think that penal battalions r absolutely OP.
I have an idea to make a difference: everybody knows that penal battalions r accompanied by other friendly units; thus we can establish a new setting that each penal battalion squad must be supervised by 3 conscript squads.This means that only when the soviet player owns X conscript squads can he/she own X/3 penal battalion(s), where X≥3.
This change must be cool.
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- It would be so much better if to use grens or MG42, you needed 5x Pios per non-pio squad.
- Would be so much funner
- Penals need specific building. They cost more than conscripts. Conscripts are T0.
- Why is it OP that they be superior?
- Clown Car's been nerfed into the ground, the MG42s have huge arcs
- Satchel has SHORT range and LONG timer
- By the time you have 4x squads, Germans have 2-3 MG42s. Penal would be completely useless.
- By making it obligatory to have so many units together, you've basically forbidden Soviets to cap.
(spread out and cap)