I would typically suppress blobs with an MG42 and shred them with double or even triple Panzerwerthers to ensure a wipe.
Your tactic make me believe that you are mainly playing 4v4/3v3, can you confirm or either post your playercard ?
I'm asking that because balance is not the same at all in 1v1 than in team games
However, you may have noticed that OKW have no decent MG. The MG34 is impotent and takes a good while to suppress
Well, you would be surprised how was MG34 1 year earlier, before relic buff it .. people still managed to supress ennemy blob with it so now it's quite good.
was unable to reproduce the 6 Volks v 5 Penal long-range victory, must've just been a fluke. In which case, Penals are more cost-effective at all ranges.
1. as i stated in my previous post, penal cost 33% more than volksgrenadier (reinforcement cost)
so you got to test 5 penals squad against 6,75 Volksgrenadier which is roughly 7.
2. Penals are far from being as "all rounded" as volksgrenadier, you can't use penal to clear house thanks to their flame grenade, you can't faust ennemy tanks, etc ..
Penals are specialized anti infantry units and so should be better than generic infantry.
In truth, if you want to stick to volksgrenadier, you should compare them to
conscripts.
And let me tell you that a conscript squad will loose every single time, at any range to a volksgrenadier squad.
Add me on steam and i will show you how much okw is stronger than soviet on the matter of basic infantry.