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I think the way to go with cons would be remove some utility then give a weapon upgrade.

I mean, a mosin of extra dps is a mosin of extra dps. A model of extra durability is a model of extra durability.

Anyway, I'll give my reasons why extra models and cost reduction is better than a weappn upgrade.

1: Identity/uniqueness
Cons are obviously unique among mainlines in that they do not have access to weapon upgrades without commanders. A small part is at least keeping that small unique aspect. Also, back during the games release, 6 man squads were genuinely unique and an actual identifiable strength of each soviet unit. With the release of osttruppen, paras, and panzerfusiliers since then, this part of soviets/cons has kind of lost its exclusivity. Other factions can get similarly durable squads, and so cons lost that selling point. A 7th man at least brings that advantage back to the table.

2. Cons as a utility unit
The one thing that most people seem to agree that cons have as a strength is their utility. A weapon upgrade would probably shift this identity to that of a more generic mainline. Yes, they would still have utility, but they wouldnt be a squad thats about their utility anymore. More so, giving them a weapon upgrade would end up disincentiviszing the use of merge. Basically, the opportunity cost of using merge goes up since each con model is worth more combat power. An extra model and reinforce on the other hand incentivizes the use of merge. You save even more manpower when merging, and can merge more since you have more models to spare.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the extra model makes their construction time for sandbags faster. Also, for the few doctrines that have con repairs, itll also make them repair faster, as minor as all this is.

3. A reason to use them instead of penals
If we make cons a part of the dps race, then the choice between penals and cons becomes less meaningful. Unit with dps and some utility #1 (cons), or unit with a little more dps #2 (penals). Cons are something of a combined arms option becuase of their ability to merge and build cover. At grenades are the kind of thing you pair with a zis to fend off vehicles, while ptrs and at satchels are the "do it yourself" option. The 7th man upgrade and reduced reinforce caters more towards cons combined arms identity than a weapon upgrade would. And, as opposed to penals, who are supposed to operate and win by literally winning engagements, the con upgrade helps cons win not necessarily by making them win a given engagement, but by trading more efficiently that your opponent.

Reasons.

Also, at that time, AT weapons did full damage against infantry, meaning you had a non-negligible chance to instantly snipe a model with the schreck. Schreck/zook/handheld rockets have been changed to do reduced damage (1/4th, for pschrecks it seems) against infantry. Apparently they also get reduced accuracy if I'm reading it correctly.

And it can also deal zero damage if it hits nearby buildings instead. RNG is hardly a good agrument in favor of it

It works absolutely fine as an argument. You just think of it in terms of expected value. If 10% of the time it takes a tiger down to maybe 5% health as in the video (some 1000 damage), 20% of the time takes a tiger down to half, and 60% of the time does around 30% to a tiger, and 10% hit terrain and does nothing entirely, then you just use that information. It will usually do moderate damage, and sometimes hit terrain, but can occasionally high roll and absolutely destroy tanks. While I would prefer the outcomes be more uniform and the numbers be tuned more (I personally think it should be pretty usable against infantry/weapon teams) its a 100 muni ability, and as such is relatively spammable. Those sorts of outcomes are about what I would except for a 100 muni ability.

The meta for soviets would become 10 T70's into IS2.

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But what's the actual skill you're referring to ("this skill"). My understanding is that you're referring to tac map usage and/or good micro. If so, I'm not sure what to say as the importance of those things is already common knowledge.