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Its also an insane amount of early pressure since you get two squads right out of the gate, one of which is probably the best CQB early unit.

On one hand, I think this is an advantage that is very much understated or never considered.

On the other hand, these units do appear from the edge of the map, which means this doesn't quite have as large of an impact as you would think it would.

Anyway, as someone who has wanted more discussion on assault engineers to take place, what do you and everyone else feel the problem is with them? Obviously your post implies you think they bring too much early pressure, but I'd like to hear why you think this is the case (the problematic factor(s) that leads to this).

For what it's worth, I'm leaning towards Sander's suggestion for them because I think their early combat performance is straight up too high.

After playing for a few years, I cannot really determine what separates the absolute top players from top 150.

Top players get 4 retreat snipes in a row. Typical L2P issue tbh.

You present a lot of things as givens when theyre actually just generally not true. There is no consensus or general belief that penals are too good. Always make sure your assumptions and given points are true before you move on to your actual talking points.

More concerning than that though are your solutions. Option 2 is so out of left field and random. If theyre overperforming for their cost, then how does making their satchel absurdly expensive fix any of that? It would also be one of the more pointless nerfs this game has seen as the satchel is hardly used and soviets usually float tons if munitions anyway.

Option 1 is actually a buff... Penal svts already perform very similarly to volksgrenadier rifles (DPS wise), except for the fact the svts have a slightly better performance at close range, so its close to a neutral change. Gren g43s on the other hand have a noticeably higher close range performance, and absurd moving performance.

I guess my point is that none of the contents of your post seem justified logically.

The point hasnt come up in a while, but I still feel the need to say that people using the 223s potential role as a resource gain unit in order to compare the unit to the opel blitz are missing the biggest relevant point.

As someone who tried to make opel blitzes work in 1v1s, I found the biggest issue is their durability. As soon as my opponent realized I had an opel blitz, it would die. An m20 driving by would instantly destroy it. A combat engineer squad would destroy the opel blitz before it could finish packing up and get away. It is nearly impossible to keep them alive long enough to make the investment worth it (unless you had your opponent pushed so far off of the map that you were going to win anyway - at which point you would prefer more manpower to more fuel or munitions). The opel blitz is a resource gain unit that dies before it can actually get you any resources; its not actually functional in this role.

The 223 on the other hand, between its armor, hp, smoke at vet 1 (which you should have easily achieved if you actually used the unit), and vehicle detection, is fairly easy to keep alive on most maps. With proper attention, it can usually even survive medium tank dives. The fact that the 223 actually stays alive long enough to give you resources makes a world of difference. Its A LOT better at getting you resources than an opel blitz is.

It surely does take the fair while - so fair while that capping units finish capping and the enemy AT has a lot of time to come for aid

I watched VonIvan vs Prodigy game recently. USF took stuart and lost map control vs Flak HT. The stuart supposed to counter enemy LVs, but having a simple raketen near Flak disabled the stuart completely. If the enemy covers LVs with some rudimentary AT, then your stuart has a very tiny use.

As opposed to which other balanced light vehicle which isnt shut down by an AT gun?

Anyway, it can usually force squads them off in a timely enough manner if theyre forced to cap.