Jokes aside. A tier 4 upgrade that just gave consctips combat training / veteran leadership? In practical terms it could just be a swap of the usual conscript mosin for one with better long range accuracy, and drops their target size back to normal levels?Been here, done that, suggested already
No idea if an Icon Swap is possible but the campaign already has three different consctipt icons.
You could even bundle the hideously overpriced molotovs and AT grenades into one upgrade that you need to get the second upgrade
Both name change and icon change is possible, we have that in the game already (Assault Tommies change icon when upgraded/ M15 halftruck changes name with AA package), I don't know what other changes are possible though (different vet/vet requirements?)
The "Cons discussion" comes up every now and then, everyone agrees they need "something", and then nothing is done about them. You can't touch their base stats because "muh holy gren/con balance" and you can't give them a decent late game DPS upgrade because "hurr con spam", you can do whatever you want to their utility, because utility doesn't kill the enemy, you can't lower their base cost because "hurr con spam".
I guess you could lower their reinforce cost, if you want to lose firefights cheaply.