Profile of Hannibal

Maybe in 1v1, but in 3v3 or 4v4, conscripts are no more than a starter unit, and without elite infantry there is nothing to do in these modes. So in these modes, a detachment of 6 people completely remains.

I'd rather leave 6 people hoping for something like this:
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And I would always prefer at least one DP-27 over the 7th person in the detachment.

Not that I can speak of high rank gameplay, but I find Conscripts incredibly useful in 3v3 because with the amount of artillery around, you have a unit that you can just toss into the points. I wouldn't like to use my Guards for that, they don't offer any benefit against any explosive weapon and Brummbars are more then plenty in 3v3

And I'd rather take a weapon than a seventh man. It's more efficient. I still do not understand why why there is only this option without an alternative.

If I say，LMG especially LMG42 for any 6 men squad will be very useful，even Ostruppen...And Soviet squad not have accuracy debuff，cheap 6 men with LMG why you think it worse than 7 men upgrade...
And basic COH2 game rule，4 men with 2x slot weapon when you lost 3 men it will have chance drop weapon，6 men with 1 or 2 slot weapon of course hard to drop，I think this is why already reduce Soviet Guards DP and PTRS and USF BAR drop rate，and I think no reason make single squad too strong，like 2X LMG34 Ober squad ，2x LMG or PanzerSchreck Soviet squad.....

Part of my point was that e.g. Grenadiers can always upgrade their MG42 and still pick up a weapon later. With Conscripts, you usually don't have that option. No one keeps a 6 men Conscript around just in case it will be able to pick up a weapon during the game. You usually upgrade them to 7 men right away. 6 men Cons with pick up weapon happen either during the early game when the 7 men upgrade is not available or during the late game when you cannot upgrade (yet) due to munition shortage.
I am not sure about Volks: Are they able to pick up a weapon after being upgraded? Don't think so, but not sure. Anyway, weapon drops happen rarely as OKW since they don't have many units on the field that can actually drop a weapon, like Sturmpios and Obers.

Ok so you unironically tell the whole forum that it's better to retreat shock troops in order to reinforce them for x amount of manpower rather than using merge and retreating cons in order to reinforce them for x/2 amount of manpower.

I would really hate to play with you as team.

There is benefit of merging into Guards in my opinion, but not into Shock troops. Shocks are balanced around having their 1.5 armor to close in. If they don't have that, they will just drop before coming properly close to deal damage. At this point, you'd really be better of with a Conscript rifle that can do at least some damage mid to long range.

And even if we look at the pure MP cost: vs small arms, the MP cost is almost completely offset by missing armor and higher base RA.

Seeing only 4 games as all SOVs further illustrates my point that you only see heavy SOV loaded games at level 12 and down. It also shows that the level 12 and down players have the chances to win that I posted since the stats are ALL games.

Looking at all of the data and playing around with some ratios I do believe that 4xSoviets is probably the weakest matchup there is out there at the moment.

However, I am not sure if the 4x Setups is really what we should look at. Those matchups make up a very small part of all games (currently ~3% overall regarding all Soviet teams, which probably increases to whatever percent further down the ladder). I'd not subscribe to your "More soviets = lose." statement, not only because it is "too generalized", but also wrong in many parts.
There seems to be indication that adding a Soviet to a "pure" USF or pure UKF team brings down the win rate. In that regard, the statement is correct. However, adding a second or third Soviet does not do an awful lot. Only a pure Soviet team then again seems to be disfavoured.
Adding a Soviet to a mixed team of USF and UKF often even improves the winrate or does not really diminish it.

To make it short: We can only guess how many "all Soviet" games happen at the bottom of the ladder. However, they are very likely quite rare events. All Soviet teams are likely disfavoured, but it also seems to be unlikely that you get multiple of these games by random chance. I'd say the contribution of these specifically is probably rather low, especially considering that rank 12 is mid ladder and higher rankings go along with more even usage of all factions, thus less chance for all Soviet games.

It would be great to have some data that actually shows what we try to discuss here, at the moment we have to assume so many parameters and other factors that could play a role.

At least on paper the 76mm Sherman is a decent tank. Can't make real judgement on the current in game situation since I have not used it in ages, mostly because I play primarily team games. I think the reason I don't see it is that the 76mm is just stuck in bad commanders for team games. In 2v2 it MIGHT still work, but you have way better commander choices. Both commanders lack late game potential, and medium spam tactics don't work as well if your opponents have StuGs and Panthers available.