Profile of Pip

Crew sizes are an inherent advantage of the Soviet faction. You've probably noticed you get 6 man crews if you recrew another faction's weapon. If you're willing to put in the manpower you could even gain 6-man Shock Troop MG 42's that can watch their own asses.

Correct, and they're rather too strong. Though you pay an extra premium on population on captured crew weapons, and you can't /build/ the MG42, you have to capture them.

I do think that these weapons shouldn't be balanced around their crew sizes though, if it's a factional trait. Soviet crew weapons should have the same crew size as other factions, or the number of crewmen should be tied to the weapon, not the faction crewing it. Either of these options would leave room for the Maxim to be buffed, and reduce the problems that soviet crews cause.

That's good to know, what throws me off is the descriptions themselves, but as far as I was aware the g43s were generally meant to do the same thing for all units that upgrade to the weapon

You can ignore the descriptions, honestly.

The OST sniper G43 is a sniper rifle that literally cannot be fired on the move.

The JLI G43 is a crit-rifle that instakills models under an HP threshhold, has an inverse accuracy statistic, and is abysmal on the move, with I think a 10% moving accuracy.

"Elite" G43s (Jaeger Command (Totally different from Jaeger Light Infantry), Pgren, Stormtrooper) are exceptional rifles, primarily being close-range oriented, with strength out to midrange, and still being an upgrade over most bolt actions at literally every range... and also having superior moving accuracy to most weapons.

Non-elite G43s (Grens, etc) are similar to Elite G43s, same moving accuracy, still being best at close range... but have generally lower DPS than Elite G43s. Still an upgrade over bolt actions. The Gren and Fusilier ones have different DPS statistics, but broadly the same curve.

Yes, just like weapon crews and elite infantry bar one or two have different weapons then regular infantry.

How many of them are /completely/ different weapons to other variants of the same model? The closest comparison I can think of are elite vs non-elite LMGs... and they're different primarily in that one can fire on the move, not that they have totally different functionality.

Shocks and Conscripts both have PPSH, but one isnt suddenly an LMG because it's held by a different squad.

I do think an lmg upgrade for panzer grenadiers is a cool idea, I mean this would be more historically accurate as well. However I am guessing they do not have this upgrade for balance reasons. Maybe if they specifically added this upgrade to a doctrine so it's not a stock upgrade? And I do have to say, if you can find a dropped lmg with a panzer gren squad it's quite the firepower boost

The squad isnt really intended for long range fighting, that's what Grenadiers are for. It's already a little bit concerning that they have the G43 upgrade, which a pretty silly damage profile at long range (Despite their G43s being a "close range" weapon).

Pgrens want to be mobile, if you see a dropped LMG you want to be giving that to Grens, not to your Pgrens. It's kind of a waste of the squad.

If you're going to try to troll please try making more of an effort.

The sad reality is that the last patch didn't have the permissions to go full deep on UKF and without a real rework out of Bolster to spread out it's powerspike towards other units and helping the faction have the right tools for teamgames (USF is in a similar spot) you won't see also any amount of commander diversity.

I seriously don't understand why Lelic insist on hamstringing the Balans Team like this. I get that they want to preserve factional "identity", but they really need to decide between allowing the team to make major changes (Removing/completely reworking bolster, giving UKF a nondoc indirection option, etc), or giving them greater modding access, and allowing them to implement new units to provide "flavourful" alternatives/patch these grievous wounds in the faction. (I.E: 2-inch mortar UC). The latter option might allow the team to implement enough new/interesting units to let them flesh out hammer/anvil in such a way to make the whole "two armies" thing a reality.