2 non meta doctrines, one is terrible.
Most expensive HMG in the game.
It might be a shocker, but OKW is not supposed to YOLO frontally all allied HMGs, despite the fact that they can do it against 3 out of 4 of them.
Happy now?
Well, Lend-Lease is common doctrine for soviets, faced it like 3-5 times this week (out of my 10 axis games). It allows them to skip tiers and spam medium tanks with a very good HMG.
240-260-300...doesnt make a difference, but the low reinforcement cost makes up for it.
It might be a shocker, but when you try to YOLO flank the HMG and it just repositions in a split second then insta suppresses your guys before even they can throw a grenade.