Profile of rumartinez89

Damn.. I didn't even think of that. Yeah that would've been pretty cool, wouldn't it've?

Advanced Warfare, Soviet Reserve, Conscript Support could all benefit from Soviets receiving full PPSH upgrade as they would serve as the elites for the doctrines while having fairly exploitable weakness. PPSH upgrade could have been used to unlock Oorah or not depending on balance testing.

The Player would have choice between cons which would be significantly weaker but with AT nade and easier on MP or slower stronger Penal start with power spike to try and get early wipes to keep pressure up as the PPSH will fall off as Axis get more Vet. Mixing would always work well as cons could Merge into PPSH Penals to keep pressure up and obviously Soviet Reserve would allow T2 skip. Both Soviet Reserve and Conscript Support have rapid conscription so planned hard pushes could net a conscript squad to replace lost PPSH Cons/Penals into 7 man Cons.

At CP2 PPSH Penals also compare extremely favorably to the other Soviet elite SMG squads as 1 Penal can be expected to be at Vet2 or extremely close at that point. They will deal more damage and have better survivability compared to Shocks, Airborne and AssGuards. Obviously once they start to vet they will outclass Penals in specific areas but Penals will deal the highest damage consistently due to Vet3.

Shocks have durability and smoke, Airborne have cloak/first strike/smoke, AssG have assault nade/mixed model DPS.

The other advantage Penals would have is more squads, as most know when you see an elite squad be it Obers/Shocks/Rangers they will get focused down. With 3-4 squads of Penals this will be hard to do so it would allow for some interesting matchups. I have had some success using Airborne tactics but the weapon drop telegraphs commander choice and severely limits how fast I can deploy my strat.

Imo penals should not have lost sprint. Just removed the flamer and went from there. Sprint is the stock staple for soviets. Imo a shame they lost it.

Penals dont have a nade that actualy works vs anything but buildings so they wont get easy wipes with sprint and good nades.

The insane stopping power of the mg42 and 34 can handely counteract sprint if properly placed. And sprint was vet locked for them.

Yea, its a shame since Penals with PPSH+Sprint could have been an interesting option as they get a lot unlocked at Vet2. I think a good compromise would have been locking out sprint if AT upgrade was unlocked as they can engine crit everything short of a Heavy tank.

Just imagining penals with sprint, 2 flamethrowers and a satchel charge. Yeah that's a fucking badass unit right there.

I think they removed it back in 2017, they got one of the heaviest nerfs as they made several changes.

Increased POP - makes sense
Received ACC dropped to .85 - for the reinforcement cost, bad idea
cheaper satchel VET3 - Useless
Lost Oorah - seems to be overnerf if losing Target size, Oorah would help with picking engagement
Lost flamethrower - makes sense, made them to strong
Gained AT upgrade

Overall it was a massive nerf that dropped them almost to irrelevancy. The worst part is the most recent infantry patch drops some ACC vet for REC ACC when they should have had it the entire time. I think most players would give up the cheaper Satchel and get the lost ACC back. This would help with scaling as Flames plus Oorah was the issue not SVT damage.

I still think OKW has the best Theoretical Design since it perfectly encapsulates the spirit of late Wehrmacht army: very experienced veterans with little technical means so scavenging becomes really important.

If the bonus were, say, 40fuel and 90muni it would be way better since it actually makes sense to risk your squad's life for faster tank production. In its current iteration, it's meaningless.

I agree to some extent, but the application is lacking. I feel like it would have been better if scavenging helped unlock upgrades. The original P4J, when it came as a part of a 2-pack had horrible turret rotation. It would have been cool if scavenging unlocked a turret upgrade so it felt worth it to risk infantry while making it vital to destroy wrecks to keep it out of OKW hands.

Add ratte yes or no then?

Wouldn't it be better to compare the Black Prince to the Maus as both were prototyped but never saw action? They at least got something in a museum so they are both not fiction.