Profile of MilkaCow

Is easiest to reproduce with the Paratroopers. Basically the following happens.

You click to use the ability.
Rangechecks etc get done, if all passes the ability gets triggered.
Unit switches to accessory weapon.
Unit uses the accessory weapon

If you cancel during the last part (i.e. the cooking for the MK2 grenade) then the ability is already over and the weapon is counted as "used", since it started the use. Cancel in this case means new move / target order or the entity dies, you retreat...

A possible fix could be to keep the ability running while it already performs the accessory weapon action, yet that is extremely hard to do. The unit basically gets access to a new weapon for a single use, but will only switch once it finishes it's current action (reloading or whatever). So if you use the time it takes to use that accessory weapon, then you make it rarer, but you do not eliminate the possibility. For example a Fallschirm has a 3+ second reload time, meaning it could take a while till he uses that weapon. If you make it too long, then people can use the ability, wait for the weapon to trigger and cancel the ability to do not make the ability use count. If you are playing a lot, you should know that this could be done with few abilities, if you knew how

Hmm. Like I said previously, I would cut their flamethrower. It's redundant since Combat Engineers already have it and it also overlaps to a degree with Satchel charge (house clearing / destroying etc). Besides that, I hate that flamethrowers sometimes cause uncancellable unit reactions which make it impossible to avoid the satchel.

I'm all for a redesign of the Penals, but if you do something big, I'd rather do it all the way.

Replace penals with a "Guards Rifle" squad consisting of 6 Guard entities armed with the Mosin, placed at 300 MP. Give them a grenade as well, like normal Guards. Strength wise they are slightly inferior to Grens per entity (Gren = 60 MP / entity, these guards would be 50), but the whole squad of course better then.
Not sure about upgrades or maybe make the squad more expensive and spawn with one. As you may know I hate upgrades (since they are hard to balance). Possible would be some sidegrade. 60 munition, 3 SVT-40 and 3 AVT-40 (basically same model, just allows to burst in close range when standing still) to switch them from long range focus to short / mid range focus and keep them weapon wise above Conscript levels.

To compensate for this, the other "Guards" squad would need a rename. To show their 'elite' of the elite status maybe something like "Taman Guards"?

So you are complaining that you had to spend 120 hours playing a video game to get a drop? First World Problems.

80 hp, *1.5 armor if I recall correctly.

Reverting wouldn't fix some of the issues so I think it's useless to talk about that. That was prior to the AoE revamp (mid range should always be below 80 now) to better allow to designate an area in which it's lethal to infantry.
It's rockets were still 160 damage prior to that, allowing it to oneshot trucks which is one of the bigger issues atm :/