I find it funny that Soviets want to capture every dropped German weapon on the map whereas German players probably won't ever bother picking up the Maxim or 82mm mortar and would probably only pick up a ZiS.
They should probably focus on balancing the support weapons on both sides so they are all useful in some manner before doing any drastic changes to penal battalions and such infantry.
Well yeah,MG 42 is gg mod
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Oh and On-Topic Penals are great vs. any infantry,a PGren squad managed to flank but I had Penals in the area...Pgrens lost 2 men before getting in range,so they are good and didn't win onlt because of stolen MG....every unit played it's part
Off-Topic:It's really funny how Germans don't know what to do when you have MG
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