No,like shocktroopers,whatever your ober upgrade,you can't hold back them even them come from 35m
And OKW already have SturmPioneer combat at Close range,and Volks can fight all range,Ober is elite infantry is no doubt,but they coming too late so most time when they come,they will face weapon group,armor and many support AOE,they are very hard to survival if you use them to assault,only in few maps IR.stg44 is better than MG34——but why I dont choose FireStorm commander and upgrade Volks assault package?
Because Firestorm is not a good commander ?
The assault package are SMGs, which have a huge drop off from mid to long range. The STG package for Volks is still better all around, what the assault package might give you is indeed utility.
DON'T USE THEM as if they were assault Grenadiers. Think about PGs Elite with actual long range dmg.
Just for the sake of curiosity i did some test to compare Obers with IR STG vs LMG34 against Shocks.
Around 4/8 runs each, Obers staying still waiting for Shocks to get face to face.
No cover, yellow and green
Vet 0 and vet 3, both on equal vet. So either 0 vs 0 or both vet 3.
In every case, the IR STG stays on top against the LMG34 (either by doing more dmg or actually winning)
Vet 0:
No cover: basically you never win. I got 1/8 win with STG but it was a sliver of health left.
Yellow/green: REALLY close but you win like 33% of the cases with STG and only 1/8 runs the LMG34 won. In the case of the LMG34 it had great variance for some reason.
Vet3:
No cover: 50/50 with STG and pretty close but mostly losing with LMG34
Yellow/Green: reliable (+75%) won with STG and 50/50 with LMG34.
In any case, Shocktroops basically lose like 25%/40% till they manage to get face to face (you can retreat without losing meaningful HP). I didn't tried with nades, cause in both cases, both units get access to either smoke + normal nade or nuke + cancer smoke nade.
PD: Something that didn't happened at vet0 is that on 2/8 cases with the IR STG, is that they suppressed the Shocks (anecdotal cause it was mostly at the end of the fight). I forgot about that, the IR STG has passive suppression (no, it's not the abilitiy)
PD2: i forgot that Obers Kar have passive suppression.