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Unfortunately, addressing this inconsistency was deemed out of scope.

I never claimed that the changes WBP on Quad are bad, I have not tested enough. Although a X3,333% buff sound a bit big.

"Increased the chance for the Quad to take down an airplane from 30 in 10000 to 10 in 100"

Allies also have non loitering planes.
Soviet have "skill shot" planes USF have "skill shot" planes. Skill shot planes are meant to be shot down before attacking. they are countered by moving out of the way.

IMO if the area has a "solid" AA investment (meaning Quad/Flak HT, Ostwind/Centaur) there is absolutely no reason you should call a plane. Right now AA performance vary greatly (Centaur been god and M5 Quad been crap) but i would rather have godly AA than crap AA.

I guess you meant NOT to be shot down? Problem with strafe/bombing planes is that their performance vary greatly from map to map. If it's cast close to the border of the maps there's no chance you can avoid them. On the same hand, if the map is huge (4v4) it won't hit shit cause it takes an eternity to arrive. If you have to protect an artillery piece and you spend resources on AA to protect it, well it should work IMO.

If we talk about skill shot planes in a non sarcastic way (non loiter), then there is not such great things on the allies nor in general (beside bombing strikes).
SU: it has the IL2 bombing (mimic to OH) and the AT grenade from tank hunter. Unfortunately the IL2 single strafe is "bad" due to bugs (2+ years and counting)
USF: P47 strafe is underperforming or over-costed for what it does. Recon from Major is nice i guess.
UKF: i've seen only twice (both by me on a stomping) the Typhoon strafe from FoP. Never seen Hold the line work and neither Assault recon planes.
OKW: zzzz
OH: it has the only 2 worthwhile strafes in the game. Unfortunately it's not meta required atm (there's no allied Artillery piece been built).

There are 3 things which have to be stopped immediately: recon planes (which allows arty offmap), bombing strikes (SU both variants + OH) and OH AT strafe (due to sheer amount of damage to non vehicle).

I would like to give the same treatment to the OKW Sturm officer

No veterancy bonuses and all infantry units retreat when the officer get's killed

So in other words, armor is slighly better vs LMG, but at the same time useless vs HMG and mounted MGs, which makes in obsolete mechanism.
So, what's better - armor which gives just a slighlty better protection vs LMGs or RA which gives better protection against all small arms?

Check this post.

Its quite simple. Armour has the advantage against small arms that have over 100% accurancy on the range in consideration (excluding crits like sniper shots). Armour and RA are equal against all the other small arms that are not crits. In every other situation RA is better.

At vet 0 it doesn't matter unless you are somehow staying on red cover against specific units (mostly rifles weapon based with high accuracy such as Gren/Ober/Storm/Guard/Paras).
Once you get vet2/3 (or more for OKW) and you hit accuracy bonuses or you are using certain abilities which improve it, you might get over 100% accuracy (mostly at close/mid range). Since the only armor base infantry unit available for the common people (not sure if Assault Flamer PG are still around for some Dev) are Shocks, SU/UK/AEF are not worth mentioning. All cases are at near range where acc is higher. Bolded for the effective units at close range.

OKW
Sturmpios: vet 5 if they are fighting vet 0 Shock.
Volks: STG don't met the mark. Kar only at vet4 against vet 0 shock
Ober: IR STG don't met the mark. Their Kar has the highest value on the game (.81/.92). Once they hit vet 2 they will pass vet0 Shocks, even at far. Against vet2 shocks at near they will still pass 100% accuracy.
Falls: nope
PF: Kar at vet2, G43 at vet4 against vet 0 shock.
JLI: G43 nope. Yep with Kar at vet3 against vet0 shock

OH:
Pio: nope
Gren: Kar at vet 2 against vet0 shocks. Nope for G43/LMG
PG: nope for Mp44. Vet 3 G43 against vet 0 shock
Osstruppen: nope when out of cover. When in cover they always hit (if the bonus is actually 300%)
AG: nope
Storm: kar at vet 2 vs vet0 shocks, nope on g43/STG
ArtyOff: kar/luger vet3 vs vet0 shock.

Other cases which helps on surpassing 100%.
When fighting in red cover it's +25% acc.
OH: Ambush cammouflage, Arty officer, Medkit drop.
OKW: Valiant Assault, Sturm officer debuff, vet 5 PV, For the motherland

And guess what, the majority of small arms weapon have penetration of 1.

In addition at point blank range or on red cover most weapons have enough accuracy to have close to 100% chance to hit removing most protection from smaller target size, shock on the other hand with their armor still enjoin around 66% protection from it.

First of all that's false, unless you are accounting for accuracy buffs through abilities and/or accounting for veterancy buffs against units without it. Still that only applies to a limited pool of weapons. Most of the time, offensive vet gets offset by defensive vet.
You need a weapon with base accuracy higher than +0.70 combined with an accuracy modifier of +40% for that to happen.

You are also wording the Shocks protection wrongly (IMO). Cause it looks like they are protected 66% of the time whenever they are hit (by pen 1.0) when it's only 33% of the time.
If you had armor of 150 and pen of 100 you wouldn't say they are protected 2/3 of the times. I know your probably intention as to say they have "0.66 size/RA".

The correct part is that 90% of small arm weapons have pen of 1.0. LMG/BAR/MG gunners and some vehicle MGs are the ones with values higher than one.

Finally reminder that mathematically, accuracy values through vet are always higher to RA in order to keep the same value almost equal.
Ex: weapon with 0.5 acc. If it gets an +40% increase, it goes to 0.7. To offset this you need a -29% RA (from size 1). 0.7 * 0.71 gives you 0.497.

Try red cover as I mentioned with 125% accuracy modifier in many cases.

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You mean 1.25 or 25%

Why are you using the LMG when it has the worst performance at close. If you took the "Honor Kar" it has a value of 0.92.
0.92 * 2/3 = 0.613... Wow, such numbers. See, it's useless to make this calculations.

The discussion is pointless as accuracy is not the only compound on DPS. Armor on infantry is only kept on the game as a visual thing, as Shocktroops actually had an armor plate on them.