Your mg42 was not in cover. It had a cover shield because it's south flank was receiving cover from that Bush, however th part pointed at the maxim had no cover.
Only MG's currently provide suppression, however yes the grenadiers kept the North conscripts in battle and didnt let their suppresion recover go back to normal
ah i c, thanks for the explanation. will see how things goes after tomorrows patch, see if any change to this. all i really want is at least HMG42 have same suppression as Maxim, right now Maxim pin my grens faster than I pin conscripts is just annoying and gren don't have anything like Molotov that can force the mg to relocate or wipe a HMG team with just one nade.
right now russian player just have better counter to HMGs and 1 Molotov it is done HMG42 either retreat or dead, on other hand german counter Maxim 1 rifle nade if you lucky you kill 4 if you are not lucky you kill 0, and Maxim just keep firing and gren is force to retreat, please don't say anything like "l2flank with gren", Maxim have 6 men crew and gren in early stage only have 4 rifles (maybe a LMG42 but it have a setup time almost same as Maxim and can't fire while moving if flank fire with LMG42, Maxim can just turn around and pin the gren) maybe kill 2 by flanking and Maxim can just quickly turn around or move to a house no problem.
right now Maxim have 6 men crew, better suppression, faster setup time, and german have weak counter to it in early game.
HMG42 right now have... err... better Arc that is about it, and russian conscripts can just BBQ it with molotov no problem
all i want is Conscript can't Orooah from front eage of LOS of my HMG42 and able to molotov it on the face, if relic change molotov to a nade so it won't force HMG42 to relocation or wipe with 1 nade. i won't have anything to complain too.
and i hope relic could do something about infantry remain in combat then can't recover from pin, that is just weird.
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