Profile of Crecer13

The game covers a large area of time, if it was 1944 to 1945 one would not see KV-2 as Soviet unit.

Fact remains that Shtrafbats sustain very heavy causalities and in many cases where used as cannon fodder.

The game is not consistent at all. And it is a mess of various time periods. The game has infantry with uniforms up to 1943 and since 1943 we have homeless people for an unknown reason they turned out to be engineers of the Red Army. Katyusha produced in 1941, but there is no KV as the main one, only as a commander.

About penal battalions / companies. The penal battalion is the officers who have committed some kind of mistake. From lieutenant to general. And even the penal companies were well armed and supplied. In one of the memoirs of the officer, the commander of the penal company (privates and sergeants) said that ordinary soldiers were jealous of how much food and weapons we had. Because Katitof told you right. From the middle of the war, many soldiers began to appear in the penal companies who were the Germans' collaborationists and they owned MG machine guns and there were a lot of them in the penal companies. The point is that one of the most difficult tasks was assigned to the penals, but the equipment was also matched to these tasks. There is no point in sending out weakly armed people and expecting a successful result from this.

ML20 smoke barrage should be No request Vet and No cost
And maybe could replace more shock troop by assault guards,too many Soviet commander have shock troop

Leave the Shock Troops where they are. Shock troops are the core of the Soviet infantry in this game unless you want to suffer.

But, which faction and most importantly what would they bring to the table?

They will give real one rifle for three, and not the mythical Red Army one rifle for three.

The one that slows units? It seems it causes a lot of unwanted side effects, I'm afraid. Same reason Deep Mud/Snow doesn't exist on maps anymore.

I think it's unlikely that's coming back, unless there's some way to make infantry path around it unless specifically instructed to go through it (And if it didn't affect retreating infantry).

Honestly, I don't see any problems here. Can the infantry fall into a German minefield when retreating? Easily. So it is with the barbed wire field. They will perform a similar function, preventing surprise attacks. The barbed wire field is easy to destroy with a mortar as well as a minefield.

I want to repeat my old idea. On the strangeness of Conscripts.So the Conscripts get the third level of veterancy and they are still Conscripts. Why don't they turn into veterans when they get their third veterancy? Or at least just Strelki(Rifleman)? Why, when the Conscripts receive the third veterancy, they can be transformed to Riflemen, their veterancy is reset to the first one, they get better accuracy characteristics, and so on. Get grenades instead of Molotov.