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Meh, using them on mid-long range engagements makes them pretty bad compared to Volks as their DPS is not that much higher on those ranges and they lose 25% of it per dropped model as opposed to Volks who retain their highest DPS weapon untill the last two models. If you want mid range engagements you're better off with STG Volks, and for long range there's LMG Obers.

FSJ have nearly 300% the dps of volks k98s at all ranges including long range, and 40-50% more dps than volks stg44 at short and mid range(then 3x the dps at long range).

In addition, FSJ have 0.83 model size out the gate compared to volks with 1.0. This gives the FSJ squad an effective small arms durability of 385.5hp per squad vs volks with 400 (or grens with 351.6hp). point being they arent really all that squishy, only issue being the small squad size vs aoe.


They are excellent units to use in conjunction with Valiant assault as that 25% dps boost on top of their already impressive damage output means they will mow down an allied squad in seconds if the enemy isnt paying attention.



Edit: max range squad dps vet 0
FSJ-20
LMG42 Gren- 15.7
LMG34 Ober- 25.5
Stg44 Volks- 8.3
G43 Pfusilier- 11.6
Non ptrs Penal- 10.8
Double BAR rifle- 13

Note- rounded to nearest 10th

i just did... the M3A1 loses to the 221...

You are lying. The 221 actually struggles against a kubelwagen because the 221 lacks penetration while the kubelwagen actually has some.

Its actual damage output against infantry seems adequate but it has very poor durability for its cost and its gun has no penetrative capability which gets it wrecked by pretty much any other light vehicle. Give it a slight armor increase and bump its pen to like 1.2/1.5/1.8 so hnn it can at least defend itself against m3s.

Just because demos were primarily used against infantry does not mean they couldnt be used against light vehicles. Fairly sure if you had line of sight over your demo and the enemy drove a flametrack over it, you could pop the demo and one shot it- 200mp, 30fuel, 90 munition vehicle.

So with demo you needed to sweep both for infantry AND vehicles.

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Hey, I think the issue with giving cons any sort of anti infantry bonus is that almost anything we come up with is going to make penals redundant. However, I do think cons need to be changed so here is my thought-which is more of an overhaul to them than a simple buff:

Remove Penal Battalions from Tier 1.

Add Conscript upgrades to Tier 1, Superior training which includes molotovs and -5% received accuracy and Anti tank which includes at grenades and option to add a single PTRS(exclusive with PPSH).

Add retreat mechanic, whenever a conscript squad successfully "long distance retreats" with at least 2 members surviving, one member is removed and added to the penal pool-punishment for retreating.

When the penal pool reaches 6 members, a Penal battalion may be recruited from the headquarters. It costs 15 munitions to summon and comes equipped with a minesweeper. This squad cannot gain veterancy and can only reinforce by taking models from the penal pool. Penal battalions have the US version of Oorah with the move penalty after the sprint for 10 munitions.

Tank hunter doctrine auto equips Penal battalions with a single PTRS and AT grenade package instead of conscripts.



What does this all do?
-Well each time a conscript retreats, essentially one of the members is converted to being a slightly more damaging, less durable infantry model. This indirectly boosts conscript anti infantry power, and combined with the anti infantry durability upgrade should allow conscripts to scale that much more.
-It keeps penals as a distinct squad from conscripts, even if there is some role overlap, penal squad usage will be different due to their expend-ability and limited accessibility based on conscript retreats
-Keeps tier 1 important by moving upgrades there
-Maintains some soviet anti vehicle options by giving cons PTRS option but without sacrificing too much AI by only giving them 1
-Adds distinct soviet flavor