I still don't understand why they decided to change armour into received accurancy on all units but shocks. It rewards blobbing so much. I mean their calculations are true only when the unit is shot by gun with 1 penetration. But if it was armour all HMGs apart from maxim (maxim too but very little) would benefit from their penetration, I mean thar DShK, .50 cal and MG42 are underperforming right now because of that (they have penetration they cannot use against infantry) and that is the true reason why we can see all the blob play from all factions right now.
Machine gun penetration came
after infantry armour was removed. On
March 25th, Received Accuracy replaced Infantry Armour on all units except Shock Troops (who literally do have armour plates on them, if you look closely). One month later on
April 24th, Machine Guns were given higher armour penetration values over regular weapons. MG Penetration never had any effect on Infantry Armour except Shock Troops and for a brief time, Obersoldaten and Jaeger Light Infantry, who still had armour values by mistake.