i don't think the flame buff applies to infantry hand-held. plus the flame damage got reduced where u cannot crit models now. This makes clown car rushing+flamer penals less effective. tech cost changes do make t1 cheaper though.
DOT effect will not apply to infantry flamers RMMLZ.
Reduce the cost and people are going to use them a lot, which will bring about spam whine, improve them and make them cost slightly more and people will be upset. In other words, they should get a change but there will be the ardent few who RAAAFFFFFUSSSEEEEEEE.
Didn't know that, thanks. And I'm happy that clown car cheese is getting a nerf. About Penals, I still think they need a buff because Soviets don't have good infantry options, specially long range infantry which scales well later in the game. Maybe give them DP-28 upgrade? Or maybe a mid/close range damage buff with increased reinforcement cost to prevent spamming.
And one more thing, you can't keep everbody happy that's for sure.