Profile of miragefla

I mean they can't even throw a satchel at one pg squad

Penals honestly shouldn't be throwing a short-range satchel against an assault unit that excels at killing enemy infantry.

They're in this weird role of being long-ranged infantry, but they have a flamethrower on top of being both expensive and squishy.

I feel tanks and armour are less durable. While ATGs may not be as potent, armour combat ends much more quickly as a lot of dedicated AT weapons/guns tend to do 160 damage and most medium vehicles have 640 health. I'm pretty sure back in vCoH, Shermans and Panzer IVs did far less. I think about 80 damage. Also you have range increases for the more dedicated anti-armour vehicles allowing them to hit further than their vCoH counterparts.

Infantry are more durable to small-arms, but not to the extent of Vet 3 Grenadiers from vCoH who could retreat past a groups of infantry, not caring what's shooting at them unless they were Vet 3 rifles.

For the past while I've been experimenting with sniper first builds with some moderate success, though it also depends on the Soviets not getting T1 to counter-snipe him before he gets to vet 1.

While he can constantly backpedal/jump into cover away from danger to keep a constant manpower drain on the Soviets without taking manpower damage in return, I think his health is too low. From what I've heard he has 2.0 armour and 40hp, however, this would make his survivability very RNG dependant against small-arms. Sometimes he gets away during retreat/soft retreat/into cover unscathed, other times his health bar just disappears because someone gets good rolls against him and his armour fails. More than once I've had a lucky PPSH burst get him at max range when I thought I could jump to the next piece of cover/back-up, the resulting burst taking around 2/3rds of his hp from what I've seen.

Furthermore, this would make him incredibly vulnerable to any explosion/flame/AOE that comes near him. I've had him get killed on the very edge of a mortar explosion at full(Precision/120mm Maybe?). Regular infantry can stand in the incendiary barrages for a few seconds before catching on fire, long enough for a retreat but he just disappears if he even steps in it.

I honestly think he should have the same amount of hitpoints like any other infantry man even if it costs him his 2.0 armour so his survivability is a bit more consistent rather than praying that the next bullets doesn't take out 1/3rd of his life when he's running to the nearest piece of cover. He's already 360MP so he could at least not die/consistently take damage from the closest thing that grazes him.

I dunno,sometimes it takes 5-6 shots to kill a man too.

I think cover may help. I know when my troops run out of cover the T-34, when standing still tends to take 1-2 men per shot. And there's always RNG.

The only T-34 I have a problem with when it comes to infantry killing is the T-34/85. That thing just butchers squads and forces retreats. Has pretty good AoE for also being the mobile counter to German T3 armour.