1-sturms have CAMO
2-sturms get additional ability with upgrade
3-sturms can become AT or AI, you're not forced to have them do one thing out of the gate, you can adapt.
4-sturms have 0.7 rec acc modofier(higher then pgrens), partisans don't.
5-sturms can replace grens as mainline infantry, partisans can't.
6-all partisan weapons are WORSE on them then on other units, why do you believe their STGs will be same as PG ones?
I heard somewhere that if you upgrade them with 2 Brens and THEN go anvil and upgrade them to heavy engineers they end up with 2 Brens and a Vickers - has anyone seen this happen?
I used them in alpha with tripple vickers.
They still sucked and could barely win against single LMG grens, both squads out of cover, REs had 5 men upgrade, no rnade was used.
Personally I think all UK tanks should get HP reductions + armor reduction, since it takes way too long to kill a british tank. Even a KT doesn't last that long...
You're right, KT lasts longer and packs huge firepower on top of it.
You forgot low dps even with that free vickers and complete combat invalidity because of low combat movement speed.
You're basically get them to baby sit emplacements and repair tanks, they have no valid combat use outside of sitting in emplacements and defending them from single AT infantry rushes.