They are pretty commonly see on the battlefield to be elite right now.
And that's the thing. They are already common so why make them even more common? Why would you ever use Penals or Cons if you can spam maxims and then spam guards?
Why would you compare Para's and Rangers to Guards?
Maybe the soviets have a different tool (or set of tools) to fill the rolls that these other units fill?
Comparing 2 units in a vacuum ignores way too many aspects of the game.
Becasue they are supposed to be elite, like Rangers or Pars, not main line infnatry (maybe not in terms of raw power but you should feel "elitness")
With cheaper (and weaker) Guards, maxim spam into Guards with Motor Guard will be a thing for 99% games (unless you want to stay fancy and use Cons but why would you?)
Also Maxims too, until they get eventually nerfed.
Guards (with coming nerfs) are hardly elite when compere to Obers, Paras, Rangers or even PzGrens.
Personally, for me it's more obvious to give them a buff but increase call-in cost and reinforce to make them powerful, expensive and elite to encourge to use Penals/Cons instead of making them semi-main line infantry.
It is WBP 1.9 while I'd like to see official notes as I don't know how many changes will be implemented (all of them from 1.9? Or maybe with some small changes etc etc)
The community has to choose between one of the following:
- Getting the WBP now (with potential untested game-breaking bugs)
- Letting us do our job testing the patch, and then, release it when it's ready