How can you say that pgrens can cover the same role as sturms? Can pgrens run over mid VP 30mins into the game when its 90% katied, panzerwerfed, land matressed and is one big pile of medium cover? No? Then they are not able to ambush squad after squad after squad.
I posted a replay of Helping Hans on just how useful the sturms are in another post and will do so here to underline my opinion.
"If you have time, educate yourself and watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdVrJ2xyK8. 27:55 is good to shwo their lethality. They dismantle the AT crew in seconds.
33:25 absolutely annihilating that conscript squad close range.
Its a replay by Helping Hans in which he uses Stormtroopers hunting down 2+ snipers, several retreating and normal squads and made them ultaimte terminators."
I dont see how pgrens could walk up to repairing engineers close to the enemy base, to snipers or set up an ambush with flame nades + high DPS.
Fact is decently skilled enemies will retreat their mainline infantry 1v1 vs vet 3 pgrens when they see them coming. You dont see sturms coming and that makes them extremely deadly.
Fact is pgrens are for flanking when mainline engaged to force the enemy mainline off.
Sturms are supposed to be deep behind enemy lines, wiping repairing engineers, mainline infantry coming back on the field, hunting snipers, setting booby traps (!) and to give vision for call ins. If you see a pgrens close to your ambulance and you hear a stuka sound, you sure as hell will know that your shit got reconed. With sturms you dont even know that they are there. Pgrens cant do any of this.
In general units like repairing engineers are too far away from the action for pgrens to get to them and snipers just retreat when seeing pgrens waltzing up to them.