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Any possibility of penals also getting 7th man?

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lmao

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1 Jul 2022, 00:07 AMDedoStorm

Any possibility of penals also getting 7th man?

Next to zero possibility. 7-man cons exist because the penal meta was massively dominating and cons were terrible, but then they had to nerf 7-man cons repeatedly because they were too good. Historically, an extra model for a squad in this game has caused many problems - 5 man grens (nerfed heavily and no one really uses them anymore) and 6 man fusiliers (complained about at least once a week).

As it stands, penals got some vet reworks to make them scale better into the late game (converted some offensive vet into reduced received accuracy - better this way as dead models can't shoot).

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I still think the 7th person is a bad decision, I prefer the weapon upgrade to the 7th person.

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7 Jul 2022, 16:16 PMCrecer13

I still think the 7th person is a bad decision, I prefer the weapon upgrade to the 7th person.

SVT yes, PPsH not really.

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7 Jul 2022, 16:17 PMBasedSecretary

SVT yes, PPsH not really.

Even one DP-27 allows the Conscripts to deal pretty good damage.

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7 Jul 2022, 16:22 PMCrecer13

Even one DP-27 allows the Conscripts to deal pretty good damage.

That too, yes.

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Yes please increase conscripts to 8 men

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?..The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and... the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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I'm still mad over the decision to NOT make Osstruppen as a Conscript clone with a merge mechanic given the fact that Wehrmacht hardpressed a lot of foreign people and made them into cheap line troops.

There is even a story of Americans liberating a POW camp (more literally, allowing the Nazis to give them the guys) and finding an inmate that fought in the Red Army, getting then sent to a Penal Battalion, losing the charge and getting arrested by the Nazis, then getting pressed in Luftwaffe as a mechanic, getting arrested again and getting sent to a german type penal battalion only to get pressed again and fight with the Waffen-SS.

I think the story is on the Cornelius Ryan trilogy.

Crazy stuff.

Anyway, such a change would open the OST game to more than the standard 2 mg 2 grens 1 mort -> 222.