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Anyone who says that Penals are Soviet Obersoldaten should try to play them this way in a 1v1 game.

Soviets have two choices: use weak Conscripts as main line infantry or Penals. Conscripts suck without T2 or PPSH and need fuel for things OKW and Ost get for free (Flame/Rifle Nade and Panzerfausts). Also Conscripts feel like they do no damage at all other than in close combat (where they drop while charging).

Penals on the other hand can fight on all ranges (while still doing A LOT damage in close), BUT they come with a cost that isn't measured in manpower. First you need to build T1 with your Pios (which takes longer to build than the OST T1) and you have to decide whether you build a Conscript squad first in order to maintain field presence OR wait for T1 to be finished.

If you get Conscripts, you have to wait about half a minute until you can PRODUCE the first Penals. In this case the OKW player has usually 2 Volks squads and the Ost Player 1 Gren and the MG.

If you do not get Conscripts, you can produce the Penals immediately after T1 is finished but then you have NO combat unit on the field until they arrive (between 1 min and 1:30).

If you do use T1 and Penals you also have to keep in mind that you cannot do shit against armor. PTRS penals are shit versus inf and as you do not get any MGs caused by skipping T2 you cannot do anything against massed enemy infantry once PTRS have been researched.

The Penal PTRS is something like an Anti Vehicle MG. They can keep light vehicles such as Flak HTs and Luchs' at bay but no decent player will lose a vehicle to them if paying enough attention. The sticky satchel has a range of about a meter, its for flanking tanks that hit a mine, or for out of sight advances. Penals have no Urrah so don't plan on chasing a functional vehicle.

Sovs needed something in order to make T1 a bit appealing, so they received the PTRS package as a last resort to be able to do anything in the light vehicle meta. Once light Axis vehicles appear, the T1 Soviet player has to play clearly better than his enemy until tanks appear.

Yes, the actual range of the ability and the one shown on minimap is almost twice as big. That should be look into in next future changes.

I'm not sure if I am right but I read something that the circle on the map is the indicator of the area where planes start tracking stuff. So if a plane "locked on" on of your tanks and you move said tanks outside the red circle, the plane will still bomb the crap out of them.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It is better this way rather than Relic's Classic Triple Nerf Into Oblivion™

Exactly...

Relic: *Increases cost extremely*
People in the forums: "Omg JLI are dead, never gonna play them again!"

Relic: *Increases cost slightly*
People in the forums: "Omg JLI won't be different now, game is dead."

It doesn't matter what Relic does, people seem to be pissed 24/7.
IMO a slight change was a good start.
Because Relic usually overbuffs/overnerfs.

All at granades should be like this something like 80% chance to hit

Na, I don't see a reason why this should be a thing.
All medium and heavies take one AT nade hit without any consequences (besides a small loss of HP). If the player manages to eat two or get hit by any other AT before they just misplayed and get punished.

Point 2) Agree 1000%.

Every other faction has it, why not UKF. No, they are not so different from the other factions to justify this.

Still each mainline inf has AT nades behind a requirement.

Sovs pay fuel and manpower without getting a reward besides the nades
Ostheer pays fuel and manpower and gets T2 (but pays more than UKF for T2)
OKW needs a Truck
USF needs Vet 1

I don't see the point why Sappers are not suitable for the AT nades. UKF is usually the first army to tech to T2 (mostly on par with Ost skipping T1) and at this time, there is no need for AT nades. The only German vehicle at that moment of time is a Kübelwagen that can be taken out by small arms fire.