Anyone else sees them as useless and a total waste of both mu and mp?
They come in late at 2CP.
They cost a lot to reinforce, but their armor is barely higher than conscripts.
Their DPS is the same as a regular grenadier squad, are you serious?
They are useless shit until you upgrade them with a 75mu lmg.
Their button is useless too, costing 40 mu on top of needing the lmg upgrade ?????
Their grenade costs 45mu but does near no damage, and no damage at all in buildings.
They aren't strong enough to kill a luchs alone and they cost 330mp ?
They can barely kill a 222 now.
You want penals to have some use, but what about guards infantry?
Even conscripts with ptrs is a better use of mp/mu.
2CP - You mean like almost every other Call-in Infantry (Ostruppen and Ass Grens aside?)
Of course they cost more to reenforce - they are elite infantry. Why get Cons if they would cost the same upkeep? Only Shock Troopers and Heavy Engineers have Armor... I don't know what you mean.
Cost is about more than DPS - you're paying for their utility of having Upgrades, Stock Grenades, and Light AT - you could say the same thing about Grens being useless without LMG42. The grenades are awesome, if you whiff in a building its because you didn't throw it at the windows with models in them.
If you think they should be able to solo a Luchs then you are SEVERELY delusional about their role. They are to deter light vehicles alone (2+ Guards will quickly force off a Luches though)

@ Cons PTRS
Its very difficult to use them as replacement mainline infantry due to cost (just like OKW can't spam Falls or OST can't spam PZ Grens). It's all about using them correctly - they are rather good now after they fixed Veterancy.