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Penals Adjustment

Currently, Penals are extremely situational and don't scale very well into late-game. While they are effective against infantry in cover and especially strong against garrisoned infantry, they need to close in to be effective, causing them to drop models, losing DPS and creating MP bleed.

In this adjustment, I suggest improving their firepower at near, mid and long range by 1.5%, 50%, and 108%, respectively. To reduce the bleed of veteran squads, their received accuracy buff at Vet 3 is also improved. Finally, their cost is adjusted to compensate for their improved performance.

Now, Penals fulfill a medium-to-long range fire support role. They will be able to best any early-game Axis infantry, and can keep up with them in late-game via upgrades and veterancy. However, they are much more fragile than their counterparts, making them a glass-cannon infantry unit. They synergize better with Conscripts—Penals provide fire support from long range behind cover while Conscripts (possibly upgraded with PPsH-41 SMGs) flank with the help of Oorah! and can also act as a meat shield. Guards remain viable due to their ability to shut down light vehicle play and snare vehicles, while Shocks remain viable due to their durability and close-range prowess. Alternatively Penals can also take the place of Soviet elite infantry in commanders where there are none. They retain their bunker-busting capabilities via their Satchel ability.

Changelog

Penal Battalion
-Cost increased from 270MP to 300MP.
-Reinforce cost increased from 22MP to 27MP.
-Population increased from 7 to 8.
-SVT accuracy increased from 0.69/0.46/0.288 to 0.7/0.69/0.6.
-SVT DPS increased from 6.207/2.166/0.778 to 6.3/3.249/1.618
-Veterancy Rank 3 received accuracy buff decreased from -23% to -29%.

Feel free to try them out in the workshop. Feedback is welcome.

Edit: Is giving them 6 PPsH-41s for 90MU a viable replacement for their Flamer upgrade?

How do you change this? I've looked under ebps cost_ext, and sbps squad_reinforce_ext, but so far have found nothing.
Thanks in advance.

dps on the AEC's coaxial:
17.0837/ 17.0837/ 17.0837/ 15.2829/ 13.7990/ 12.6699/ 11.6382/ 10.5160


it's quite strong actually. About as powerful as the hull and coaxial on the panzer 4 combined.

That's about the DPS of two Grenadier LMG42s, no?

Cons actually do get more DPS as they vet up, it's just that they don't scale like the other core infantry because they lack the firepower of upgraded units.
Penals... dual flamer for 90 Muni?

One thing we're working on at the moment is a game mode that replaces Annihilation and Victory Points as our default game mode. Instead of three or more Victory Points to control on the map, every sector is valuable and slowly trickles in points for your team if you hold it. The first team to reach 1,000 points wins. However suffering casualties eats away at your team's points, so you'll need to balance the need to control the map with not losing too much manpower. If a team reaches 0 points from casualties, they lose. This makes bleeding your opponent dry a viable strategy, or at least a way to even the score if you fall behind in securing territory.

The penalty for casualties is equal to a percentage of that unit's cost, so losing a single Shtrafniki is barely noticeable but a lost Tiger II is a huge setback. And of course what you allocate to your Battlegroup is the entirety of what you have to play with; if that schwerer Panzer-Zug (Heavy Tank Platoon) you added to your Battlegroup only had a single Tiger II, you won't be getting another one that match.

Once we've got that mode working nicely, we'll also consider spicing it up with special sector types and timed objectives that pop-up across the map.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that you start off with a couple hundred points, so early casualties don't immediately end the game. The exact amount is something we'll have to tune, so that you can afford to be a little aggressive at the beginning but not overly reckless

Sounds a bit like the mechanics in Wargame: Red Dragon.

Great work so far, anyways! Loving the sidescraping!