Ok, i see the point, but does it ok, that this upgraded has so much changes all together? Compared it with other doctrinal upgrades, and iirc none other doctrinal weapon upgrade changes the unit in so drastical way (except already discussed MP 40).
I don't say it's OP or UP, it just feels wrong to me in current situation.
I agree and I had point out that at the time.
Think this is a simple case of how one create an avalanche by choosing the wrong path and continuing down that path instead of reversing.
It all started with Penal, after they got patches they where utterly broken, instead of correcting what broke them (they crazy DPS boost) they decided to keep them and replace the flamer with PTRS, by then the PTRS Penals overlapped with both guards and PTRS Conscripts so instead of removing PTRS from Penals they buffed both Guards and PTRS conscripts so that there would be a reason to build them...