This might be less attractibe due to not getting an officer out of it.
Yet the the buildings are cheaper than the officer unlock and it does not block you production pipe.
Do you really want to deal with a penals + zis without having the side-tech cost to slow t-70?
With the airborne commander this also means dshka, ppsh penals...
Penal are badly designed and airdropped SVT even worse designed but lets not go there.
Where do people spam maxims? I havent seen that in ages. And why does t2 give the atgun first? Would be overkill vs the kubel.
Point is to delay the maxim, what would like to be first available the mortar?
Making a zis to counter a kubel does not really sould liek a good idea...
The clowncar has a very very short window of effectivness, why delay it? Its not uncounterable at all.
because it is completely cheesy vs OKW
Also people need to stop going back to the golden days of maxim spam. One big factor back then was its mobility. Wich has been nerfed since quite a bit along with its supression.
The problem was that it could be used instead of mainline infatry. If it buffed again and it is available from the start it might become be possible to be spammed again.