Who cares that the MP40 is worse than PPSHs? Don't go up against Shocks, the armor ignoring flamer Sturmpioneers are there to counter those. Volks MP40s do fine against US and UKF infantry and against Penals. It's not the best upgrade, but it's good enough on urban maps where lots of sight blockers help them close in.
I was talking about the MP-40 upgrade compared to the PPsh upgrade not shocks.
US/UKF/Penal will decimate VG that try to move close. Even if they manage to close in one can simply retreat.
The fragmentation grenade is great because people get lazy dodging OKW Volks grenades. Raw killing power is much better than a cover/garrison denial flame nade anyway because you have flamer Sturmpioneers to do that for them.
Now if the argument is that a grenade is great because people are too lazy to avoid it I will simply not dignified with an answer.
Flamer Sturmpioneers situational? Yes it is exactly the point of the commander that you use flamers on urban maps. Flamer Sturmpioneers dominate everything short of Rangers on urban maps. The high DPS and spread damage of their assault rifles synergize extremely well with the flamer.
Flamer SP will lose to 2 C.E. with flamers and unless you are spamming ST the impact is small. Even you do you will probably regret now having minesweepers.
How many unit will use these upgrade anyway, 1 flamer 2 MP40?
In the end of the day if the MP-40 is such a great upgrade why are you against replacing the MP-44s?
Flamer Hetzer is not situational, it's the thing that you use as a shock unit by rushing T4 through Battlegroup. With only 90 fuel it comes earlier than enemy medium tanks (that you can counter with some Rakettens) and it 1v1s anti tank guns or infantry with ease. Great against blobs and garrisoned/entrenched enemy defenses.
And will lose to a T-70. As sock unit it might work in 1vs1 but the effect diminish in larger MODs.
There are far better commander than this one, the commander is work mostly due to shock value and mostly in 1vsv1. Even Special op has good tools for urban maps.