I'm glad whenever I see a penal battalion
This. (not that you can actually get a 1v1 as germans atm, but w/e...)
I so dearly want to build penals, but the opportunity never arises.
Mobile meat sacks with a big bomb... I dunno, the damage stats are impressive, but I don't remember penals ever doing that much. To be fair, I probably haven't even used them since beta, and I like to try different strategies... but i just can't find time for them, not at that price.
I think the whole "unsupressable suicide squad" thing sounds cool, but inevitably throws up balance issues.
I agree with a slight price reduction though, they're a glass cannon unit (like the rest of sov t1)