Never understood why Penals occupy the spot they do, in my opinion they should be dirt cheap screens with the demo ability and nothing else.
The changes being made to them confuses me even more, why does it make sense to have a penal squad equipped and outfitted with more kit and firepower than a squad of conscripts (your baseline infantry)?
Just for flavor and fun i think it would be neat to add in frontovik squads where penals were and give them the exact same profile (weapons, damage, vet, upgrades) while making the penals squad an extremely cheap and under equipped scout/screen/demo unit that comes in at tier 0.
Thoughts?
with the current implementation you can use cons as fire team (mid range) and ppsh penals as assault team (close range) which leads to a very nice dynamic and gameplay