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Jump back to quoted post1 Sep 2014, 06:41 AMbutterfingers158

Not sure if serious.....

Maybe a small increase, but it doesn't have the performance to justify Panther pricing.

Jump back to quoted post31 Aug 2014, 19:56 PMThe_Courier

Panzershreck on basic infantry alone is pretty good scaling, and dismissing vet as a scaling mechanism is pretty silly, to put it mildly. All basic infantry is not very good at vet 0 and unvetted, that's how the game works. Volks still get a good grenade and even at vet 1 they already get pretty decent durability. Once they have some vet under their belt and a shreck all tanks save ISU and IS-2 fear them, and their massive received accuracy modifier makes them very resistant to all but the most powerful small arms once they hit upper vet echelons. I always get Volks every OKW game, and they always last to the end-game where they still are very useful. Volks scale incredibly well as it is.

Jump back to quoted post29 Aug 2014, 05:37 AMNapalm

I feel the need to get involved in this thread again.

The more I think about it I believe little can be done to Conscripts to make them scale late game the same way Volks, LMG Grens, and Rifle's do. Call it defeatist but until the game designers recognize there is a problem nothing will change.

With that being said I believe changing Penal's is the absolute way to go.
Remove their flame thrower and for a single DP-28 upgrade unlocked once a T3 or T4 building is up. I would envision that their damage profile would look an awful lot like my favorite infantry unit, the Panzerfussilers.

The Soviet's now have their all star mid-long range unit without having to change much else.

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2014, 12:18 PMKatitof

Exactly.
And you know why they talk about it so much?

Because it is the only thing that cons have over third reich ubermensch.
They realize that all other stats are either inferior or axis infantry can have it one way or another, so apparently merge is so op now that conscripts don't need anything, even if we have posts of top players saying they do need some love because they are unusable as infantry and for capping duty I can have CEs that can mine and actually fight with flamers.

But as you've said, according to them the merge is so awesome game changer, what early 251 ht must be? should be IWIN button with their kind of logic and believe me, it would be IWIN button if it was on allies side.

Jump back to quoted post27 Aug 2014, 09:55 AMsteel

Off topic but what you guys think of upgrading the Penals to Guards upon reaching vet 3 for a price. They will keep their SVT. I remember I read about a penal battalion soldier who was promoted to a Guards Colonel for bravery in the face of the enemy. Let me find the article on the man.