and you fail to understand how the whole thing works... its small arms + aoe that guarantees wipes on maxims
and yet you again fail to understand the relevance of the deathloop.....
stop being biased and play the soviets for once... all comments youve made so far only prove how you barely even touched the soviet faction let alone
i have an idea... how about playing the soviets before commenting about soviet balance?
What hoshi is trying to say I think, is that if you have a maxim and an mg42 squad, and both take 320 damage, the maxim is better off. (because... the MG42 crew only has 320hp total...)
And if they both lose three models, deathloop or not, retreat or not, the mg42 will drop on the next crew death while the maxim won't.
This would be a different story if the maxim and MG42 crew models themselves had different durability but they dont.
I would like to add just as a side note and observation that soviets recrewing weapon teams with penals is absolutely hilarious as the mg crew members will now out-dps many units attempting to flank it. I often use my recrewed mgs as soviets very aggressively for the huge amount of additional dps the crew provides.