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I say replace current Penals with Strelkovy, make a different unit for Penals (maybe not the way I said, but something new, hell make a Penals doctrine, IL-2's that can do bombing runs during snowstorms or someshit).

Why isn't there a thread to vent fantasy ideas, I could use that

The Stug IIIe should be the SU76 counterpart. If you rely on infantry heavy tactics and you need to clear guns or emplacements, this should be the go to vehicle.

I thought the StuG III G was supposed to be the counterpart to the SU-76? Unless you're suggesting upping penetration and giving free barrage to the E, I can't see how it could really serve as a 'counterpart' when it doesn't do anything in common.

Relic unit designers = bunch of Michael Wittmann's fan-boys.

Hahaha!

Clearly, that's exactly why the MG 42 was useless for quite awhile, the reason Ost weapon crews are all 5x more vulnerable than their Soviet counterparts, and the reason Soviet is considered overall better and dominates the leaderboards. One overpowered unit that happens to be on the German's team doesn't mean Relic are Nazis, that's ridiculous. It's like calling them Communists because Conscripts are better than Ostruppen or because Penal Troops are better than Grenadiers.

I don't remember anyone accusing Relic of being Nazi fanboys back when Panzer Elite wiped the floor with the Americans early-game, or when the King Tiger and Jagdpanther were introduced. Hell, CoH1 had literal ubermensch, Knights Cross Holders were the strongest infantry in the game, one squad could take on a Rifle Squad and come out with no casualties, they even took 2 sniper shots to kill, per man. And Stormtroopers with 2x StG 44 upgrade were even stronger, virtually unstoppable by infantry, anything that wasn't armoured melted before their eyes. CoH1 was a game where the unfit for service Volksgrenadiers were better fighters than the American's Elite Airborne division! Nobody cried Nazi bias over that.

I could go on but I'll stop here. This kind of shit is ridiculous though. They shouldn't be afraid to balance the game fairly and be called Nazis for it because Soviet players are mad that they can't just Red Tide everything and win.

Not everyone want play consript spam. For me consrpts dont scale well. No weapon upgrade and weak armor. Grens with G43 rape them as no tomorow. In team games i use them only for merge and pick up OH superior support weapons. Penals was very good, but now the same.
Shock troops are very viable now versus pay2win OH commander and his insta vet.

Then they should make T1 more viable or improve the Cons in some way. T1 is pretty solid, I just personally don't like it because without the ZiS, you're seriously open to German Armoured attacks. T1 gives no AT, and doctrines only offer soft AT solutions.

Thank you, someone who actually reads into things.

Anyway back on topic. Correct me if I'm wrong (Waiting for Nullist to jump in here or someone with good knowledge of the game statistics and tables.) but do grenadiers have a better chance of hitting targets than Penals? This would explain the apparent "ineffectiveness" of the SVT against G43s. Or are the damage tables for both guns radically different?

I'm not Nullist, but I'll do it. Grenadiers are much more accurate with their Kar 98's (65%/35%) and G43's (65%/80%) than Penals are with their SVT's (47%/26%).

I love these ideas about having a Soviet squad armed with just sticks. I'd want to go back in time and see the Russian Rage Reviews (TM) after the game was released and see footage of unarmed squads being thrown at MG-42s in MP games whilst Conscripts flank them.

I'm talking about just Penal Troops. I'm well aware that the "unarmed Russians charge into battle" was just an act of severe desperation during the Battle of Stalingrad. Penals on the other hand were just prisoners plucked from Gulags, rounded into a group, charged at enemy positions, then the survivors were put into another group and charged again. Sometimes they held sticks to make them look like Soldiers, and in winter they wore the darkest uniforms so the Germans would fire at them first and not the Red Army men nearby.