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I cant agree that buffed penals with semi auto and flamers would be op just like rifles.
First of all, rifles did not force you for certain tech.
Secondly, utility. Pineapple, at nades, smoke vs satchel.
Thirdly BARs. What made rifles op, was combination of BAR and flamer.

In other words, Rifles where good against everything. Great AI and decent AT, plus support of Ltn or Cap, whatever suits.

Penals dont have such luxory.

I completly agree with above.
No brainer AT.

You don't have to make any tech decisions, like "do I need handheld AT or maybe faster tech?" "Do I need weapon racks or ambulance or captain right now"? "Do I need Pak40 or PzGrens?" Do I need fast ZiS gun or maybe I can get another maxim before Luchs hits the field?" etc etc.

Even for PzGrens it's not that easy. You have to choose if you want great AI squad or great AT squad, plus you hardly can blob them effectivly.

Superior handheld AT on a most basic squad with no tech decisions is just really, really bad design.

Not to mention their utility. They are hard AT, they can clear garrisons, they don't lose AI power after schreck upgrade, they get insanely fast vet 5, they can deal with CC units thanks to infiltrations nades. In other words, quite often you can win game just by Volks.

Now try to win game just with Cons or Tommies, Grens or even Rifles.

I have epic screen during trol 4v4 game with 9 volks and 600+ fuel float or so
Sure, it was 4v4 but even in 4v4 you can't win by using 9 Cons or 9 Grens.

Good bye 3x7% molo range, 3x4% KV1 armor, 3x3% KV2 reload, 3x3% B4 reduced scatter

They are not. i would say that the okw and the usf are now at the same level in their ability to clear buildings.

OKW: free incendiary nades, powerful CC units at the beginning, insanely cheap infiltration nades.
USF: no free nades, no CC unit since the beginning.

How they are on the same level?

And UKF? They are in a worse spot than OKW. All you have is WASP upgrade which is kinda pointless and inferior to any other flamer upgrade in game.