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Jump back to quoted post26 Aug 2014, 07:14 AMJaigen

In what way is it weak? it has the highest burst damage of any of the mg's and you are basically guaranteed a model loss if the 50 call starts firing. is it weak in suppression? nope its the highest suppressor in the game with the largest aoe. mobility ? fuck that its even more mobile then then the maxim. durability? same as the mg 42 or 34 and their is talk to nerf the maxim to 4 man.

the 50 cal is superior to the mg42 or mg34 by a mile. anybody saying this unit is weak is simply nuts.

Jump back to quoted post26 Aug 2014, 07:33 AMGreeb

Making penals cheaper and keeping their stats will make then very alike to conscripts. Precisely the thing no one wants.

Conscripts and penals are early-game infantry, so they can't be buffed because that would cause a great imbalance afterwards.

The solution should be playing with their roles, making one a CQC unit (conscripts) and the other a support mid-long range unit (penals). The issue there is that in that case penal's background goes to the trash, as they should be a powerful suicide unit being always in the frontline.

Inverting roles (cons = mid range, penals = short range) would destroy grens/conscripts balance.

The worst solution is keeping both units effective only at short range, as they are now.

I personally prefer having penals like they were before. A mid range unit, but with flamethrowers for CQC and satchels to go rambo against enemy emplacements to keep their suicide-missions flavour. They should have their price increased at 300 mp or such.

Cons will keep being shit, but having penals doing damage from afar will balance the early infantry engagements.