I know this is beating a dead horse at this point, but these guns are terrible for BR4/5. So much so it feels like a waste to bring anything but the flamethrowers (which I personally never use).
If this squad is going to stay at BR4, it needs better weapons. I don’t care if the flamethrower count has to be nerfed to do it.
Primary weapon: The BSA Welgun, M1A1, and Type 100 rifle squads are all at BR2. The OG-43 is like a BR 1.5 weapon. Considering that this gun was designed to use the same magazines as the Beretta M38, it should be given the 40 round magazines. 20 rounds of 9mm is useless at this BR where most people run vitality.
ZB-26: In the tech tree this gun is somehow T3 along with the BAR and MG-34. It needs a buff, but for the paratroopers they should instead have the MG-42.
GrB 39: not good. Panzerfaust 60.
Carcano M91 Scoped: Obviously this thing is garbage but I rather like it as their only other Italian weapon and hope it just gets buffed. T3, but it’s actually the worst sniper rifle in the game. It should have reduced damage fall off at range like other sniper rifles and dramatically increased rate of fire (currently 33).
This squad is indeed way overtiered at BR IV, but I think adjustments should aim to let it be lowered to BR II like its British equivalent (Welgun squad), so every faction will have a low BR para squad available.
If those flamethrowers are (arguably) too OP to be any lower than BR IV, the solution is very simple, just remove them from the crate in low BR battles. Or, decrease their number from 6 to 2 or 3.
Other than that, yes, in high BR matches the squad needs better weapons for their other loadout options.
In the dedicated news thread, this topic got more likes than the actual news, so I hope those in charge will consider it (once holidays are over).
Also, I’m worried that if they gave to the OG-43 a 40 rds mag, the overall ammo count could be nerfed. Currently it’s 140 RDS (20+120), with larger mag it would inevitably need to be either buffed to 160 (40+120) or nerfed to 120 (40+80).
At this point, I think that nearly everyone would be happy to give up the flamethrowers altogether (they aren’t that useful). It’s better for axis to have a low BR paratooper squad than to have crappy flamethrowers in a high BR squad.
I regret grinding that event to get that squad. Haven’t really used it that much prenerfs since flamethrowers are really overrated and you would get way more kills just by using mp40.
The squad itself is cool, but that horrific bait idea of giving them flamethrowers for no good reason whatsoever is just ridiculous.
They just wanted to artificially change faction bias in that campaign.
What surprise axis immediately after that received 2 very good carcano semis and allies nothing.
I personally don’t care about the balance of any paratrooper squads, they are event rewards anyway, not squads on the tech tree, just don’t use them
Like my FW-189 has been gathering dust in a warehouse for a year and a half
Fun fact, event paras usually have worse things in paraboxes than its premium counterparts.
The event soviets have the AT rifle/madsen in the low BR queue, meanwhile the premium ones have the Pfaust 60/DT in the exactly same queue.
Premium ones are made shamelessly and purposely better.
