premium squads =/= premium account.
and i can guarantee you, 5 people with STG45M dies just as easly as 9 man mosin.
if you know how to shoot, they die.
and a weapon does not give you skills.
you have no idea how many people with premium dies.
so… my point still stands.
Fun fact:
As long as you’re the first one who shoots and hits,
You stand very good chances of taking down the whole 5 men STG squad without even needing to reload your Mosin.
Having 10 squads does not increase my playing skills. This gives me the flexibility to adapt to battlefield conditions.
Flexibility that can be achieved by having three infantry squads with different soldiers. And I see that f2p players only have 3 assault squads where there are 4 soldiers equipped with SMGs, no engineer, no radio operator, no sniper.
And you can make yourself three full infantry squads with engineers, radio operators, machine gunners. You just have to want to think about how to choose the right classes for the team.
Weapon does give advantage though, I don’t see that many sweat using bolties in Berlin and you know why is that
there are some.
and nothing that counter parts from the tech tree are better if not on par.
outside few exception.
such as the RD44, mg45, early mg42. etc.
( the minority )
Damn …you must had a lot of spare time if you could do all that 
not at all.
i usually played 2 to 4 hours almost everyday.
just made use of the boosters and the current overplayed team for easier score.
outside of normandy and moscow.
those i played despite the enemy having more players and i got stucked with bots.
but that’s also a good way to earn. as long you are always first in the squad.
( not to mention, i played since the game was in alpha 
… even though stable progression came in OBT. around 1 year if not mistaken. )
Ahh that makes sense
I started playing around 2021, started to grind normandy and moscow stimultaneously and tunisia once it came out, but i got burnt out - focusing on moscow and normandy for now.
Didnt feel rewarding to try and come on top on a team that didnt try, and xp gained back didnt feel rewarding
So i got the premium, im at the end of Moscow and Normandy - got a couple of levels left on each
Its not like you asked but gotta share my experience 
Gentlemen, please, accept my apologies.
I think I put too much coganc in my coffee. My mistake.