Germany’s continuous ATR is a BP weapon. This means that novice German players can only use Pzb38 Pzb39 with one fire and one reload.
And in the case where Pzb38/39’s penetration performance and damage is not so good, it is very difficult to against with American and Soviet BR1 tanks.
and even more impossible to fight against BR2 Tanks like
T-28E，T-50 ，Valentine , M-3Medium ，MK1 “grant”，MK3 Lee，M8 Scott, M24Chaffee，A.C.I , Mathilda
The penetration of Strumpistole is 70mm, which has a longer loading time and lower penetration compared to other countries’ BR2 anti tank grenade launchers, and there is no advantage in using Strumpistole compared to GRB39 in BR2.
Providing Strumpistole to novice players as a self-protection option against tanks will not ruin BR1’s balance.Because German novices do lack ATR that can truly harm enemy tanks, too many novices are causing enemy tanks to rampage through crowds due to Pzb38/39’s weakness.
In summary, I believe that moving Strumpistole to BR1 is a good change that is beneficial for novice players to avoid being slaughtered by veteran players using tanks
There is one: you can run with the sturmpistole. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the only “ATR” that can be ran with. But 70mm of pen still puts it above the Boys (30mm), PTRS (45mm) and Type 97 or whatever it’s called (55mm).
I would much rather they increased the rpm of the PZB to be more in line with the PTRD or Boys.
The Dev’s gave the Germans a decent BR1 BP anti tank weapon, then screwed the players by forcing them to lay down when shooting it 
. It’s too heavy to be fired standing by a German Soldier, yet the Japanese can fire their Type 97 anti tank weapon which weighs “OVER TWICE” as much standing up. 
Not a lot of common sense exists within the Dev community.
Mind you that Sturmpistole has the slowest reload speed of all AT guns in the game. It takes 6 secs to load new round. That’s why it belongs to BR1.
It’s obvious that Japanese soldiers are undercover superheroes and saving Japan from monsters and Enlisted job as JP soldiers is just a side gig.
While Germans are just weaklings that can’t even handle recoil of Beretta m38/42 without spraying all over target.
You can run with the PIAT as well surprisingly.
As for the suggestion, Im not instant against it, but even a slight nerf to 60mm pen might be in order. Purely due to the long reload.
I mean I will still be using ATR’s at BR1 for larp reasons, also its funny to use it as a sniper.
And PZB has slowest bolt speed of any weapon in game. If they buff both by 50% I think they will be fine to stay in their respective tiers. I just think 70mm or even 60mm of penetration is just too much for BR I when it’s equivalents can only do 45mm or 30mm.
I thought I was forgetting one. I just don’t use the PIAT a lot. I would play more as BR II Commonwealth and Italians more - if BR II teammates weren’t useless.
It’d have to be more like 55mm of pen to fit in line with the Solothurn. I still believe all AT rifles should do no less pen than 45mm, that way the PZB, PTRS and Boys are all on even ground (minus bolt speed).