Penal Battalion Doctrine
RHS - Penal Battalion
[1CP]
Shtrafniki Squad - call a squad of penal soldiers ready to die for the Motherland. Cost: 270 manpower, 6 popcap
6 man armed with 5x default mosin nagant rifles and 1x ppd-34 submachine gun for the commissar. They can also throw F1 Frag Grenades and fire VPGS rifle grenades.
But once "One Last Effort" is unlocked. Newly deployed shtrafniks have improved armaments.
+ 6-man squad armed with 2x SVT-40 rifles and 2x ppsh-41 submachine guns and 1 pps-43 for the commissar.
+ New projectiles such as RGD-33 Bundled Grenades and RPG-43 antitank grenades.
Despite of these new weapons. They still proved to be unreliable on their own and has to be commanded carefully.
As these men are troublemakers, deserters, freethinkers, looters, malingerers,and politically un loyal.
[2CP]
Soviet Propaganda - Propaganda loudspeakers in outposts and in your headquarters will inspire your men to fight harder inside your territory. receiving defensive bonuses.
[2CP]
Penal Battalion - Soviet High command now grants you an entire battalion of shtrafniks. Infantry build times, reinforcement times, and cost is greatly reduced.
LHS - Penal Support
[1CP]
One Last Effort! - grants your shtrafniki squads with new weapons and abilities, and all infantry will now capture points faster and will be less prone to suppression.
[2CP]
Penal Squadron - call 3 ilyushin ground attack planes in order to strafe and drop bombs into the specified area. Cost: 125 munitions
Note: this is not like the air raid. It's not raining bomblets. Rather just like a strafing run and dropping one bombs each plane. [3CP]
Russian Colossus - call a KV-1 Heavy Tank into the battlefield.
