Running a 1944-era Volksgrenadierkompanie

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[TheVolskinator]

A BotB-era VG company called for 2x 'assault' platoons ea. with
 -2x VG squads armed with nothing but StG 44s or M.P. 40s
 -1x MG squad with 2x le M.G. 42s

and one boring normal platoon with 3x one-LMG-and-the-rest-use-rifles squads.

Boring history lesson over! Now for the actual question:

Scoped MP44s or MP40s for my cute wittle Folksgrenadiere? The MP40s are cheaper, yes, but I find that VGs tend to get eaten alive by pretty much everything as they close to midrange where the MP40 starts to actually dole out respectable damage. Add to that the need to use medkits to keep the VGs from quickly dropping bodies, and I find myself running into a problem: Riflemen love grenades, and a medkit-using VG squad tends to get fragged with little to show for their efforts.

On the flip side, the scoped MP44s are 10 MU more expensive than MP40s, but enjoy the following benefits:
-overall better DPS over all ranges than the BAR, while also on a squad with very respectable max range firepower (VGs)
-0.45 accuracy at long range (most normal rifles, barring Lee-Enfields and Gren K98ks, have 0.35; the BAR has 0.2)
-MP44 target tables--this means that all special armor types are pretty much treated as infantry armor--so no 0.75 dmg/acc mods against AB, Rangers, Tommies--you deal the full damage to them, which means scoped MP44s are great for wrecking elite infantry.

The obvious choice is the MP44s, but I'm curious to see if anyone with more experience using MP40 Volks has any super secret strats or tactics to make them do work.

[tehbloxx4h]

use the mp44 for more defensive and long range engagements use mp40 coupled for grenades if you want an allahu akbar coy