CE are bad at EVERY range, at least pios are good up close.
But since you want to compare:
Pios have-
Above average LOS
Sand bags
2x mines
Bunkers
Wire
Flamer
Sweeper
Good dps up close
CE have
Demos (lol)
Wire
Mines
Flamer
Sweeper
????
4 of the old shitty con mosins
And what ever you feel is wrong with pios has no impact on cons. They are not competitors, they fill different roles entirely. You don't seem to understand how balance works. There is no "if you don't change everything you can't change anything" that's stupid.
Yep, they still perform better as fighting unit. And my changes wouldn't make them more effective as soviet-pios. It would only fix the fail-design or the bug on it.
They have sight, but they shoots with the worst MP on range 35.
Result:
1. They can't scount silent.
2. They put them self into danger, because there will allways be Units with more range and they destroy their surprise-effect.
My Change idea:
1. Give them a logical weapon. To compensate their improvement reduce their sice to 3 and increase their rep-speed to compensate. So they becomes a real passive unit. AND the flamer don't destroy the weapon-profile.
2. Or reduce the range of their MP down from range 35 to 20. So they can scout, but they are still bad designed.
And you know how balance works? lol Ostheer Pios went through hell and now they are more useless then ever bevor. Bad in repair, worst MP in game (only Ostheer weapon-crew has worse) and brocken scouting.
And sure, if you make Cons cheaper and the fight Cons-vs-Grens is balanced, then you can 1. Change Grens to compensate OR us a useless unit and optimice them so they can support if needed.
They will not be better than soviet-pios, they will not be better than Osttruppen. But they will be better than current Pios by put their small ultra-colse advantage and but it into a more balanced weapon-profile.
It seems you don't understand what revamp or a restructuring is. A change must not be a nerf/buff over all.