Profile of Esxile

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Comparing RM and Gren dps in a vacuum is certainly stupid. Not that showing stat doesn't make sense for the reflexion but basing all your argumentation on it shows the limitation your have at visualizing the big picture of the balance question.
The way you put far/close range stats without any once of questioning make me think you have 0 idea what you are talking about. You just add numbers happily seeing they are showing something going in your way. And how could it be different since we are talking about two units clearly different with quite a huge price gap.

Now, if you really want to be useful with your numbers, you'll have to consider the reality of the game like: assuming USF is an aggressive faction and Ostheer a defensive faction, RM are offensive tool and Gren defensive tool, assuming the RM squad is charging to close the range, passing through successive yellow/green/red covers vs a green covered gren squad, so assuming the RM squad reach close range where his DPS shine,
1)how many RM squad member are still alive at that time?
2)how many Gren squad member are still alive at that time?
3)What would become the dps and life remaining of the RM squad at close range
4)What would become the dps and life remaining of the gren squad at close range

And then, taking only those 2 assumptions as a beginning, I'll be interested in the numbers you may provide.
Knowing there are many many other assumptions possible, that would simply be a beginning of intelligent reasoning upon numbers.

Hope it explains the sarcasm I made when I responded that if we put RM stat equal to Gren stat, we could also put their relative prices equal...

They only lose when either trying to stay at max range, or when closing in without the use of cover. This is the way it is meant to be, because otherwise Grens would have no chance, regardless of their tactical situation - which would of course be bullshit, because then there would be no more reason to build Grens against USF, and thus there would be no more reason to even play Ostheer vs. USF matchups.

Your idea of making BARs even cheaper would counter the whole idea of fixing the double BAR spam that we currently see. Or better said: It wouldn't just counter it, it would also make it worse. We don't need a cheaper, stronger Rifleman-upgrade combo, that one already is too powerful.

Sometime it is good to ready the entire topic to understand what people are saying. Someone is complaining that RM>Gren, so I say it you want to make Gren=RM, do it also for the price.
At no moment I say that I want RM=Gren.

Unfortunately, this is too late to implement.
In case of a future COH3, this should be thought and brought to the admins from the get go (not the current politic). Not something exclusive to the top25, but something which should avoid the usual shitpost we have around here atm and leave some space for serious discussion.

What i had propose in the past:
-Requirements to post a balance thread: replays uploaded to the site + playercard show up
People shouldn't hide on the annonimatum, gamemode matters as issues differ and skill level shouldn't matter to be able to brought light into something.

-Everyone should be able to see posts in the balance section

-At first, everyone should be able to create threads and post on the balance section.
---In case someone shitpost/flamewar, then revoke the permission to post in OTHER people's thread.
---In case someone spam/create low quality threads, completely prohibit both posting and thread creation.
The point here is that, at first, if someone doesn't know how to interact with others, he should still have a chance of bringing up issues (only been able to post in the thread he makes).

Balance whiners are all around the balance forum and honestly you've more than enough fed them, gave them credit with responses.
Take it as a troll if you want but my guess is that Katikof would have made a good moderator, if he could have moderate all the stupid stuff he was trolling on purpose, the balance forum would have been much more cleaner.

The CP locks the tank itself after a certain level, but if you increase its price you also increase the time between two T34. In other words CP determine when the first tank hit the field, while price determine the frequency you can pump out another one.

In case of the T34/85, you can skip the T70 light tank and the whole T3 to go for the T34 immediately. Its effective against both infantry and tanks, its somewhere above a P4 but i can reach it just as fast. Its too easy to get your first T34/85, i think it should be also locked behind CP8, where OKW ostwind is btw.

Skipping the T70 means nothing... all it require from you is to handle axis light tanks. 222 in case of OST, and Luchs in case of OKW... Guards can deal both, and T34/85 is in the very same doctrine. Guards Motor doctrine is easy mode imo. Because of Penals w/ flamethrower, because of Guards, because of the multirole T34/85 and its price, and because of the mark vehicle ability.

If you would make Tiger a 0 CP ability, and put it in OST T4, you would see it more frequently than now.

The problem comes mostly from the guards that are simply too good to fill the gap before T4, even more with the Penal buff. Weaker the guards and suddenly you're not going to see t34/85 rush as much as today.

That's why the light-vehicle meta needs to change at the same time, they allow an aggressive player to carve out a massive advantage very quickly.

With reduced LV potency and increased cost, the opponent should not be so far behind in the game that skipping teching to call-ins is required to make up for the disadvantage. The problem isn't that the call-ins allow comebacks, it is that they are basically required to stay in the game.

It makes the game too predictable and restricts wider strategies and commanders.

Aggressive play need to be rewarded, and at the same time the game need more balance at the LV stage.

But there is a huge design issue that comes against any form of balance mid game. Or you'll have LV too strong as today, or too weak or without purpose to be fielded.

You have to consider why you build a LV first. To increase the pressure or to decrease it as a counter to other LV or mass infantry.
If it is to increase the pressure, what for? We know that in Coh2, there is no correlation between map control and army size or MP income.
So the only two reasons to build a LV today is to cutoff the fuel and mp bleed you opponent. If we decide to nerf the LV to balance them, making them less deadly, the bleeding reason goes away. Remain the cutoff reason which is the most hypothetic, complicated and risky one. You can't camp your opponent cutoff or fuel point or it is because you have already won the game.

If you nerf LV to make them balance today, it is pretty much going to make people stop using them and thus reinforcing calling meta and medium rush. LV's value in term of impact will be too low to make any difference in game.

Now there are other paths that can be explored, we could nerf the damage effectiveness of LVs and increase their abilities, something significant so having them in your army composition gives you actually a bonus.
Auras, special shot, vision etc...

And that's the thing.

Take away call ins and plenty of games will end before 15min becasue player has, let's say, 100fuel but it's not enough to build anything and on the other hand he also can't call anything.

I would prefer it, taking away Icomeback button because I have a doctrine that counter everything you fielded, just have to wait for is stupid. Stug-E, Ostwind, M10 etc...
Here we are facing a design vision that goes against competitive activities. But that's not a surprise when you heard lead designer saying "we want each game to tell a story" =/= competitive spirit.