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Then let's make Grens equal stronger than Rifles and RE equal stronger than Sturmpio and etc... You are calling for the wrong decision of homogenization of the game, not balance.

Top players want to win because they have outplayed their opponent in some fashion. Not because they were able to cram Rifles and an M20 down their Ost opponent's cutoff for 12 minutes until the Sherman comes to seal the deal.

In that case, ask Relic to create a league of top20 each faction only. Because right now, if I look into Top10, I see only people with +10 win streak and it is not difficult to deduct from it Top players aren't, almost never, playing together in auto-match. They are only playing vs random top200.
So question: How can they know better about balance if 90% of the time they are only winning because they naturally outclass their opponent. They know what unit is strong, what is not, they have a better understanding of game mechanisms, but have they better opportunities to test them in a balanced match than average players? not at all in my opinion.
In this department, average players have a better vision on balance simply because they have 90% more chance to match someone with a similar skill and knowledge level.

Balance isn't something on the top of what you want to achieve but in the middle. If you only balance by the top, you'll lose unskilled players, if you balance a new time even more by the top, you'll lose average players and the lower population of your actual TOP will become the average, do it again and you'll lose them leaving you a population of 100-200 top players. Enjoy your game now.
Balance is always something you do from the middle with visibility on how it will impact TOP and Bottom. If you balance well from the middle, TOP will not become suddenly unbalanced because it will mostly be a skill gap balance and unit easiness skill adjustment isn't something that unbalance TOP.

So a synthesis must be done every time we speak about balance between what average players say and Top players know, just saying to someone: The counter exist so it is balanced isn't the right behavior, you also need to think in skill level, is the counter easy to use at any level?
What is easier to use to counter light/medium vehicle play? A blob of shreck roaming on the map (supported by 1 or two shadow raken) or a Sherman/Jackson/Atgun/Capt supported by a stuart you need to bring close to your target to use its ability?
from a pure game stat, understanding, mechanisms, both methods exist and work perfectly but are they balanced in term of skill requirement?
You want to make volks shreck blob more difficult to use => increase the skill requirement and maybe lower the skill requirement to use 2 or 3 combined units Stuart+capt+ATgun/jackson/sherman. This will not impact high level players but balance average brackets.

So no, balance isn't something you do from TOP to Bottom, but from the Middle to TOP and Bottom.

I always play like a noob in team games. So I'm sure I'm losing because of me.

how about this:

give ober the same 2x schreck as the panzergrenadier and move it to the medical truck. However, the LMG34 upgrade still require the flak truck. Naturally buying the schreck lock out the mp44 and lmg34.

volks get faust instead of schreck

O_o

Obers T1 + Sturm + Volks, it is a bit too much of AI power. This would requires to nerf even more Obers and nobody wants that.

Honestly, there is nothing easier than adding fuel/ammo cost to actual free/low cost existant upgrades. (But I agree it takes more time to do)

As stated before, the problem isn't the volks shreck blob, the problem is it absence of real cost =>

1- it cost nothing to build.
2- it cost nothing to replace
3- it doesn't delay other abilities / upgrades.

Purely removing shreck from volks would break the balance for another 6 months... I'm not saying it is a bad idea, just that it will take too much time to balance.

I believe the solution is on:
1- Adding munition cost to every single OKW abilities and increasing the low cost existent one to other faction level. This will reduce OKW overall powerfulness and force the player into tactical decision making around munition usage.
2- Add a fuel cost (around 10-20 each) to unlock shreck and flamnade + add a fuel cost (5) to the Kubel
3- Add a fuel/munition cost to the OKW T3 canon in a form of an upgrade.
4- Add a fuel/munition cost to the forwarded retreat point upgrade (and reduce its manpower cost)
5- Reduce manpower cost of doctrinal call-in and add munition upgrades (falls,jaegers)

They are weak in hands of Axis fanboys. Otherwise they don't have any real weaknesses.