Profile of Vipper

The G43 does not have to an upgrade for PG. Even the ability is not called g43 but "jaeger light infatry upgrade" and it can provide different bonuses to different infatry.

Timing:
The problem does not actually have to do with timing of PG but the timing of allied options.

Allied "elite" infatry come earlier, this is the equivalent of having KT early available in the game and the opponent having to swarm with mediums to counter making the first engagements having a very significant impact in the game and increasing snowballing effect. These unit should be delay or the should not come with "elite" weapon and their weapon should be delay upgrades.

Competition in the Tier:
This again has to timing this time of light vehicles/light tanks. One find the need to rush a 222 to counter the m3/flamer combo or the Wc51/smg combo. Light vehicles/light tanks could also be delayed a bit so that cars have a longer time to pay and their squad wiping ability reduced. The reintroduction of the 221 as a counter to car could also help.


G43s Need a Revamp:
G43 and other doctrinal weapons could use a redesign. Imo they could easily be merge with 5 men upgrade providing an alternative role for the units instead of more of the same. Their profile could be changed to much those M1 making grenadiers a units similar to riflemen and Pg a units similar to paras/ranger.

Further more the ability (and other like it)could be moved to be an upgrade available in the HQ giving the player the choice of investing his fuel to improve his infatry or going for lights, instead of the I spam infatry until I get enough CP to unlock weapons logic.

Another approach would be to completely scrap the G43 for PG/ST "jager light infatry upgrade" and give them other bonuses for these unit custom made for the role, that could include Thompson/PPsh for Stormtroopers or 5 member or defensive bonuses or access to Faust or combination of G43 (redesigned) and LMGs.

Suggestions:
1) Reduce reinforce time, PG reinforcement is ridiculously high. (Actually normalizing all reinforcement times in 4 categories would help allot from faster to slower engineer/mainline/elite/support weapons)

2) Reduce cost to buy change weapon at spawn to +2 Kar/G43 +2ST44 allowing +1+1 shreck, the 2 extra ST44 could be an available upgrade or it could an upgrade for the "jager light infatry upgrade" ability (g43).

3) Overhaul veterancy and vet 1 ability. Bonuses could include reinforcement cost reduction, increase is XP gained for taking damage and less XP gained for enemy for inflicting damage, damage reduction similar rangers. Vet 1 ability could include passive synergy when fight near vehicles or some sort of close range AT weapon like Hafthohlladung.

4) Maybe have BP1/T2 become cheaper but only allow building PG and 221 the rest being lock behind BP2. (similar change could be made for T3 allowing to better time Ostwind/Pz4)

MG spam is how you lose as Ostheer. And Ostheer shouldn't be touched at all, it's other every factions that need toning down to Ost levels.

Exactly.

Ostheer used to benchmark that other faction were balanced around, it should become that once more.

One could simply have 2 fire modes direct and indirect.

Direct fires AP rounds to low range indirect fires HE.

Instead of suppression I suggest "shell shock" a critical that reduces the DPS of the unit affected. (same goes for ST).

Direct hit could cause vehicles critical like driver injured gunner injured instead.

The unit then could have utility instead of raw fire power.

two DP-27s will really be enough, given that they are most likely to be a buff, and they need a buff - this is the worst LMG in the game.

Regardless of the performance of the DP itself Guards themselves are a very powerful long range unit.

On has to look at the whole package.