Profile of Teia Rabishu

Yeah why not Heavies tanks call-in did not include ?

My guess is they're avoiding touching "limited to 1" tanks, but at the same time, they should require tier 4 tech to be unlocked to be called in, if nothing else. Having to tech Major to call in your Pershing or build your Schwerer to call in your Command Panther would go a good way towards removing player overreliance on those tanks (which even in high-level play are sometimes the only tanks the player will ever build).

Also the Wolverine requiring Major but the Dozer being a freeroll seems kind of weird and inconsistent to me.

-tier locking upgrades for them is a nice concept
-concern regarding osttruppen balance not within osttruppen commander but from lightning war- reserve army spamming (though there is quite a lot of opportunity cost unless muni control is substantial - mass upgrading LMGs + nonstop reserve army precludes the use of stuka CAS). need closer games to see if this is an issue.
-opinion -try out different weapon packages rather than lmg42. lmg42 osttruppen are more or less grenadier v0.75 and fill the same niche. (6x?) mp40s would be far more interesting, less problematic balance-wise, and round out the ostheer complement more. If it doesn't clutter gameplay too much, mp40s could be unlocked at BP2 and LMG42 (or something else) at BP3.

I'm going to second the idea of an MP40 upgrade at BP2, simply because then the squad retains a somewhat unique identity. Give them some kind of Tactical Advance or Hit the Dirt or whatever ability fits best (maybe make it variable based on what weapons they have equipped, like how paratroopers work) at BP3 to compensate rather than simply giving them a different weapon choice and you'd have a unit that can actually scale into the late game on a clean and coherent theme without feeling cluttered or like there are redundant upgrades.

Another idea: Give them Merge at BP1. This would fit with them basically being Conscripts thematically (and I think even mechanically, if they still get the conscript half of the grens+cons bulletins), and tie into the "Osttruppen gain a new ability each battle phase" theme for scaling. It even fits on a historical level.

However, the lack of scalability of the Osttruppen into the late game hurts the viability of the commander.

So their scalability is improved by... making them reinforce slower, making them worse with captured weapons, and giving them LMGs when in the very late game? That just makes them feel like really, really cut-rate grens past the very early game at that point, when their main selling point of their ability to tarpit your opponent is getting nerfed by a 75% reinforcement time increase.

Some scalability buffs would be nice, especially if they can't use captured weapons effectively, but having it specifically be LMGs just invites unfavourable comparisons to infantry you'd really rather have instead by the time you're at battle phase 3.

Supply Drop (Formerly Supply Drop Zone)
Given the doctrine’s reliance on support weapons to deal damage in the later stages, we are giving a supply drop that allows players to make use of the Osttruppen’s ability to cheaply recrew team weapons.

Now drops 1 unmanned MG 34, 1 unmanned AT gun, 1 munitions crate (50 munitions) and 1 fuel crate (25 fuel)
Cost changes to 450 manpower

This feels like the same "overpriced package where you'll never want all the contents at once" problem that the USF AT gun + paratroopers drop has. Turning manpower into a direct resource is good and, more to the point, clean and simple. Turning it into a goodie bag of things you might not even need all of at once just makes the ability feel lacklustre, even if you're getting a good rate for all of them.

Oh yeah, and I'm going to echo the "doctrinal non-British emplacements look absolutely ridiculous compared to non-doctrinal British emplacements" sentiment. I get that emplacements are meant to be a core part of one of the main British strategies, but come on, units like the Pak 43 might as well not exist if you're going to lose a 350 manpower and 45 fuel investment basically the moment the opponent gets vision on it. Also:

Cost of these howitzers and the Pak 43 more accessible in smaller game modes while less potent when shelling into a base without spotters.

Serious question: Can't it just suffer a scatter penalty when firing specifically into a base sector? I know there must be some "targets a base sector" check in the code because of how artillery (both off-map and unit-based) can't be fired into bases, so the same kind of logic could be applied to the howitzers to make them situationally less accurate without stopping them from being effective counter-play to British emplacements.

Mortar Pits have being nerfed to near oblivion, considering what it is. Auto Fire range is only 5 more than a regular mortar, it's rate of fire garrison bonus is removed AND brace is down to 20 seconds. Any more nerfs and the mortar pit will never be built again.

The major issue with mortar pits isn't necessarily competitive balance (since competitively-minded players accept they can be annoying but only affect a certain portion of the map while consuming manpower/popcap for a static effect), but the psychological effects they tend to have on casual players. To a casual player, having a mortar pit double-tap wipe a full health squad is a severe case of the feel-bads, and that gets amplified into a "Brits are bullshit" mentality that turns people away from the faction.

Desyncing the two mortars would go a long way towards alleviating that grievance for casual players while not needing to nerf them even harder and thus keep them entirely out of competitive (or at least ranked) play.

Regarding the demo changes, I'm curious what the envisioned usage of them is with this patch. Basically, how do you see Soviet/USF players laying them and activating them over the course of a given average match? Clearly, they retain the ability to destroy garrisons preemptively, as well as their usage against OKW buildings as the like, but it seems like it's now nigh impossible to kill squads with them unless you place the demo along a retreat path or something (or, again, the opposing player sends their unit somewhere without paying attention, but this is significantly less effective if they can't be placed on capture points). The timer version felt like it had a clearer design purpose and synergized better with the other changes as a means of punishing garrisoning without being too harsh on infantry, whereas this one leaves the impression that the intent of this change is simply to lower their usability tremendously.