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I think you could take this in the direction of Pgrens and make the upgrade a little better but cost more. It's a little risky b/c of how infantry changes can go wild, but G43 grens seem like a rather marginal ability currently due to how many other infantry units such as tommies, rifles, and even cons have more expensive and ultimately better upgrade paths available. It's not a bad ability but it's nothing special right now. Pgrens on the other hand...

I think you neatly summarized my point here about g43s in their current state being a lackluster upgrade with very marginal role despite being included in 3 (three) commanders meaning someone at somepoint thought g43s are really useful

Upping the muni cost to 60 and adjusting the performance accordingly would seem like the easiest solution. The less riskier way would be to keep g43s performance at the current state and match the SVT cons/ ppsh penals timing by reducing the CP cost.

If G43 are not enough, there is something else you should do then.

Yes you are correct that if something is worse compared to alternatives one should not use it. But my point was what if g43s were enough for at least some situations rather than being a meme.

I returned to this game after the recent patch playing my favourite faction, the ostheer. I quickly noticed a pattern: It's as if USF got really popular these days. I could not help but to notice that I'd become really rusty in my time of not playing this game as I lost early engagements left and right, whereas I usually had thought of myself having a solid early game. After having a glance at coh2.org i was relieved when it dawned on me that the usf really had gotten a buff of sorts in form of rework and indeed I was not a bad player but a victim of usf op.

Jokes aside I understand why this was done (OKW), but I feel that the actions they have taken to balance out OKW vs USF has had a powercreep effect on other factions such as Ostheer. My issue here is not that "RM OP!" my issue is that grens are now underperforming in the early engagements and even more rely on MG42s support to the point where getting your mg flanked once leads to losing your early map control as your 3 grens just can't fight out whats left of those 3 RM causing a snowball effect.Fixing this issue buffing grens performance would hardly seem fair as the late game lmg grens vs bar rifles still is as it should be in my opinion.

These points in mind I suggest that in order to balance out the early game they should decrease the construction time of grenadier. This would not affect the late or mid game balance and would in my mind balance out the sticky early game. Another more drastic suggestion would be a small buff to the far range of k98s dps mirroring the small short range buff that RM got. This would emphasize the specialization of the grens as long range unit in comparison to RM.

ANOTHER thing that really grinds my gears are the G43s. At 2CPs these are super marginal in their usefulness when you take into account that they are in 3 commanders total. These 45 muni upgrades arrive too late to effect the early game and when they arrive they lose their window of opportunity very quickly. If you want to have more flexible all rounder infantry as ostheer you go for the 5 men grens as they are superior in almost every scenario. As far as my understanding is the g43 grens are supposed to promote you engaging the enemy on the move as the g43s don't drop almost any damage as you move and close in the distance. What exactly are you supposed to enclose and engage with these at 2cp timing that leads into an worthy engagement that you could not have taken from afar with mg42s? G43s turn your long range glass cannons into short range glass blowpipes.

My suggestions regarding the G43s are:
-Make them 1CP or tied to battle phase 1 at 0CP
-extend the buffs that panzergrenadier g43s received to also include grens

If SOV goes penal into sniper then you can just arrange your mg and 2 grens into a control group and drive the bastards back to base. Decap cutoffs, soft retreat without bleed and wait for 222 to assert dominance. If he goes full penals go 222 or 251 anyway and he'll either has to nerf the ai of the penals getting at rifles or he takes the bleed.

How can you lose your sniper or mg to scout car when they are already used in tandem with gren?

I also bg and cry from time to time when versing top30 sov players bleeding me with snipers. But those are tears of self betrayal because deepdown I know that the hardcounter is just locked behind l2p wall in the form of good countersnipe play.

Same philosophy as Scott M8A1 has a 75mm, Sherman 75 has a 75mm, Panther has a 75mm.
PzIIIN has a 75mm. Sherman 76 has a 76mm, SE8 has a 76mm, Firefly has a 77mm. Comet has a 77mm.
Pz4D Command Tank all have a 75-77mm, StuG and Pz4 also has a 75mm. They should all have the same
stats. I can't wait for M8A1 Scott to have Panther armor

StuIIIG has better frontal armor than Pz4.
It has more range than Pz4.
It has more pen than Pz4.
It has more ROF than Pz4.

Thank you.

It also have twp.

No I mean it literally has the same gun and so why don't they have the same stats. I'd cladly trade the current stats like the better range, pen etc to the ones in Pz4 maingun.