I just asked Dane, on Twitch, he said his original words were that "if anything was REMOTELY op on Ostheer, it would be the 5man grens." So yeah, 5man grens MIGHT be ever sooooo slightly OP. And not surprisingly, that is an absolute blasphemy to the likes of SuperAlliedFan. Not surprised he made this thread.
Regardless of my opinion on balance I feel a thread touching upon balance after UTT is probably valid. I could have made this thread after the patch notes released but I waited until two tournaments completed to decide my opinion. I never hounded or attacked other forum/twitch members calling for a hotfix.
If you disagree with my conclusions feel free to point out why.
But for me the outrage at SVT cons when VSL have performed arguably better would indicate a balance issue. I've been defensive for allies lately because Brits were nerfed out of the game for many tournaments, some players have a vendetta against them despite them being identical in Ost design in many ways (which I can understand, I also dislike emplacements). For the record I also called for Wehr mortar and ostrippen buffs late game, as well as nerfs to UKF perimeter overwatch so let's drop the fanboy wars.