I am not sure why you want bring the history of Ostheer patches up, no matter what the history is the fact remains that Ostheer did not perform good in the last tournament.
Fire and terror claim that allies have not gotten any significant buff the last two year. Now PLS explain if you agree with that or you do not agree with that.
But pls stop trolling and derailing this thread just because you want to disagree with anything I post.
But you are missing the impact of the tech changes. USF had always had great unit but the come with a price. Support weapons would come later and one would have either access to suppression and light vehicles or ATG , indirect fire weapon and light tank.
Actually those restriction where so important that they Airborne doctrine was designed to simply bypass them.
Once these restriction where removed USF become a faction not only with superior infatry and light vehicles but a faction that could beat ostheer in their own game of combined arms.
Not to mention a number of commander revamps that made USF commanders stronger and with more abilities.
Now read my post did I say ostheer need buffs? What I said is that other faction need nerfs.
You can argue what ever you like but your example is balance issue and not a design issue.
It also flawed. The m20 and AEC did not "major redesigns numerous times".. Neither did Soviet T1 and it was not because of sniper/222 problem. It was because of maxim spam.
No it was in part because of Ostheer and the old sniper meta. Even diehard wehr fanboys like imperial Dane admit early snipers are a bad design choice.
Or do you think AEC and m20 were given bonus detection and MG damage vs snipers for nothing? The patch notes are still there, so let's not start denying old Ostheer was part of the problem.
One search on the forum about Wehr sniper will quickly highlight the design issues with it being fielded so early and how USF and Brits had no answer to old double sniper. This then led to stuff like AEC buff, later AEC AI buff, reduction in sniper survivability, AEC/m20 bonus vs sniper and earlier m20.