At the end of the day, all players should agree (hopefully) that gren>cons every time. Now, things like veterancy and cover are variables that determine the squads damage output and damage received and I believe relic should settle once and for all on that. No more tweaking.
I think the real issue here, and one that Ciez or OMGPOP brought up in an interview was the LMG damage output. Fix that.
But Note so much so that you ruin the characteristics of each army. There are some things which shouldn't be compromised. So if a guy comes on here complaining why his 5 unvetted conscript blob got torn apart by 3 vetted gren squads with LMG's..well tell him to get good.
Its not just the LMG DPS, the G43 is also an issue and even the K98 is too strong as it has double the dps of the mosin up close and triple the dps at long range. So Soviets have no advantage at any range. The low Mosin dps and the fact that the Gren killing machines get even more ridiculous weapon upgrades breaks the game for me.