And:
Soviet where not meant to have semi-elite stock mainline infantry
You sure?
Penals were at PG price point.
PGs are semi-elite inf.
Seems to me like Penals were meant to have that role from day 1, the only thing that changed is instead of being CQC exclusively they now can actually attack at range.
USF where not meant to support from good support weapons
Worst mortar in game, worst ATG in game unless you constantly pump muni into it.
UKF where not meant to have snare
They most certainly were meant to have snare, but that snare got removed from the game.
Already forgot that sniper engine shot was a snare?
AEC had permanent effects on abilities, not timed ones?
They were not meant to have a snare on mainline inf, that still holds true.
Problem is that there is power creep and although grenadier have received buff the "combined arms" thing does not seem to work any more since other faction can either counter it with equally effective combined arm or with sear brute force. Something that Ostheer do with PGs.
Compensated with power creep of ost support units.
You never could and never will be able to play with grens only without doctrinal support of that playstyle.
And that is why imo one should start nerfing the other factions instead of buffing Ostheer.
And every single balance team member have said to you about 1000 times its not going to happen regardless of how many times you will repeat it in all the different threads.