Big issue is that Ost is forced to crutch on anything but stock grens: 5man, agrens, Ostruppen. Ost is bedridden to literally those 5 doctrines. I have said that the 5man upgrade is slightly too good though and the RA bonus is unneccesary.
However, what is NOT acceptable is pro players like Fire & Terror thinking pgren timing needs a nerf cuz ostruppen + pgrens is too oppressive. THAT'S THE POINT OF THE ENTIRE DOCTRINE: to be oppressive with the tempo and map control. Ostruppen + pgren can feel oppressive if used correctly, I've played against a rank 20 Ost player, think his name was Musk Weed. Both games, he used the Ost + pgren build and as a rank 300 USF player I almost crippled him the 2nd game by just outspamming his infantry with a combination of rifle + cav rifles. Eventually his ostruppen micro was overwhelmed and he only won because one of his railway arty shells scattered extremely wide and deleted 3 squads.
Unlike 5man grens, ostruppen actually requires a fair bit of micro while 5 man grens are superior to riflemen at almost all ranges and makes them on par with sections, effectively reducing the need of ever using an mg42. Basically Ost can play like OKW if they cap the munis for the 5man but with all the perks, like better team weapons and faster mediums.
The solution is to instead give grens a damage buff vs suppressed and pinned units. A rather hefty one like 15-20%.
Calling me a pro player lol. I just suggested panzergrens to either require t1 or t2, hardly a big nerf. I just feel like when playing soviets you just get stomped becouse 3min panzergrens can hardly be dealt with+ the flamer truck forces you into zis and this is basically insta loss becouse of no mapcontrol.
I also talked to other players like CN and seeking and they suggested that the only way to play sov against osttruppen is Dshk since it can push away both FHT and PGs.
This feels like the same way 5 men grens need to be played against brit IS, which i dont like and thus suggested the change.
Pgs with t1 is hardly an Issue IMO just the fast rushes are hard to deal with (without dshka) since you cant go schocks becouse of FHT