Players will decide they don't want support weapons based on cost efficiency, if the MG42 and Mortar cost a lot people will just get a few grens out and rush t2. It would make Ostheer in smaller game modes harder to play and still piss easy in team games.
You're trying to tell us that HMG42 cost effectiveness=maxim cost effectiveness and 81mm=82mm cost effectiveness?
Your definition of "cost effectiveness" is either extremely skewed towards "cost effective=overpowered" or you should be in support of buffing maxim and soviet mortar in every thread possible.
The cost effectiveness comparison clearly shows that MG42 cost effectiveness is at least on level of .50 cal, which costs 280mp. Grw cost effectiveness also surpasses twice as expensive pack howitzer. Should pack howi cost less then 240mp or grw should cost 500mp?
It would also make reinforcing more hellish than it already is, to many model losses can drain away all your MP early game very quickly making come backs hard.
If you need to reinforce mortar, your placing it wrong. Also because default crew reinforce is 25% cheaper, they'd still be cheaper to reinforce then grens. It wouldn't impact recrewed squads reinforce costs at all.
You're not standing on a strong point here.
Personally I think the 4 man squad nature of Ostheer makes it way to vulnerable to squad wipes (USF shouldn't have 4 man squads either), and paying more MP for the same DPS but more durability sounds like a fair trade all things considered.
So.... .50 cal to 240mp or HMG42 to 280 and pack howi to 240 or turbomortar to 480 then?
Turbomortar is also superior to -NDA- which costs the same.
Cost effectiveness you have tried to back yourself up with is skewed greatly for ost support teams.
Numbers don't lie.
But ultimately I think the best solution is just to give the other side buffs instead of giving Ost nerfs, the reason Ostheer is so good right now compared to the other factions is that they got the most Alpha buffs of any faction.
So we end up with more overpowered units?
I'd rather avoid that.