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Ahahahahhahahahah.
Are you serious ?

Oh god i'm crying for too much laughing... ok let me list a few points from your post, just to make sure i understood everything perfectly:
1) Volks nondoc being a cqb unit is totally legit, but the faction has another early cqb unit right from the start.
THIS OBVIOUSLY because of the widespread "Muh coh1 perfect game evah and volks had mp40 there" totally ignoring different faction design and units in different games, as well as costs and intended roles.
The only upgrade that would make volks truly complementary to sturms is being made doctrinal...apparently because why not ?

2) The "HE" grenade is weak AF (TRUE POINT), and your solution to it, instead of a proper buff (that would make it perfect as sturm can use flamethrower and volks get a good wiping granade as they don't need anti garrison) is to give volks the shitty grenade that was already removed as it was useless and made okw killable within min 3 by mg spam.
Meanwhile Feuersturm would have a flame grenade (anti garrison), a flamethrower (antigarrison) and a flame tank (anti infantry/garrison)...

3) Mp40 is trash (TRUE POINT, how would you call an upgrade that makes a more expensive squad (volks mp40) be straight up worse both in utility and raw performances to cons ppsh ?), so the solution is to force it down players throat

4) Volks getting a no brainer upgrade is not ok, rifles, IS, grens and so on are ok.
All range improvements, present from the very moment this game has been relased are suddenly an issue.

Sturms role gets diverted from being a cqb unit as the match progresses and mines need layed, tanks repaired, and rockets need fired, by the time that they are pressed into different roles volks should be there to take the mantle.

I didnt playe vcoh a whole lot so im not drawing inspiratiom from that, but from the idea of making choices. When do you NOT get the STG package for volks? If you dont have the munitions... Full stop. Thats not a choice, its like the old 2cm upgrade for the 222, its an inevitably.
IF they got mp40s as stock it gives a choice of refinement and better capability in urban areas if needed.

2. I never said not to buff the normal HE nade, sinply that in its pitiful state ontop of mp40s being a worse choice than STGs its a shitty upgrade path.
As for fire storm having too many flame.weapons... Well thats kinda the point... If you look at the underused conscript support tactics you will see it has many conscript flavoured abilities, Similarily lufftwaffe support offers an entire commander of air support. Theres nothing wrong with thematic commanders.

And okw has changed alot, as has the factions it fights. Maxim spam is not nearly as scary as it used to be and a BUFFED version of the grenade wouldnt necessarily do poorly.

3.mp40 is seriously underpowered, making the fact that its taking up a doctrine slot even worse. Its the m42 AT gun of small arms hands down but as a core component of the faction it might actually get a much needed buff AND more use. Plus it adds the option to diversify and break the blobability of volks (and yes, the allies doom blobs need adressed as awell)

4. Dont put words in my mouth. Dont. Allied infantry needs looked at as well but this here thread is about the OKW and of you read my previous reply you would see i had other suggestions to try and help OKW tackle that... Mess outside of battle of the blobs.

Wait. Is someone trying to say that a unit with all the tools to survive being squishy but 50% more not as squishy is too much? Madness MADDDNESSSSS I SAY!

But for real, 2 more hits worth of health is no small matter. And "just use infantry" is a bullshit cop out given that rifles are designed to win all infantry battles almost outright (yes thats an exaggeration, but really not far off...)

Do it all infantry is a bad design decision that snowballs hard. If your infantry can beat theirs all the time (or pretty close) you dont need a medium tank to gain the edge (like they do) so you can focus on TDs to keep your infantry unmolested. Lets be honest, if you are getting a sherman its probably because you are beating them well enough you know you dont need to worry about enemy armour for a little bit and want to rub their faces in it...

i wouldnt be opposed to something like:
bunkers cost reduced to 100mp
mg costs 60mu+ 50mp and like 2 pop (give pit similar treatment)

this makes the OTHER noncombat roles of the bunker cheaper and makes multiple MG bunkers unsustainable

or hell, is it possible to make the bunker and pit provide the MG as sort of a crew weapon limited in the building? think like a garrison bonus al la brits. the mgs are there but only active when the building is crewed. no free defense but can be manned to create a strong point and abandoned when not needed

What about making penals SVTs a muni upgrade after t3 is built instead of being stock? Let them have bolts and return the flamer upgrade (SVT, flamer and PTRS are all exclusive. Maybe even tie a grenade type to each upgrade like the sticky satchel is. SVT could be a regular nade, flamer demo package could be the normal satchel) adjust manpower cost as needed, waiting for the killer DPS and locking it behind munitions isnt unreasonable i dont think, especially for a faction with nothing else to spend it on (especially not since demos were removed)

The soviet sniper iirc already is balanced around 4 man squads. If i recall it shoots 4 4 shots slower than the ost sniper shoots 6. I think the OP has things wrong, the ost sniper is all about bleed while the soviet sniper should be about countering the OST sniper.

Is it possible to reduce the range or something of the soviet sniper perhaps if the spotter gets killed to help reinforce ambushing the ost sniper vs trying to duel?