Profile of Aerohank

I do play 1v1 a lot, and from the germans I hardly ever see pure gren spam. There is usually a MG42 in there somewhere, and I see mortars in roughly a third of my games. Snipers are a bit rare, but panzergrens are also seen in 90% of my games.

For the soviets I do see a heavier focus on conscripts. This however has little to do with pop-cap. It's simply the cost of getting T1 or T2 early that puts you at a large unit disadvantage early on vs the cheap T1 of the germans. Not to mention that you need to save up 15-25 fuel before you can even get T1-T2 if you also want to have molotovs.

What is this unit spamming anyway?

Conscript/grenadier spam? This great attacking potential but can't hold ground against assaults.

Infantry spam before tech? This delays tanks and gives you a larger manpower drain.

Spamming tanks? Less infantry to cap points and clear out field guns.

@Aerohank, Link, Greeb:

Yes, reducing Sov Support Crew has already been eliminated as an option.
RNades alone are enough to quash that proposal.

(@Greeb specifically, check my comments on Mortar eaelier in thread)

Focus instead on 1.5 armor on Ost Teams.

The only thing it affects is small arms, and as I pointed out, every single Sov infantry unit (except CE) has a Nade ability to deploy anyways.

While overall this would bring the support weapons of the two factions more in line, it might be detrimental to the overall gameplay experience.

I think that everyone agrees that:
1: Soviet infantry units have a proper risk/reward against german support units; flanking pays of but charging straight in isn't very effective.
2: Things like sniper/mortar ROF are balanced between the two factions taking into account squad sizes.
3: German infantry units don't have a proper risk/reward against soviet support teams; the risk/reward of straight charges are balanced but flanking is not efficient.

In my opinion, point 1 should not be changed, but rather point 3 should. In order to not mess with point 2, maybe the soviet support weapons could use another damage taken bonus against small arms fire only. Currently they have +25% damage taken, maybe they could change this into +25% damage taken against explosives, +33%(?) damage taken against small arms fire.

This would leave most of the unit-balancing, like mortars, rifle grenades, molotovs etc, that we have so far intact, but will make german infantry flanks better against soviet support weapons.

Can conscripts get rifle grenades too?

... is more conscripts!

1v1 Aerohank [Conscript Support Tactics] vs Imperial Dane [Mechanized Assault Doctrine].