Which one faction is the strongest?

Ostheer with Mechanized Assault is probably the easiest to play.

OKW are easiest to play.
OH are hardest to play.
USF aren't too difficult but require aggression which new players are averse to.
SU struggle after Maxim nerf but you will already know the tech from campaign.
Brits fit well with the passive/defensive style of new players but require good map knowledge to succeed so I suggest avoid.

In low-skill matchup OKW or Brits are best with their strong tanks/late game.
In medium-skill OKW or USF are best due to strongest tank rushes.
In high-skill it depends on the map.

Dumb thread tbh

Depends on the matchup, the map, etc. But if we look at it from sheer power and consistency, UKF are the best faction in the game.

They have access to almost all the tools, and their tools are either marginally worse, equivalent, or far better then their counterparts. [ Tanks, AT Gun,Commander abilities, etc ]

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No way OKW got the same amount of troops as OH and UKF, there army size is more comparable to USF and sometime if Soviet goes Guard/Penal combo their forces even rival SU. OKW late game is way better than USF and SU if they do not goes IS-2 or T-34/85.

Depends on the matchup, the map, etc. But if we look at it from sheer power and consistency, UKF are the best faction in the game.

They have access to almost all the tools, and their tools are either marginally worse, equivalent, or far better then their counterparts. [ Tanks, AT Gun,Commander abilities, etc ]

This!

UKF are a faction you can win with, using about half to a third of the effort required to win with other factions. Pretty much all the much needed counters for Brit OP things, were given also to the Brits, ie. Land Mattress, Counter Barrage. You have access to the best (and cheapest) array of medium armour and also an instant kill tank destroyer. Meanwhile you get a whole category of other tools that no other faction gets, emplacements.

Get some PIAT on your infantry and you also have the most powerful blobs in the game too.

But, it's stressful being Brits in the early game, until you have set all your game winning shit up. But once it's done, you can literally put your feet up. Its OP as fak. All other factions require a lot of hard work to finish out the game. Whereas with Brits, the opponent will be forced to come to you, bending over backwards while you just easily defend awash with resources to rebuild anything that is eventually destroyed.

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Ah the balance from the fine folks of Relic Entertainment. Seriously does anybody read official guide nowadays?

I think Momo4sho is right.

Brits aren't OP but they have some abilities that require very low micro and are good for new players.

If you are a noob as you stated

Winrate 1vs1 Top500+ since March2016 all factions


The graphic shows that the only faction able to go above 50% winrate is OKW for what we usually call "noob" players (people above top500).
Lately Ostheer seems to be the 2nd one, to have upper hand over UKF/USF/Sov by a reasonable margin for weeks with some positive and negative spikes but still almost always superior to the average.
In comparison, UKF and Soviet are forming the bottom line of the winrate.
Last, USF navigates in between.

If you manage to get to top250+ (aka between 250 and 500+)


The curve goes more in a "balance way" between all factions, the faction had a big up and down at the beginning of the year, thanks to the last patch making OKW quite OP for a week or so which is symbolized by the up. The adjustment made after is symbolized by the down. After that, the meta is established and all factions are going more or less in the same direction.

Now if you excel in the game, you mau enter the top250, the elite of Coh2



And here you can see a change revert of the above situation, Ostheer and OKW going below the average winrate. There are many reasons about this revert and I'll not explain them here, only hope the next patch will bring more balance at all levels.
You can notice that the OKW OP to the adjustement also exists in this graphic but with a lower impact.