You're absolutely misinterpreting what he says.
There is not much reason to add truck cost and the less starting fuel.
What counts is the fuel you need to gain until you can tech up to a certain unit, in our case an AT gun.
Now, what's the difference there between the factions?
No one said it's irrelevant. I just said you can't add it to the cost directly like that
Asymmetry comes in too many forms for you to just choose to account for this one mathematically
What about the free flak hq? What about free officers? What about no caches for okw? What about ost and sovs needing the time to physically build buildings? They lose fuel to US, okw, and brits who can start capping territory faster
ok i will change my original post so u can understand
then what about a clone of the zis ? make it come after first truck call in so it's even more expensive than zis tech (will come 5 fuel later than zis )
or a clone of the usf after tier truck call in ? (10 fuel to reach cheaper ,but no free officer)
or a clone of the ukf one always after first truck call in just 5 fuel sooner but no sniper or RE?