Profile of Esxile

Did you even read what I wrote? You will get ~51/49, probably less, if you consider everybody playing and searching, which is what you have to do to calculate percentage for each faction. Which shows that there is almost no difference in player base. (Even less than) 51 out of 100 people prefer axis.

I guess I should have listened to SlaYoU, some people are not good enough with numbers to understand the basics...

The matter of fact is more that 80% of people want to play Axis first, whatever their reasons are.
Now since 100% of that pool of player want to play the game, some of them just switch faction to have a faster one.

So now the question is what is inside the "whatever reasons" that make them wanting to play Axis first.

3vs3 and 4vs4 allow to specialize yourself in a sector of team play, capping, resource generation, inf, support, tanks etc...

The problem is by game design, specialized factions are Axis one. So they benefit more of it than USF and Soviet ones.
If you can found some synergies in a mix of Soviet and USF, this is definitively not the case in USF only in a 3vs3 or 4vs4.

USF/Soviet need more synchro and knowing what each other is doing between players so the gap tend to reduce when having a good understanding of his faction and playing AT matches. But still, the investment is higher to reach that team skill level playing ally.

That's why you see more people playing Axis in those match-up, cause it is simply more intuitive, less stressful, you always know you can comeback if you hold the minimum, same if your opponents are a bit more skilled.

The underlying problem with that is less and less people will play Ally at random, because you get mixed with people with complete different level in order to create a match with that poor players pool. Who likes to be associate with what he estimates to be a pure noob or being in a game that is completely higher level than his. Nobody, not fun at all.

The counter part is that as a team playing AT, Ally players will tend to win more games simply because they'll raise their skill faster (more games, more stressful at equal skill level so learning more and faster...) and since Axis playing those match-up only see their own face of the coin, they tend to believe that factions are, at least, perfectly design, or that Allied factions are broken in those game modes because they get rapped when before being able to call their heavy tanks. when in fact they are just playing better players for their skill level.

1vs1 is almost balance in term of player, we can definitively argue that the 60/40 favoring Axis faction is due to faction design, playing badboys etc...

2vs2 requires less specialization, both players need to control ground and points and push. Here again Axis design favor them but a good mixed push from a double USF can also make the difference. But still, I believe at equal skill level, playing Axis gives more natural advantage than playing USF/Sov which are really specific play styles. Argument of playing badboys etc... cannot alone explain the usual 80/20 Axis/Ally in queue.

War Spoil system is actually a joke :/ They could have imagine great stuff from Coho experience with bulletins and commanders options, but they just design the baddest system, maybe because it was the easier one to put in place.

As an idea to not nerf them directly but to disable some playstyle, just forbidden to pop them in a building that isn't in the enemy fog of war. so they can still be used to decap and harass, but not to popup in the middle of a defensive line.

OKW does not need to invest fuel in any dedicated unit before the puma, their infantry is enough strong and versatile.
You can easily have a mix a sturmpio + mg34 + falss/fusiliers + volkshreck with a raken behind to counter any USF/soviet early strat. Since all those units are from T0 or call-in, the fuel investment in it is pretty much equal to zero.

Soviet and USF have to invest in some fuel sink upgrade to maintain a field presence.
M3 + doctrinal jeep
Basic squad upgrades for bars and nades + medic for USF