Infantry is too expensive. A fully upgraded section costs 50 fuel ( 5 men squad + bren upg) + 90 munition and they can't shoot on the move. LEIGs and mortars having a field day. I play complete noob with 2 LEIGs and it takes forever to win. He is not even micro-ing them. I have no counter since they shoot from base. For the first 20 minute UC is the best unit on the field literally. The MG can't suppress nothing on time. They die as easy as grens, their performance is not reflected in the cost. The only practical tanks are churchill and FF but they come very late..if you survive to that point you adversary is a noob anyway. They are just a meh faction. When i play them it's like i try to run with my feet tied up.
With WM i rarely lose to rank 500 if ever. With brits i almost always lose to rank 500 and even worse. I know i suck but so are my opponents
Oh and also they don't have a light vehicle that can properly handle infantry. have to do with AEC until T3. but AEC costs tons of fuel for what it can do. I think T70 has almost the same price but T70 is a beast.
also until the section are fully upgraded you can't really handle blobs, WM and OKW. complete noobs just attack moves and i can't stop them.
very frustrating faction to play.
I know how you feel. When you play UKF half the games end up being straight-up torture because of how easy it is to cheese UKF players. OKW can't do it as much but playing UKF vs Ost in 2v2 is just not fun. It's frustrating because UKF can still be good on certain maps if everything goes to plan and you aren't being abused by multiple MGs, OKW infantry blobs or sim city players.
The thing with UKF is IMO that they will always either be bad because the units they have are just balanced while at the same time the stuff they don't have ruins it. Or they get OP crutch units pre-nerf Sections, UC, Centaur etc to make up for the missing things like indirect fire. And then they will be OP because people will just abuse them (like 5x5 man section blob). It's almost impossible to balance a faction like that.