Profile of MilkaCow

I never played Germans

And talks about balance. lol. D:

Most of the time it is L2P. Allies have good chances to win 4v4 on higher skill levels, just not on low.

1.) Thompson:
Deal 50% more damage, receive 50% more damage, move more slowly if I recall correctly. If you manage to actually flank / close the distance you can use this ability to maximize your damage output. Against any non close range unit it will improve the outcome of the fight.
M1919A6:
This one has a suppression fire if I recall correctly. Targets an enemy squad, fires faster (but slightly less accurate) at that and with suppression. Breaks if you issue move commands or press stop.

2.) Breaks suppression for all surrounding infantry units (that also includes non ATG / Howitzer support weapons!) and moves them towards the captain. Additionally it increases movespeed for all affected units for 4 seconds and makes them immune to suppression. Additionally to the additionally it also gives them 20% harder to hit and gives them 20% accuracy for 8 seconds. So in short, it's one of the strongest abilities ingame
3.) Yes, they still have it.
4.) Nope.

USF vehicles are amongst the most cost effective ones. You won't find a better tank destroyer than the Jackson for the price, same for the Sherman or the Scott. They are all vehicles with a high damage output, but none of them are particularly resilient. There is a good synergy with the Riflemen though, as these are some of the toughest infantry and at Vet1 get a vehicle snare (which by now finally is pretty reliable).
Both new factions are far more reliant on combined arms, just in different ways. USF needs a Rifle screen for their low HP, high dmg, high range medium vehicles. OKW needs a diverse infantry selection supplemented by some vehicles for either higher mobility (Puma, Flak HT), heavier hitting (Jagdpanzer IV) or roles that infantry does not fulfil (Sturmtiger, Walking Stuka, King Tiger).
Both factions play very differently from the older ones and requrie the player to adapt to a new playstyle. Trying to use those units in the old factions way (aka spamming only Shermans and rushing in with them) does not work that well as doing the same with PIVs. Even E8 Sherman spam is inferior in most cases to a mix of E8, Jackson and M8A1.

The repair is not to counteract their lower durability or whatever. It's just there as a faction flavor, like OKW has 5 vet levels and the other factions have snipers, mortars and such...

In fact it probably would. Ever play any of the CoH1 mods? They were excellent. And that was from unpaid volunteers with their spare time.

They also fixed the m10 misfire bug, which Relic never ever got around to even though the source of the problem was known and there was a tiny mod that fixed it.

That you can't find allies to play against shows that Relic does a poor job. As far as stats go IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT REALLY MATTERS.

Most mods I played in vCoH were unbalanced as hell until years after release and I tried a lot. They were enjoyable for casual or vs AI play, but never even close to being balanced.

As far as I know the misfire bug is to this day unfixed, because it would require a completely different animation. What most people did was remove the wind-up time. That way it could not happen anymore that it misfires, but the actual animation was no longer in sync with the unit firing. Wind-up and wind-down times are the times that animations take and are not to be changed. I personally would've gone with a broken animation but a working unit, but in the end I can understand that they did not want to break that to fix the gameplay. Lots of people played vCoH due to the looks.

Teamgames are problematic due to the scaling. I brought it up with Relic several times and tried them to change things, but I guess they are too busy with other stuff. *sniff*

I'd say 4v4 you can easily win as Allies as well, you just need a good team composition and coordination. I find games as Allies in 4v4 more stressful, as you have to handle more units and usually units that need more attention. Axis tend to lock down with PaKs and MG42 to a degree, which require little micro. Similarly lategame the heavies and super heavies. Soviets need similar micro lategame, but more earlygame while USF needs less micro early, but more mid / lategame. Jacksons are awesome, P47 is awesome, both easily capable of taking down the heavy Axis tanks. If you do not meet those 'skill' requirements you are going to have a bad time (less now with the P47 'Finger of God' [The true 'Hand of God' was even stronger, this just pities in comparison!]).

ludd3emm - What kind of lag do you experience? Is it a FPS drop or is it units freezing?
First one means the lag is actually due to the performance of your PC.
Second one means it's due to server connection. Using WLan, having a router with a lot of gadgets hooked to it, Noun gnawing on the server cable again, ... there can be many reasons. Speed of your connection alone isn't everything.