Profile of keithsboredom

As others stated above, the game is currently broken for axis, especially for OKW which has less options to deal with SOVIET than OST. Welcome to reality.

The asymmetry of the game is supposed to be designed to have the axis player favor an aggressive approach and are "supposed" to have an offensive advantage on players that spend their resources on defensive/static/indirect options. The axis simply lack decent indirect options, which is only exacerbated when the soviets get the best mortar in the game via a call in(no teching required).

I think the games more balanced than its ever been but call-ins will forever result in massive balance issues. There is a reason RTSs were designed with a teching scheme, without it the game needs a better system than the current CPs to limit players simply stalling until they can call in a unit.

I will never understand why call in units don't also have a building requirement.

hmmm i never thought about it before but i bet you can insert custom "movie files" in there for a custom background.

Soviets are currently overpowered. Their base army is balanced but they have a lot of overpowered commanders and call-in units.

Guards slightly over perform.

Shock troopers don't require you to do any creative flanking as with panzergrenadiers and these squads are too powerful in general. You can just bum-rush squad in green cover, even panzergrenadiers/sturmpioniers, and force them to retreat. A grenadier squad or volksgrenadier squad in green cover can be forced to retreat without even killing a shock trooper model in the process. Combine shock troopers with For Mother Russia and there is nothing your opponent can do except just mass retreat and stay in his base for a minute.

Stalling for call-ins is too easy and too rewarding. This puts a very large risk on getting light vehicles as axis because you are going to need all the fuel you can get to counter the extremely potent T34/85s and IS-2s. (this problem of course also exist for Wehrmacht mechanized assault)

PTRS conscripts are extremely broken. You can just blob these units and win. They can't be countered by HMGs, light vehicles can only be used against them if you are Jesulin, and they will wreck AT guns/mortars/leIGs in 1 burst if you have 3~4 PTRS conscript squads. Utterly ridiculous.

Demo charges need to be removed from the soviets. There used to be a time where you needed them to even out the score against superior german infantry, but this time has long gone. Soviets no longer need this crutch; especially with everybody using the powerful soviet commanders 99.99% of the time.

IDK if i'd call them OP but i do believe they are currently the best faction and many of the quoted reasons are why

They're badly designed. Too much DPS that wipes team weapons with no time to react, too little redeeming qualities compared to Obersoldaten. They should be cheaper but need to upgrade for FG42.

THIS

Are we discussing one to one Tank stats or their overall performance in the actual war, because the two are very different. One to one the German tanks were generally better at least compared to American made tanks, however real life is complicated and a myriad of factors, many logistical, play into how a tank performs in war.

Crew Experience
Quality of parts
Reliability of equipment
Availability of parts (i.e. tanks break down, will you have the parts to fix it?)
Availability of fuel and ammunition and its quality
Production capability and cost (i.e. loses will happen, can they be replaced and at what cost?)
Military doctrine(how does the command expect them to be used and were thus were designed for)

Combat statics can also be misleading as they often list hard numbers and fail to take into account the complex realities of large operations (i.e. terrain, offensive, defensive, reasons behind a certain action)

Life and war are complicated, its hard to list stats and causality numbers and get a real idea for how something actually happened. Both sides fought bravely with what they had, often the outcome of a battle was out of the average soldiers hands long before the first shot is even fired.

Discover magazine discussing Shermans and German Armor with the source mostly being "Armored Thunderbolt: The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II"

German steel Quality according this book wasn't as bad as some believe