Well, giving IS a bren is a bren given to your opponent so you know, not the best idea. They drop even more than guards. It is far better to give lmgs to sappers and here is sth you can call a problem in team games.
And that's something they need to fix, spamming half a dozen Engineers should not be a replacement for Infantry.
Coh was originally designed as a game where all factions were balanced across all moments of the game. That is the best way to balance factions with wildly different unit compositions.
Huh? vCoH was all about the Americans early game advantage into the Wehrmacht late game advantage. Then OPF came out and we got the British with their weak early and strong late, and Panzer Elite which was a really weird faction and their advantages depended on what you unlocked.
As for Hans stream yesterday, how about that single Pack Howitzer winning the game by suppressing Hans entire advance with a couple shells? Pack Howitzer / ISG suppression is still bullshit, Relic still refuses to remove it for some reason.