The ALlies are supposed to have the advantage in numbers, especially tanks such as Sherman and T34. However, the state of the game and 4v4 basically nullifies this theoretical advantage.
WTF are you all ranting about ?!? Is it possible that half of this forum is literally delusional ?
I'm not that much of a terrible player, (I played vCoH and CoH2 since it's release) yet my W/L ratio in 4vs4 is always bit below 50%. Allies actually DO HAVE blatant advantage in numbers ! I've lost many games against obviously better skilled, better coordinated teams, but also the average teams, since Axis fan club is obviously far more populated with sorta 'noobs', than the Allied side. Which is statistically logical 90% of players searching as Axis give you far more unpredictability than 10%. I've seen plenty of situations where even holding the both fuel for half an hour didn't help, when blob of T34/85, or E8 drove through the map, and destroyed everything of that "superior" german origin.. How did they manage to build 10 tanks, while OH and OKW are still scratching with Pumas and light vehicles, saving for one miserable Panther !??
Balance while obviously never perfect - is actually quite ok, the problem on the other hand is that, for it's cool factor, 90% of ordinary folk prefers Axis, and in order to get the game goin' more mature, experienced, all round players pick allies, and they Win. Maybe it's whole different world in the top 50 players realm, but if you start nerfing Axis on account of that "fictional" top shelf balance, soon you're gonna start losing the vast majority of average, casual players that actually make the most of the paying customers.