I want to agree with vindi and I know balance is not perfect on high level of play , but If we further buff axis , we will have big tears from 4v4 players and this will lead only to another sledgehammers and this wont help 1v1 balance either
I'm not really disagreeing with him, but his methodology if flawed.
W/L ratios from and between top 20 will never give accurate balance representation.
Feedback from these players should be taken into account, NOT wins between them as sample size is way too small to represent anything but statistical randomness.
Moreover, any kind of early game change for axis would have to be counter weighted by equally meaningful nerf for the late game as axis tend to start slower, but thanks to incomparably better scaling, end up on top in long games(last nights Barton's OKW vs Jesulin's USF anyone?), unless all the cheeze and abuse known to a man is applied on allied players part just to balance out scaling and armor difference.
On top of that, pretty much always more aggressive player have the lead, because you put the tempo of the game instead of reacting to it and 2 allied armies as well as OKW do exactly that, you don't do what you want, to react to what they do.