With the risk of being pummeled to death by some of our forum regulars, I will question that last conclusion.
I sometimes am having a hard time trying to find feedback that isn't jumping a 'Germans are OP' bandwagon. Don't get me wrong; I'm reading most of it and take these comments as seriously as I can, but here is my problem:
I don't know why, I don't know how, but in my gaming hours so far I did not experience the German team as being the dominant team. I'm not sure why some of you have a different experience, but in the (european) servers I frequent (and i mix and match) I've seen many Allied victories on very different maps, maps that are said to be biased toward the Germans.
I just came from a totally Russian dominated Station (2 victories, Germans didn't get past the 2nd objective even). I've seen so many wins on PavlovsHouse, as gimped as it was, where Russians win twice in a row by pushing the Axis team back to their last spawn. On RedOctoberFactory I've seen many wins by the Allied team, just like tonight, capturing up to the last objective, and I could go on and on and on. Even on Commissarshouse, which can be extremely unforgiving for the Russian team in the first 10 minutes, I've witnessed plenty Russian victories on it when the Russian team actually made an intelligent effort. And by that I only mean have a half decent commander, use squad leaders and actually use the T34's. But that map does have issues that are being adressed. As is Pavlovs, which is funny, because [TW]Ohnein preceived it as balanced towards the germans, and I have yet to see a german win on it today!
I've also seen many T34's being evenly matched opponents to P4's on combined arms maps. Seen P4's being oneshotted plenty of times. I've seen T34's that seemed indestructable. I've even taken on 2 P4's by myself alone in a T34 and be successful at it. Granted the T34 has weaker turret armor, but it is not gimped to the point where it's impossible to smack P4's in the balls.
I've seen many Mkb wielding Germans get owned in the face. It is not a super weapon. Seriously. It isn't.
I've taken on many SMG wielding German opponents with a Mosin Nagant rifle and come out victorious, taking second place on the winning Russian team. And not because I killed almost as much Germans as number one, but because I killed smartly, went in to help capturing the objectives when it mattered, picked up a stray smg from a dead body when I knew I was going in close quarters frenzy style and accumulated dozens of team points next to my kills on Germans.
I'm not saying there are no balance issues, there are. I'm not saying the Russians never get pummeled by the Germans. I know it happens, I've been there. But you can see my problem when I am not constantly bulldozed by the German team as a Russian and see very simular things happen for both sides.
The Germans may have the upper hand on paper, but I yet have to see it unbalance our game as a whole.
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Post scriptum
And you know whats funny? I think this bandwagon is exactly what the biased assumptions are about the eastern front: The Germans are the almighty superweapon wielding badass Tiger aces pouring death and destruction on the poorly equipped and unorganized Russian Army, owning them all the way to Stalingrad. Guess what happened next...
Oh PS: Yes that last bit was a joke.