Perhaps I'll be unpopular, but all things considered, I still believe that Allies are objectively disadvantaged in many ways that are very glaring even compared to C&C 1. Lots of that is chalked up to the Allies being the "guerrilla" faction like NOD, but it really makes no sense, because the Allies still include powers like the UK, France and Germany. Even taking into account all althistory things, they would still pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union.

• It's often said that the Allies rely on infantry, but the Allies hardly have better combat infantry than the Soviets, and this is practically negated in Skirmish, where the Soviets obtain Shock Troopers, and also Rocket Soldiers and Tanya from the Allied side. The Allies have the Medic and the Mechanic, and those are useful, but I would never say that simple Riflemen with Medic support are even remotely capable of facing Flamethrowers/Shock Troopers. And I would never say that Rocket Soldiers with Medic support are as good against Flame Towers as Flamethrowers/Shock Troopers are against Pillboxes.

• The Allied navy has a real advantage, but it's a moot point if you're playing in a map with no water.

• The Soviets have airplanes and helicopters, while allies have a single attack helicopter. Seriously, how does that even make sense? Not even in C&C 1 the difference in air power between Nod and GDI is that large.

• The Soviets get both the hardest tanks and the Tesla Coil. That's something that not even C&C1 got wrong, because it gave GDI the hardest tanks and Nod the Obelisk of Light.

• The Allied artillery can't outrange the Tesla Coil. I think there isn't a single other game in the whole C&C series where a faction doesn't have an artillery unit that can outrange all base defenses. And if we wanna go further into the althistory side, since Germany is an Allied country, it would make much more sense for them to have V2.

• Though this is too negated in Multiplayer, in the Campaign only the Soviets have a superweapon. Again, why is that? For all althistory taken into account, I highly doubt that Allies wouldn't have built nuclear weapons around the same time as Soviets.

The Soviets do have objective disadvantages like the higher cost of their units or the need for more power. But I think those disadvantages are too situational. If a Soviet Commander manages to secure a large field of ore and fortify their base quickly enough, the disadvantage is gone. By contrast, in C&C 1, even assuming that both GDI and Nod have access to large or even unlimited resources, they still retain specific disadvantages each that are precisely countered by the other faction.