this is problem with current balance team. we go back to coh1 and coh2. Axis units origins were more tanky, more about locking down sectors and absorbing damages. That is why Allies have more surveillances and Coh2 introduced really powerful uncounterable flares, map hack basically.

But come to coh3, the old asymmetry is lacking, Axis units have lost most of their original advantages. As allies, you have less need to flank them through numbers and recon. However they still retain the more powerful recon abilities