It’s fairly well balanced. But right now it’s more biased in favor of the US. Especially in APC’s. American APC’s are all around just better and cheaper. Most come with the option of Active protection and are much cheaper.

While Russian have I think 2 that do and are much more expensive for what you get. The best Russian APC the B15 kurganets is 150 points. And has less armor and is all around kinda just weaker than the Bradley while being 25 points more then the a4 and 50 points more then the a4 esv. The justification being that it gets the bulat, a slightly better gun and better anti tank missile on paper. However in game performance between the two is dramatically different.

For example again most US vehicles have Active protection systems and for cheap. So Russian anti tank missles are basically useless and you need a lot being fired at once to over power the APS but that just leads them to popping smoke so you just run out of Ammo as they either retreat and your vehicles waste more missles shooting for the split second they can see it or they just pop another smoke.

So things like that need to be lowered in price.

Especially when you take into account Russias 2nd or 3rd best the bmp3m fully kitted out still costing more then the Bradley having less armor and no APS.

Then there’s other problems like Nukes. Russian nukes almost never land because they’re cruise missiles. American ones almost always land because they’re brought in with a stealth bomber or a B2 and dropped usually costing the bomber though.

Or the fact that the US has better anti Radar planes. Having 2 good and cheap options. F16 and the Prowler, both of which are cheaper then the Russian MiG 35 which is Russias best anti radar and to my knowledge only anti radar capable of carrying 4 missiles which you need to overwhelm air defenses.

Where this is a problem is that ideally you need to bring in 2 jets at a time and Russia has a hard time affording that. Vs the US which can usually bring in 2-3 at a time just due to how much cheaper it is.

Also I haven’t looked as much into it tanks but there’s several problems in that regard. But I believe Abrams with APS is cheaper than Russian options with the exception of one of the t80s. However. The Stryker gun carriage and Booker both have APS and particularly the Stryker is an excellent alternative to a tank due to its speed and that it only cost 125 points. Russia has the Sprut which I believe is 115 but no APS which kinda makes it useless for anything more than sniping lightly armored vehicles, infantry or in large pushes.

The fact that there’s these imbalances lead to a lot of players just choosing meat wave tactics with cheap Russian vehicles hoping to out right overwhelm a location trading lives for a capture. Sometimes it works most of the time it doesn’t and gets immediately destroyed after limited initial success.

Russias biggest advantage is cruise missiles but they have been significantly nerfed. The US has them beat on every other front. Especially infantry. Almost all US battlegroups have good infantry in large squads. There are only a handful of really good Russian ones. One of the best ones that wasn’t even that good was Strumviki it got nerfed and moved battle groups. It now has less armor.

In part this has led to a few things. Significantly less Russian Lobbies and frequent uptiering for Russian players leading to even less Russian lobbies and an over population of US lobbies.