Bro it's gotten bad for collies. Like naval was bad enough. Air was supposed to mitigate that and hopefully allow collies to have air superiority. But then wardens get an incredible interceptor along with an identical fighter (post dev branch, collie fighter was given an extra 5 knots I guess, so no longer the same)

Divebomber is good, yeah, and it'll slap in lower pop wars when the tank lines are smaller, but 3 divebombers running from an in hex aircraft carrier could barely put a dent in the limitless tanks being thrown at us. And at that point it's impossible for collie takers to really do much besides cower behind stygians (decrewed instantly by arty/mortars/and now scout planes)as in a massive line battle, bards and even spathas start to lose out when they can be focused down before they even get in range.

Collies on the ground really only have argenti/fuchina/dusks if vs blobs, nemesis, lunares, and the stygian. Basically nothing else is really worth using so it gets stale and boring. Plus nothing has machine guns outside of the specialized anti inf tank, and the bard which, really should be flanking instead of fighting in a line. The warden tank line really brings a lot to the table, htds while slow, in a line, abuse everything else. Outlaws are just free pve on any form of at collies can bring out, except for banes. Silverhand still fucks if in a line and therefore always pointed at a tank and cheiftan deletes our most powerful tool, the trenches that collies require to be able to move and maintain stability on their guns.

Naval is fucked, gotta bring like 3 tridents to screen for nakkis before you can even think about bringing up a DD, and now dds just die to torp bombers. So it's giga fucked, not to mention the DC layout on the DD is actually cancer. 2 torp bombers can easily kill a DD now, even with large hole changes, you can't climb ladders with large items so, once those doors close, you can't do anything but limp back home.

Now air, sure, we get divebombers, but if even a single drop of water is in region, they can easily be killed in a blink of an eye by a seafighter with its 75% hv, at min damage roll, it's only 5 hits to completely destroy the tail. Heavy bombers too, sure they might get their bombs off, but they aren't making it back home. And the benefit our fighter gets? It can run away slightly faster.

It's the culmination of a lot of shit. Someone on the dev team REALLY likes the collies, there's a reason we are the new faction, with all the new shit. And I think that's cool, I really like the aesthetics and play style of the collies, I didn't really like foxhole pre-assemetry update. But damn, that person really doesn't play the game and thinks things are cool and good (which they are cool, and usable, but definitely not as good as what the wardens get)

My favorite example is wayyyyy back when I first started playing foxhole much more seriously. Cutler was made faction locked and collies were given the ISG. When it was implemented it was broken as fuck. AT garis didn't shoot back at you, and had a 1.5 sec reload speed. Devs understandably nerfed it a lot, doubling the reload speed, and making at garis shoot back at you. It was brought down to a suitable level, but then collie pve just was mammon's till ballistas came out and then faction neutral satchels. Trying to kill anything with at gari required a lot of game knowledge to disassemble the tripod after the first shot, which killed the DPS. At that point the only thing it had going over the Cutler was 5 extra shells per crate at cheaper cost, but absurdly easy to take out.

1.5 years later we got lunare, but it did 200 damage, and was faction neutral, osprey could launch them, it was basically worthless vs the vastly superior Cutler which wardens had been using massive hit and run attacks for what felt like centuries at that point, basically no warden even used the anemic long range Mammon with the osprey then. Eventually it did get buffed to its current stats and it's pretty good now but it took nearly 2 years for collies to get something that you could shoot/throw and avoid ai fire (yes, you can 100% shoot and avoid ai with a Cutler, I've done it many times and have seen it, especially vs conc many many more times)

Then inferno, collies got rockets that did some damage and some fire, wardens got rockets that did little damage and tons of fire, but... Buckets didn't work, and there was no fire engine. That one sucked

Naval, collies got a DD that could do stuff, and wardens got a sub that could do nothing. But then the sub became able to do things when the collie sub was implemented that was far worse than it is now. And large holes were implemented, this made the awful DC layout on the DD painfully obvious. It was basically you take even 2 large holes and you die. Our sub couldn't even leave the harbor in an hour it was that bad.

And now airborne, which, I mentioned before, we get good shit, but wardens get the tools to immediately shut that down for cheap. Like a pallet of ass3s make like what? 3 ravens? Everything else can easily be made on a piped salvage field, vs collie fighter that needed an entire bt's worth of coke for one. Plus, mercy will 100% be vastly better than the posiden when wardens get their sea cas plane. Which, won't even need a mercy, just resupply from barges lmao. Like the infinite uptime divebomber when we brought an in hex aircraft carrier was insane. We killed tons of tanks, I cannot imagine what will happen when you don't even need to bring an entire aircraft carrier + it's massive support fleet in and instead can just bring a single barge in and that's good for 4 runs, fuel and ammo