I constantly see quite disbalanced teams and quite evident always in Normandy campaign where Axis is always very gold and allies only few. Also in Tunisia this is quite evident but no so often as in Normandy.
Just basically looking at players in beginning of match you can quite easily tell if the match is won or lost.
1: Ranks mean almost nothing aside from hey this guy plays the game
2: It all comes down really to when you get on and what the snail slams you into. I personally find most of my games being favored for me, with maybe 1-3 challenging enemies that have a tank I struggle to pen or know what they’re doing when attacking / defending.
Axis is just Op in Normandy which is why they have gold and allies are stuck on nothing. I don’t even bother with the stacked gold because most of allies are usually private rank. Even then when allies have a few gold they just leave.
I think a lot of the problem personally is regional and time zone based.
In NA , evening time (call it 8pm EST) you can’t buy a win as Axis.
There are some really good pilots on maps that heavily favor overwhelming airpower and grey zone tanks. And with a majority of players on the Allied side playing, you are usually outnumbered by humans 2 to 1 or 3 to 1.
A swap to Europe Servers and the exact opposite is true where the Axis are a demonic steamroller of doom.
There is no balanced or even thoughtful matchmaking. Which keeps causing threads like this to appear.