Hm, i often play the Russian (becouse of i'm russian ) and i can't say that Russia is underpowered. Yes, i have some objections about russian equipment and weapon, but i often play Russian Ground Forces versus US\UA. Sometimes i win the US, sometimes my company tactical group (we usually play the company-level of the game) is broken. If you play the Russian, you can't use the same methods and tactic as if you play the US, Russian Army has its own means, tactic and weapon. And usually i use only real russian units - T-72B3 (sometimes T-90A), BTR-82A and BMP-3\BMP-3M, and i use them without APS. The only thing, what i do i use the same level of experiense and motivation for russian and our rivals, but i use different leadership(-1 for russian and from -2 till +1 for UA and +2 for US). And i use APC for my rivals, yes, i like when my foes have advantages.
Now, i want to tell about what i consider as wrongs in the game, and that is really strange:
First. RPO is useless. I'm wondering that RPO, special equipment, is completely worthless as anti-infantry weapon. American AT4 or soviet RPG, let alone Javelin are much more useable against infantry rather than RPO. It's crazy and i count it as great mistake. It must be fixed.
Second. All american armor units have ERA. Really? Are you seriuosly? I want to have a choise - Abrams, Bradly and Stryker have ERA or don't have it. Futher, i don't understand why american units are not devided according to their models. Abrams, that we have in the game is not M1A2 SEP v3. Now, it is something similar, but not enough. It would be great, if we could chose between M1A2 SEP v2 or SEP v3, to have TUSK or not to have it, and etc.
Third. Modern (modern, i mean units that are in service) russian and ukrainian weapon and equipment are not added in the game - russian RPG-30 (special RPG against APS, some amount are in service in the parts of SMD), MANPANDS VERBA, modern models of RPO, modern russian KAMAZ-5350 and URAL-63095, Tigr with KORNET and ARBALET-DM, new russian UAV; ukrainian T-64B1 (thar were intended for Kongo), BTR-3, HMMWV with DSHKM, DSHKM as support team, BMP-1U, ukrainians models of KrAZ, ukrainian UAV.
Fourth. Why russian and ukrainian forces haven't company tactical groups? As i wrote, i usually play a company versus a company, and in real life russian and ukrainian use it formations (HQ squad, 3 rifle platoons, one tank platoon, mortar platoon, grenade launcher platoon, sapper platoon, air defence squad with MANPAD and air defence squad with SPAAG, artillery battery). And the best thing would be if we could chose the structure of military formations. I want to add a recon platoon in my company directly, for example.
Fifth. BT have to do something with tanks rounds, that penetrate two standing near tanks by one shell. Sometimes i lose two tanks due to one round of Abrams or T-90A.
Yes, i speak english very bad, i know, so thanks for your reading.