Withiout getting into the specifics, allies are known as early game unit spammers and high techo doctrine, but none of these perks end up playing a significante role in the hands of a slightly experienced player

-25% research cost/time: there's no doubt that fast/cheap research is useful, but ir we take into account that with the other doctrines you can still have high lvl units without any issue if you know what you need, it ends up being a somewhat "weak" strength

-20% upgrade cost/time: fast upgrades are handy, but in reality it just cut a few minutes. The main strength of this perk is that you save some resources wich is really useful, but having 80% of the cost compared to other doctrines is not a strength, after all you are not upgrading units constantly

-30% unit production time: this is the main strength of the doctrine, you can create a Big army in less time than your enemy, to put this into perspective, in the same time other doctrines create 7 units, you create 10. But the downside is that most of the time this perk is useless because the economy usually is not that big to be able to spam units, a 30% faster production needs a 30% bigger economy, wich is huge, so you end up using this perk only in the first ~5 days

-10% movement speed: speed is the most underrated quality in this Game (in my opinion) because call of war is a tactic-based Game, there's not much room for strategy. A 10% speed reduction may not seem big, but being slower means that you are not likely yo catch a retrating enemy, and that your enemy can catch you easily. Another issue with this is that you can spend less time expanding because you need extra time to get from A to B, wich reduces your nations size, wich reduces the potential to have a Big economy (an issue if your main strength requires Big economies)

To put this into perspective:
- Research cost/time bonus: really useful, but if you know what you need you don't really use it
- Upgrade cost/time bonus: the time reduction is useful un theory, but in reality is just a few minutes. The cost reduction is useful and You Will save some resources but nothing that makes a difference big enough to be a strength
- Production time reduction: Strong in the first few days, useless after 5-7 days, the daily cost of producing units non-stop is impossible to keep up
- Reduction in movement speed: a weakness that looks small but it isn't

I think this doctrine needs a buff, maybe not big, but the strengths aren't as big as the weaknesses. Maybe replacing Upgrade cost/time reduction with a slight buff to the economy by increasing resources production in industries (+5-10%) or by reducing unit production cost (-5-10%) wich shouldn't be Big to not have the same advantages as communists, but this doctrine needs to be able to use it's bonus (production time reduction) yo be able to overcome it's weakness

Recruitment centers aren't the issue per se, te problem is resources production overall, even if you have lvl 5 industries in all of your core cities, if you have less than 200-250 victory points (the logic of more VP, more provinces, and thus more resources) you can't keep up


It's true that some units are better in allied doctrine (tact bombers, strat bombers, destroyers, etc), but every doctrine has it's buffed units.
You have to make a difference between tactics oriented doctrines like axis and allied, and strategic oriented doctrines like pan asian and comintern. The last two aren't weak, they get their strength by having a strategical advantages, pan asians are fast and can expand extremely quick, and thus, get a strategical advantage by controlling large territories and having Big economies because of that. On the other side, comintern is a weak head-to-head doctrine but they have cheap units and can have HUGE armies, let a comintern player increase the size of the army and you Will be facing an army that's twice as big as yours

I agree with that, maybe if strat bombers get buffed range allied would be a more viable option, because even if they have better range than other doctrines, it's still pretty low. Maybe if allies get a bigger buff in strat's range they would be stronger because you can destroy your opponent's economy and factories

That's true but you rarely can do that, even if it is common you can just save 2-3k of a resource per factory

Well, as i said a few comments ago, allies have a big weakness wich is speed, it doesn't seem much of a deal but it's quite significant.
- 10% reduction in speed after a day isn't mucho, but after 10 days is like losing a full day of movement and for an active player who is always on the move is meaningfull
- Because you are slow, not using horizontal warfare is dangerous because one of your units can get trapped easily in enemy territory and get weakened until gets destroyed, this isn't usual against inactive players, but it is agains active or experienced players
- The same as before but the other way around, being the slowest means that catching enemies is unlikely unless you use the air force

Strategical dis/advantages are more difficult to see than tactical dis/advantages, it's easy to know that axis nations get an advantage because they hit hard, but it's more difficult to see the strategical advantage of pan asian with +20% speed. This is the casé with allies, you start yo notice the weakness in the long run
Yeah but i think that in that case they are not worth it, lvl 1 air bases have 20HP and even with lvl 2-3 tactical bombers you can destroy them pretty easily, and thus, you don't even need strats. And it's extremely uncommon to see air bases of lvl 2 or more in provinces or non-core cities