Was a very entertaining game to watch, although it wasn't over when it finished imo.
The allied made some mistakes in battle, like not always having his units in cover when he was close and quite often retreated to much of his units when it wasn't needed. The medic station he m8 their was awesome :-)
I don't know about the second kettengrad start from the axis. It feels like the allied can easily overwhelm you with mass riflemen if he pushes you well and continuously.
Yeah the kettens allow you to capture both sides of the map much like a 2 engineer start, and give you alot of idle capping power later on in the game so you don't have to pull combat units off the front. As to the person that said I retreated a bit too much - sometimes I would retreat when there wasn't a fight and I knew I had time to heal riflemen and rangers for the next fight.