I just watched this battle... You only had a little over half the map which is why you never got a significant popcap advantage. It's based on % of the sectors you owned. You had 13 sectors, and they had like 10. That's 55% and 45% respectively.
And this makes either side push how?
So i guess every time we play defensive we should just push out to the middle, turtle down and wait an hour. And every time we attack we should just push out to the middle... wait for the 37 pop cap and them push with 2 panthers 1 tiger 1 stug.
Lets say we push to like %25-%75 so we are way up on pop... by that time i we control most of the map the battle is already over! At least with CP there was a timer that made you feel like you really needed to take territory.