" .........Why shouldn't they have a heavy tank for late game team games" because axis don't have non-doc 60 range high pen TD's hence why they struggle more vs heavy tanks.
No worries about misunderstanding friend. Considering your post:
JP4 with 60 range from OKW is more than enough to deal with Pershing.
Considering the Pershing itself. You keep saying "The best AI" but not saying best by how much. Unless this is athletics and winning by 0.01 seconds is still considered a gold medal and the silver person won't be remembered much... the Pershing, having slightly (minimal advantage) better AI doesn't justify lower HP, frontal/rear armour, bad ROF, pretty much useless ability, whilst costing 230 fuel. It USED to have the best AI by a larger margin that scared away blobs. Right now it's lackluster in every compartment.
OKW can easily counter Pershing with raketen and JP4.
OST can easily counter it with pak40 and 2x stugs.
OST doesn't have 60 range TD because they have the fast firing, high penetrating pak40 which fits much better in the OST defensive idea. And stugs are cheap, easily vet and fire really fast. Vs Pershing, that's more than enough.
Of course, you have the Panther TD which counters Pershing hard with superior range and agility on both axis teams.
As in countless other posts, allies have 60 range TDs because Axis has non doctrinally the following tanks: Panther (960hp, 260 armour, great agility), King Tiger, Brummbar (800 hp, 260 armour, bad agility), JP4 (230 armour, lowest target size, also 60 range). On top of that you have plenty of doctrines with Tiger VI heavy tank. Don't know the exact number of doctrines but both OKW and OST have it in more than 3 I believe. Pershing is in only one doctrine, IS-2 in 2.
Not gonna talk about ISU152/elefant/jagdtiger since it's a special kind of tank. This thread is not about 60 range TDs so I would hope this is the last post arguing ally 60 range TDs justify lackluster stats of Pershing.