very true but after all this is a game so we can slightly ignore some of the historical aspects here speaking of aspects the M26 was in CoH 1 and the US campaign which took place during 1944 and the M26 didn't appear on the ETO until late 1945 but i suppose with british coming into the fold USF do deserve to have a heavy tank of their own i mean the british have the churchill in their arsenal and that was classified as a heavy tank
Heavy tanks arent healthy for the game. They havent been since their existence and still arent, though its been better with the callin limit.
USF vehicle crews can disembark, and abandoned tanks hold no ownership, so technically USF would be able to call in more Pershings.
USF vehicle crews also have crit repair AKA duct tape which is fine for normal USF tanks, but a tank with heavy armor and lots of health that deserves to die because it got close to a gren and got fausted or hit a mine that somehow is able to shake the crit off and roll away is pretty darn stupid.
USF has vehicle disembark and duct tape BECAUSE they have no heavy tank.
In this game, there are "heavy" tanks, and heavy tanks.
"Heavy" tanks are tanks like the KV-1, Churchill, and what i would want for a Sherman Jumbo. They have high armor, significantly higher health than medium tanks, but poor main weapons (as in, they cant just yolo into the enemy and take out a ton of crap. Churchill Crocodile is just better at roasting infantry and AVRE is a special tank like Sturmtiger).
The heavy tanks are the Tiger, IS-2, and King Tiger (potential destruction in that order). They have high armor, high health, and very good main weapons. They require the least skill of any tank to use and rely on the player to ignore building normal stuff and just buy one big tank. Nothing strategic or skillful about that. Anything by its lonesome they destroy, and they require a reasonable army to destroy, except obviously the player who built them still has the rest of their forces to fight with it. They are good all. 1v1's are very different, but the obvious cry for the Pershing comes from team games where USF needs more durable armor.
Giving USF a heavy tank is a lazy solution for a problem that can be solved in a way that improves the game.