This isn't a proposal to balance the Churchill.
This is a request to totally replace it with a completely different unit with a completely different role because you don't like the fact a meatshield unit exists.
Besides which, the brits already have a command tank commander doctrinal ability. They don't need a weird command tank in hammer overlapping with it.
We are in the COH2 Balance root thread. So any thread from now on has concern about balance.
Actually it is not me who dislikes the brick tank design, IIRC a couple patches ago, KV1 was useless because it was a "XP sponge" and now we are talking that they are somewhere in between proper heavy tanks and XP bricks. Somewhere between a low skill useless tank and a high skill rewarding tool.
As far as i am concered, i like good game variety and mechanics. If you want to keep the churchill as it is, its gun is overperfoming for what a sponge tank is.
It also does not deserve to have free out of jail smoke, for the same reasons panzer tactician ruins tank gameplay.
The commander was a suggestion to give heavy tanks a unique role, as churchills also are field presence tanks, i was fit to suggest that idea.
Brits are no longer a UP faction, forgotten in a dark corner anymore, to have half i-win-button tanks, half unreasonably tough survival nondoc tank hybrid, even for UKF fanbois standards. As i said earlier its a noob tank, upgun it and it will become the apocalypse tank from RA2