You overestimate the value of crews.
Every faction starts with an engineering unit except UKF so you start with one to repair. Unless it dies, you are not paying for a support unit.
Nobody captures with crew because that's a good way to lose your tank. Especially with how buggy crew interactions are with damaged tanks and recrewing. Someone please tell me a way to recrew my damaged tank immediately without switching to repair mode first.
The crew is vulnerable while repairing so many players will likely retreat further back than if engineers were out. In addition, USF is locked out of true heavy vehicles because of their un-crewing perk. They at most will have one crew repairing the tank which takes longer than normal unless you uncrew two vehicles together and micro them to repair together. With engineers, you can have 2 engineers repairing one tank.
Sherman is only 10MP and 10F cheaper than Panzer 4. Panzer 4 has better armour and all purpose ammunition that works well on both tanks and infantry for only 10MP, 10F more, the increased cost is represented in the stats. Different supporting armies behind the tank too. The Sherman radio net works well with other Shermans while Panzer 4 synergizes with Panzer grens. Very hard to compare the two.
You need to stop cherry picking facts. Stein Grenadier made an excellent argument on why Pios do not need a buff. A minor vet decrease perhaps but the same should be made for Royal Engineers as they are both close range support units.
no, crew are very good and carry the faction later in the game
obvs it's vulnerable like all engineers but an advantage they have is the repair critical ability to fix engine damages very quickly, u don't need to retreat further than other eng as they have the same hp and RA , or better at vet 3 which they get to ultra fast
and tell me why is Pershing not a heavy tank ? or do u mean stock ? if so soviet lack a stock heavy tank too, and are still very good late
>only 10mp and 10 fu
it's not a low number it's the fuel for a side grade, and Sherman has an all-purpose munition too, they just have BETTER AI munition too, it's not a downside u know ? btw u forgot the stock smokes shells, the better penetration and most importantly the 0.75 moving accuracy instead of 0.5 which is a lot