Yet they both lose to the panzer 4 in a straight up fight. Lets not forget the pak 40 is easily the best anti-tank gun in the game. The armor balance is in such a weird place. Panzer 4 beats sherman and cromwell in a straight up fight, but I think the cromwell is in a better place in terms of value then the sherman or panzer 4, and the sherman has a niche if I can get one quickly then when the axis armor hits the field I would never build one instead spam jackson, sometimes scott. I said earlier the panzer 4 is not what the axis need. They don't need an mbt that can beat other non-doc mbts. They need one that can fight infantry well. Really I think the ost armor problem can be summed as such, its too focused on fighting other armor and not enough killing infantry. Ost needs to lower their at capabilities and increase their ai abilities.
Its so hard to micro 2 comets or croc with firefly. Kappa
P4 and sherman 1v1 are the same tanks, what shows a 50-50 chances to destruction of each other, but sherman have more speed, can repair himself, have smoke and have AI-rounds. Cromwell have a smoke shell without cooldown and faster veterancy with officier.
Control the one tiger are really easily, than controlling 2+ medium tanks, but its not so important in hight skill games and in current version of a game brits and USF have the same (crock, comets and pershing) heavy armour with the same difficulty to using as a axis tanks.