United States
Only the 1st and 2nd points have strong merit. The rest are rather subjective and churchills are certainly no KT. Especially in damage output.
But their armor along with their incredible HP pool is worth noting. While the front armor for the churchill is only 240, it is 290 for the AVRE and Croc. However, the former has 1400 health and the latter two only 1080. Mixing them up ingame can highly skew your opinions: the variants will bounce shots, the stock version won't as much.
However, they all have a rear armor of 180. I don't think there's a single unit that has as much rear armor except perhaps KV tanks. As a result, Churchills often become a trap for flanking maneuvers. (Its rear armor is as strong as P4 front armor.) Instead they are much more easily dealt with by head-on brute force, like most post-EFA designs. Ironically, OKW is probably the least equipped to deal with Churchills since all their capable AT is in their flakHQ.
As a result the unit itself does more to dictate your opponent's strategy than your own, which is probably the most consistently frustrating thing about the whole British faction.
Lots of good things in this post, specificailly in the final sentence which is the most frustrating thing about these units.
IIRC the KV-1 does indeed have 180 rear armor.
SAM572
Shadow Link
Relic Entertainment
