Believe me i've been confused between game discription and faction design too
But those T-34,Sherman,cromwell they do capable taking down of axis tank but once we do that there is many RNG there which provide many result of engagement. We might heard that P4 sometime missed a shot or failed to pen even it was T-34 a lot. Push both units and let them engage toe to toe and we probably see sherman sometime won agains P4.
Even top player treat all these medium tank in a same way they getting vet by shoot each other and gain vet as fast as possible till they think it's good enough to take down opponent tank and yes it is possible to fight again frontal armor which it's seem like it dont suppose to work that way but by the time P4 come sherman should have vet 2 already
How do we suppose to take down P4 with sherman ? I think we can get the best answer by asking Soviet player how do they take down P4 by T-34/76 do they use snare ? mine ? or flanking which sherman are good at it
PS. If there is any insulting words in my sentence please do remind me. I didn't mean it
and....Easy 8 still worth to pick it agains AI. They dont use much cover and dont know how to use target priority or easy way is you can just move E8 to a commander you prefer to play
you made one mistake soviets have 5 or 4 commanders with the t 34 85 and one commander with the sherman
76mm gun so they can counter p4 really easy even with SU 85 and even if a USF player takes E8 then he will still lack heavy armor heavy soldirs heavy arty and revural mines