Not really Easy8 will beat a OKW easily.
It has equally good armor, more HP, crew, smoke launcher and superior AT gun +3 mgs and the pintle is superior to that of the Panther. The unit is fine for its cost.
I would trade panzer H for a easy clone in heart beat.
"and superior AT gun"
So superior that it hardly penetrates the panther. Especially if the panther has 1 vet with increased armor. Once I attacked a panther with three E8s, and all three shots did not penetrate. The USF has only Jackson, and then it is useless against Ferdinand and Jagdtiger. Just don’t start talking about the flank, because game situations are very different, and in 2x2 mode it’s sometimes impossible to flank. Use hvap? And so, can I stand and calmly shoot at Ferdinand? Jackson does not have enough time and ammunition every time to simply frighten away Ferdinand or Jagdtiger. But that's another topic.
We talked about the 76mm Sherman, and I see many people think so of him as a strange tank. Replacing 76mm with E8 or even M10 would be more reasonable for a mechanized doctrine. No one needs this tank. It is needed by those who had bad tanks, and this is the Soviets . (I'm talking about reality, but they are good in coh2)
By the way. If we say that the T34 was a bad tank, it is almost a crime in Russia. Never say that there.