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So now you have the tanks, but would it have really had an impact? When considering the numbers of the pz V, VIa and VIb deployed, a basic side to side comparison might suggest a more positive outcome for the allies, however this hypothesis must be qualified by the understandimg of not only the Germans deployment, but their tactical usage as well.
Given the tactical situation, with the German tankers fighting defensively in positions of good cover, the British ( and US tankers too)will take heavy losses. With heavier tanks the losses might well be lighter, but they will still be there.
The fact will remain that a 75 L70 or either of the 88s will make short work of any allied tank that is targeted at shorter range.
The only difference will be that the exchange rate will drop from the oft used 4:1 to a somewhat more allowable 2 to 3:1. Given the nature of the terrain and the tactical abilities of the German tankers, the allied losses will still be a net loss in comparison ... and these better tade-offs only coming available if the opposing heavy tanks are in a location whereby they might engage.
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Methinks that we too many times reckon that Germans have a Tank A, so Allies need to have the Tank B to counter it. Thus the other threats and targets are forgotten - AT guns, infantry under cover or dug-up, pillboxes, StuG and the like, Marders and the like, Bazookas & Panzerfausts etc. The 7.5cm Pak will have a field day with Crusaders, Cromwels, Centaurs, Challengers etc, and that Pak (along with the L48 7.5cm on the Pz-IV) is a most numerous gun threat in 1943-45.
Thus the 'Churchill plus' is a big addition to the Allied war effort - it will do the missions, and suffer far lower casualties than other contemporary British tanks in the process. Cruiser tanks, until the Centurion (that probably merged the two cattegories into one) will not be able to do it.