Best allied tank general

This is an American M6 heavy tank.
I rode from Rokki to kv6 in the Kursk battle. Impressive my poor Monty is also not bad at kv6, but this is a pale copy.

I want to make sure I have my math right on some of these commanders:
Patton's dmg is +20 base, +30% against special units, +3 mobil
Monty +20 base, +2 mobil
Rokossovsky +15 base, +24% against armor, +2 mobil
Vatutin is +32 base, +12% against armor, +0 mobil
Timoshenko +21 base, +6 in snow, +1 mobil

I opened Battle of Kursk and looked at the reinforcements for these numbers (My Kv-6 is at lvl II; +10 att, +2 mobility):

A heavy w/KV-6 runs 53-63 dmg;
Patton= 73-83; 94-107 vs special
Monty= 73-83
Rossy= 68-78; 84-96 vs armor
Vatutin = 85-95; 95-106 vs armor
Timo = 74-84; 80-90 in snow

Those numbers change based on terrain, exp, etc., but at least it is a baseline - I think.

So my thoughts; Timoshenko is not a bad free general. He is pretty good. He might be the weakest of these five, but I put him in here to show that the gap isn't that massive in damage output, especially in the '41 east campaign.

I would probably rank these generals as (1) Patton - high base damage, better than others on non-heavies, wrecks special units; (2)& (3) depends on how much you value speed. I think I would go Vatutin over Rossy because Vatutin's raw damage output is just that high and he gets +2 speed from the KV-6, but I get it if you need the extra movement from Rossy. (4) Monty is a poor choice on the Kv-6 compared to the rest, he either needs to sit on a factory and defend, or be a fast moving attacker and use his air skill (which is hard because air attacks cost quite a bit of money, which drains money to replenish Monty...).

Finally, Manstein is +40 damage, so 93-103 dmg; plus boosts other armor. Given his blitz skill, I would put him in a regular tank to passively boost damage from Vatutin or Rossy in a KV-6.

Based on the previous ET games, bonus damage from general's stat (e.g. 3 stars in tank) is added to the attack stat showed in the information but the flat damage from skills (e.g. Tide of Iron) is not included in the attack stat, but will be later added when the actual damage is calculated. From what I have observed so far, this kind of thing is likely to be the same in GoG3. So this means tank generals with Tide of Iron (like Vatutin) will deal more damage than the number that appears on the information sheet. 

And, yes, Timo is a decent tank general. 

It looks like we have an unobvious leader. Vatutin is the best choice in terms of damage / medal ratio. Deals the same damage as Patton, costs only 720 medals and is available 1 company earlier. Lack of mobility is not so critical. Tanks have higher mobility compared to artillery and infantry.

It is probably a case of the old "minors use random obscure vehicle sprites" they did in the past games. That is indeed an American M6, which was the predecessor to the "actual" US heavy in-game, the T29
M6 was actually adopted (only by the US and in small numbers), hence the "M" in "M6". "T" was a test designation, because those that did testing and those that procured had a different standard for nomenclature.

Patton damage is undeniably weak but like almost every generals who doesn't have ToI will also have smiliar damage to Patton so yeah,also Machinist is pretty bad since you will recruit more than you heal by replenish

it's a  standard skin for non alligned country,since India is a "non alligned" country even though it isn't, it have standard skin