IS-2 (1944) clearly had modifications to additional armor, but where did the track boards go?

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As you can see, where are my extra 30mm tracks?

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Don’t forget the Sherman. It’s clear the devs are heavily biased toward the Axis when it comes to protection. With 4G and side skirts, it can withstand shots from most Allied BR3 tanks.

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If side skirts (5mm armour) are causing you to not penetrate the flank of a 4G (30mm armour), then it’s not the sideskirts that are the problem!!!

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Translator issue: The CIA did not provide sufficient funding for debugging, correct to frontal armor + track plates.

The screens create problems when shooting with at guns because of them, bullets do not penetrate armor, even the one behind the tracks.

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Yeah right, they fixed SU-9 drifting in a week.
Meanwhile all FW-190 are still drifting in the air and it has been the case for years.

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I think all players noticed IS-2(1944)extra 30mm tracks got stolen from the start of the Enlisted game
And devs do not respond to that for a long time…
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Even not like STZ was sold in the gold card shop(extra track :shield: ver for IS-2(1944) or sherman series)
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Similar to my post: :arrow_down:

Finally we see one post from you ,a famous CC at Bili
Let’s see if Dev still ignores this.

No, that is not hte case with anything at BR3 - with anti-tank rifles yes, but not with 75-76mm guns!!

If you put track armor in a position where it’s likely that shells will be coming at a 90* angle towards your armor, it will be more effective due to there simply being more material there for the shell through.
With slopes it gets a little more complicated. Tracks are not made from armor, the steel that makes up armor plate and tracks are two completely different things, and tracks are a much softer type of steel. This means that on a slope, like the front plate of a T-34 or a Sherman for example when you put soft tracks there it can lead to excessive shell normalization.
Shell normalization is a term where, due to some physics that I don’t quite entirely understand, the softer armor can cause the round to point towards your sloped armor instead of ricocheting or anything like you want to.
Meaning that because you put soft track steel instead of armor plate on the front, the shell is now pointing directly towards your armor plate, meaning the designed slope angle of the tank is completely ineffective, while not having lost a lot of energy due to the tracks once again not being actual armor plate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/kqf5ng/track_armor/

in layman´s terms, tracks armour are a nerf unless they are applied to 90° of armour.

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It is
You don’t angle with IS-2
So adding track there is just 30mm of extra armor

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Yeah and G-14 is missing its bombs Axis planes have less bomb then allies all the time are given some strange payloads I willing to give the Soviets IS-3 if I can get second bomb for the Jabo and bombs for premium and normal G-14 and attacker plane with rockets and bombs …

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here is not angled armour to compare:

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pandora´s box to E-100 and Jagdtiger.
Its actually Axis mains that should be begging for IS-3 because they will win far more with that.

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I’m absolutely against doom turtles but if its gonna give me good payloads cuz thats the thing I hate about Axis planes lack of bombs this G-14 should be having its bomb …

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30 degree of angle doesn’t ricochet, so it have nothing to do with shell normalization

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bf-109 K-4 was fixed after we asked for it so a few suggestions would help.

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Doest have to, its impact angle is still worse after shell normalization thus decreasing effective armour.
I really dont care, go ahead and nerf IS-2 for that 15mm more armour with massive effective armour loss, but I warned you guys.

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Buff jdpz IV! remove tracks!
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tracks are copium, they only help stopping HEATs so bazooka, panzerfaust, PIAT, but against AP shells they are useless.

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