Hey y’all I run the IS-2 and it is a heap of garbage. It doesn’t matter what you get hit by or where the 120mm front armor gets shattered by almost every tank while it’s 122mm gun does almost nothing against most vehicles including the German APCs. Anyone else having similar experiences?
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are you shooting APHE or HE at the APCS?
a) U dont drive the vehicle forwards, u drive it backwards, where its sloped 100mm angled acts like 150-200mm. Than pens only damage radiator or tracks, only after transmission, only after engine + maybe crew/ammo last. Driving forwards just instantly ammoracks you.
b) re APCs, ur prob penning through APCs , aim lower to trigger the detonator on transmission or engine block. HE insta kills anything Pz4 or under. AP for Panthers and above.
The 122mm is the only gun u dont need to aim at the Tiger2H turret to pen, just random lobbying in its direction usually gets an instant kill. U must be doing something off or havent practiced it much.
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No your Russian tank doesn’t need a buff
Empty APCs are hard to destroy by AP because AP shells can’t detonate them(APCs don’t have shells to detonate ) and cannot kill crew members because empty ones do not have crews.
D25t is deadly enough to all tanks except king tigers, and though its armor is not very reliable, but there is still a good chance to defend shots from kwk42. other soviet tanks are made of paper in front of kwk42.
IS2 is indeed not strong enough, but do not blame its good parts wrongly. This will become evidence for some foolish or malicious people to say that Soviet vehicles do not need to be buffed.
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No you need to,122mm can only penetrate when shooting at the vertical part of the Tiger II’s turret.
Don’t do that in Enlisted. If the engine is on fire, you can’t see shit through the fire. This is not WT where you can fight from a third person perspective and use magic to repair the vehicle without the need for crews to get off the vehicle.
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I think thats an issue of the apcs more than the Is-2 Im not sure if overpen is a thing in enlisted, but yes the Is-2 is non penning things that it should be penning, as far as I know apcs are very hard to destroy, just like that american AA car, you can kill the crew, but the vehicle rarely gets destroyed, unless you shoot HE I think
Pretty sure it is. In the training grounds you can shoot straight through some of the lower BR tanks and hit the one behind it
So apcs wouldnt detonate the shells
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Is 2 can oneshot KTH. Its dont need any buffs.
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No.
Honestly Is2 1944 is great. It CAN go toe yo toe vs king tiger, and easily. You just need more smarts.
Use cover. Is2 1944 got the best, fastest reverse speed of all heavy tanks in game. It negates it’s long reloading time issue entirely (shoot, immediately get back in cover) which means king tiger, even with better reloading speed WON’T SHOOT YOU MORE OFTEN.
The 122 is shooting mini nukes, too. If it pens anything, then the anything becomes fireball.
Those who keep whining about Is2 1944 only want it to have all the advantages of kt(h). Without it’s flaws.
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IS 2 is definitely worse than Tiger 2 H. Worse pene, worse armor, worse versatility.
But I don’t think buffing it is what we need.
Soviets should just get another tanks.
Some examples: T-44 (prototype/early) , T34-100, IS-100 (object 245/object 248), IS-3 (prototype/early), KV-4 (object 224), KV-5 (Object 225)
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I really don’t think they “need” anything. Their small arms tech tree became a meme because they “had” to have better, or at minimum, on par tools as their opponents.
Is it THAT horrible if for once, Sovs don’t have the very best thing as usual 
I’d go with more planes first. They’re not needed either, but at least there would be a high br choice.
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I think they do need another tank. Because if IS-2 doesn’t go well with your playstyle. Your second best option is just classic T-34/85. And I don’t think that’s enough.
But you are right about planes as well. They just lack variety and options.
Btw. What they really didn’t need was KV-1 on BR4. :PP
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Only reason why kv 1 zis 5 is in br 4 is because it would otherwise face t1 tanks. If they fixed the matchmaking there should be no problem
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Mmmh I don’t know about tanks. They’re great already but I indeed use them a bit more smartly than the regular Enlisted player…
Ofc Is2 1944, even if great, is not as versatile as KT.
But I like the asymmetry of it.
A bit like Japan. Their only high br tank… is just a TD. Best td in game, but just a td still… (their br 4 tank really should be br 3).
What Japan is powerful at, is air supremacy. It makes a very interesting dynamic with usa that got good tanks, doom CAS, but less potent fighters.
I just don’t want Sovs to continue their meme like trend of absolutely needing better or on par everything. Turns them into a joke, albeit a powerful one
Yeah, but BR5 Japan is on live server for just one week. Not really fair to make such comparison.
Japan should definitely get another tank option for BR5 in future, O-I would be most reasonable I guess.
What other tank would you propose? They pretty much have the counterparts to all the high tier tanks already
Unless you go backwards to kv 85 and what not, but that wont help high tier, ISU 152 opens door to elephant and jagtiger…and IS 3 never saw combat
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What do mean? Not counting these?
As long as it is ww2 prototype, I don’t care. I would rather have new content made of ww2 prototypes than new post war BRs.
Well i guess everyone will be asking for maus, tiger 2 105s and panther 2s next.
What of when jets are brought into question? Everyone but soviets would have them.
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Well, Maus would be pretty bad in Enlisted. And if it was added, I think it should be limited to some sort of time-limited event outside of the nomal queue that would be repeated periodically.
The Panther II is basically a Ho-Ri level vehicle in terms of historical accuracy.
I’d prefer the Panther F, especially since it was already in the game.
Prototypes which weren’t used in combat became inevitable even for war thunder. Even though their policy back then was completely different.
I think it would be really shame to rush non ww2 content instead.