Exactly what the title says. I love spading vehicles, and I spaded the IS-3 and below but looking back, ever since the original IS-2 they’ve all been pretty bad. Not enough armor to be heavy, too slow to be light, they really seem to have a decent gun and that’s it, but they have a 20+s reload.
Makes them ok for sniping, but it really doesn’t because some level 100 sweat is waiting kilometers away behind a ridge for my arrival. In cities with more cqb I feel as though I get penetrated by anything.
Before I spend a lot of time playing the IS-4M poorly to spade it, does anybody have advice for the IS tanks?
Every is is bad, the only thing that makes sense in my opinion is the t10a, it’s really strong when you have downtier, and the is6-4 t10m is7 regular is2 is horrible, and the is2m or is3 are really good, you have to learn how to play
Other than the gun, the IS-3 only has armor going for it, which is somehow useless in matches at its own BR or in uptiers. I remember perhaps 3 downtiers in the IS-3 which were fun breaks, but the majority of matches have guns that seem to pen the IS-3 easily.
Maybe it is just get better at the IS-4M and I should try to rat less
IS tanks is the type of assault heavy tank, has decent armor but great mobility, like the T26E5 or T26E1, you should rely most on your weapon rather than your armor,
In my opinion IS-4M solve this issues regarding armor and still has a good weapon to use, but since it’s placed in battle rating 7.7, you’ll face a lot of chemical ammunition too, which means armor isn’t everything you need mobility which IS-4M doesn’t have much.
Comrade it’s Simple, IS-2 you need to play a Semi-Agressive-Passive Gameplay pushing when you can, For IS-3 it’s the same shit but with more armor, The IS-4M is just garbage, The T-10M a beutifull tank and it works really well when you learn it
Here’s a thing with the later IS tanks. Don’t play them in uptiers. They suffer in them, as you’ll face stabilized tanks with APFSDS. You could try using the 7.7 T-54 there, but its not much better.
What I did to make those tanks more playable was ace the crews and play stealthily; for me, it probably one of the best tanks, especially the 1944 version of the IS-2.
My advice for playing the IS Series tank is sniping and playing stealthy. Due to its long reload rate, I recommend you get a friend or a teammate to be together with you. Your Tank have a great mobility of moving back and foward. For the IS-4M it may suffer a little but if you know your enemy weakness everything is easy as heck.
Heavy tanks past 6.7 is rough, and heavies are match maker dependent (uptier/downtier) on whether their armor is going to be as effective.
Powercreep hurts them more than any other vehicle. Been getting a lot of new modern derp guns in the form of artillery pieces like the pzh 2000 etc in the 7.x brackets that just obliterate you.