IS-6 has more armor.
Cracked?
The Maus can’t be cracked by definition unless it goes to 6.7 or something like that where stuff starts to nonpen even your flat side.
Not Soviet shells in general, but APHEBC which basically only Soviet tanks use
You either have not played it or you’re just not good at it, one of the two
The IS-6 was overpowered at 7.0, strong at 7.3 and it’s nothing special at BR 7.7
The problem is that cold-war mediums are more mobile than you and have a better reactivity window - that is, if an M60 or M48 comes around the corner he can click on you faster than you can click on him to get a consistent pen. The fact that you have worse turret traverse doesn’t help this issue much.
I’d say that if you’re power-grinding with the IS6, tough luck. If you’ve got a lineup, you should only bring it out late-game or in games that are mostly downtiers - i.e, 140 or 160SP spawn cost. This applies to almost every heavy in the game, with the exception that lower-tier heavies don’t get frontally clicked on by same BR mediums as much.
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7.7 is fine for the IS6 … however the real issue is that there’s 8.7 tanks that need to go up in BR but along with everything else above them so there’s less compression in that BR range. France has a similar issue in the 7.7 range when facing things like the t55am’s and tam’s, JapzA2s, m60 a1s object 435 etc etc. atm its suffering because of BR compression in an up tier like most 7.7 vehicles. I’d recommend playing something else till the next BR changes.
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Tell that to most of France, many Russian tanks, several American tanks, several Swedish tanks, and any other tank without HEAT below 8.0.
Not everything has HEAT, and sometimes the things that don’t can be lolpenned by the IS-6.
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That’s good.
You’re basically expecting that every single tank almost a full BR below IS-6 is able to lolpen it, which is comical.
76mm jumbo (6.3) vs IS-6 (proposed 7.3).
Lol. Absolutely lmao. The sheer rofl of it all.
You just want your tank to do to others what other tanks are doing to you! That’s not balance, that’s trying to buy favor.
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Not only that, IS-6 will frequently meet stuff with stabilization, which further adds to it’s misery.
Lmao, no. You can always shoot the flat gunner optic side and kill it in one shot. It’s just that most people playing this game are braindead.
With all due respect, your point is retarded. The 76 jumbo can already face tanks it can’t pen on a full uptier. And it’s not the only tank in the game that suffers from this, if anything it doesn’t even remotely struggle compared to the other ones that do
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Yes 4.7 gun at 6.3 with mid mobility no reverse and ufp that can be lolpened.
Tanks that dont suffer in uptiers are the ones with good firepower.
Tanks like IS-2s Tiger 2s, Panthers can still put up a fight, while Jumbo cant.
IS-6 at 7.7 fits there since IT is still very good while downtiered and struggles whith uptieres as every other heavy, but its no useless, yes heatfs just go trough ufp but its is not like it cant return fire and with aphe its oneshot, while with heat or apds not rly
Almost all the major nations are still running majority APHE, APDS, or AP arounwd 7.0. And thats not even considering tanks like the T92 that have HEAT but have horrific postpen and will sometimes fail to even pen at all. Then consider that EVERY SINGLE heat slinger is easily pennable by the 122mm. If your tank’s HEAT round fails to kill the is6, you are usually dead.
Nah, the iS6 is still better than the IS4. It doesn’t need to be both better and a BR down.
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You should also consider that thing has reload speed of 18s, while 90mm HEAT slingers have it at 7.7/8.7s. Poor gun handling and non-existent gun depression are important factors as well.
Shooting on the right side of the tank will kill the gunner with a high probability of killing the commander and/or driver as well.
I’ve tried everything possible l, in the end I’m ALWAYS one shot in up tier, in down or mid tier I’m also often one shot but I survive significantly longer and get more kills. With the Is-3 it’s the same thing, except that I can endure more in uptier and am often not oneshot
Tigers and Panthers can kill me and some USA Tanks too but I know that it is also very op there, but you can somehow regulate whether you get downtier or not, which means that you then make the probability significantly lower or You leave it at 7.7 but you get significantly less uptier
I was mostly talking about stuff at the same BR. 105mm APDS can’t pen the ufp, which means you have to aim for a tiny weakspot. And then theres tanks that aren’t stabilized and can’t pen it (minus the tiny weakspot) which are just not good against it, and some of those are at the same BR.
@Tron_Paul The issue is that it is a very small weakspot. Also a 1 shot isn’t super common, it usually only takes out 2 crew.
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L7 APDS can’t pen the UFP of the IS-6? Since when? I’m pretty sure it butters it up.