The KV-2 (ZIS-6) is currently at BR 5.0 but I think it should go down to 4.7
*The armor is only 75mm which isn’t going to stop much, if anything at its own BR let alone an upteir (which is VERY common)
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The tank has a very slow speed at 34km
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The turret rotation is very slow at 4.2/s
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The reload speed is also slow at 20+ seconds
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The gun can only PEN 155mm
Its a heavy tank that cant rely on its armor, even on a downteir and a tank destroyer that cant rely on its gun. It certainly doesn’t help that BR 5.0 almost always gets upteired.
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It used to be a funny derp gun but now it’s just kinda sad.
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I am going to have to check it out again. I remember it penning the ufp of panthers.
I dont remember it being that bad of a tank.
“only” 155mm? The ZiS-6 is an excellent gun, it has insane sloped pen (UFP panthers, let alone anything at its BR), plus of course the overwhelming filler weight, and you can angle your armour quite well
I guess to be fair, it is low pen for a 106mm (Soviet 100mm has 239mm). But the gun is not lacking from what i remember. I use it more as a td than a brawler/heavy.
It should be eating the tiger spam rn.
The BR of the Zis-6 is definitely overlooked I feel. How this is the same BR as a VK3002 is crazy. Yes, the gun is good, but its still a KV-2 with a different gun. I think 4.7 is more than fair considering its atrocious gun handling and flat turret face.
(edit: spelling)
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The gun is good but just not enough to make it 5.0, at the same br you have the german KV1 and Vk 3002 which is wayyy better in everything except angle pen but you dont even need that much pen and you reload 3 times faster anyways, the armor on this Kv-2 is extremely unreliable and when you add a long reload and bad speed to that it just makes you a sitting duck after shooting your shell
It’s satisfying to get kills with it but that’s about it, even the T-34-57 armor is more reliable and it has a good gun too so why choose the Kv-2 zis 6 over the T-34 especially when it’s br is lower