They are not balanced though, yes that’s my opinion based of both playing and fighting them.
It’s not a bug, its the extreme angle of the armour that bounces most shells, combined with the FACT that it’s is thick enough to resist most HE at its rank AND the gun breech will shield half the crew if a shell dose get into the turret… OH and its big enough that an APHE will detonate BEFORE it reaches the ammo and the spalling wont make in into the ammo compartment. the HEAT/HEAT-FS that they carry renders the German heavy tanks and TDs that they face completely useless having 250/400mm of pen respectively.
And they are 6.0/6.3 Explain how that is “balanced”
It’s more based of my experience playing them then fighting them. I LOVE ripping Tiger 2, Jagdtigers, etc apart with them, but I can recognize its EXTREAMLY unfair.