Pretty much this. T-34-85 is 25-30 km/h faster, has troll volumetric trap armor, and the same firepower. Neither the IS-1 or T-34-85 can tank direct hits from Panthers, Tigers, or 76mm Sherman, but your odds of surviving and flanking are much higher on the T-34.
We won’t add new nations because they are clones, which is why we are introducing clones.
AFAIK if you buy them on launch day you get the same bonuses as if you preordered them.
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4 20mm and not an open top is hardly a bad SPAA, unless you are judging it based on it being a tank destroyer.
Whirblwind is a better spaa at 3.7 than anything germany gets till the gepard or closed top thing at 7.0 which has no lineup anymore, and gaijin decided the coelian was less fake than the ostwind 2 so we lost our closed top option. People stop using it at higher brs because things like the 30mm quad thing at 6.0 shreds tanks and is good enough for spaa duty.
Same for things like the zsu 23 at 6.0 being tossed in favor of the one at 6.3 because its a better TD but much worse spaa for russia.
Being mostly immune to strafing from guns is a pretty big deal for fighting actual planes.
What @Beeschurger said ☝️ I saw another poster on another thread confirm that console players DO GET the preorder bonuses if they order right after they are listed for purchase for console players. You have 2 weeks, confirmed by Mod post linked below. But, if you really want the title and decals, I would suggest just buying what you want the moment/day they are listed for console players 👍
EDIT: Found the other posts! Info below:
My other post, but Mod post/info below is all that matters.
Pre-order: Battleship Gneisenau and Battlecruiser Sevastopol - #283 by SilentTracker
Pre-order: Battleship Gneisenau and Battlecruiser Sevastopol - #284 by Rennie1018129-live
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Cough German Sherman Cough
In typical Thodin fasion, something is only a problem when Germany is negatively affected.
Wait, german sherman was the first sherman added to the game?
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Found the other posts! Added to my other reply above. Hiding the duplicate info here behind spoiler to save space.
Reply/info from Mod:
Pre-order: Battleship Gneisenau and Battlecruiser Sevastopol - #288
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Yep. German Sherman was added in the ground CBT while the US Shermans + Soviet lend lease Sherman only got added in update 1.45.
Lmao. Today i learned.
I was planning to buy the UK pack to pair it with my Churchil Crocodile but after todays hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit I will probably pass.
Maybe if you fix the bugs with Crocodile I consider it.
Please, where was the IS-1 in 1945? In WT, IS-1 even came to May 45, and it wore a decent disguise! I’m disappointed, whether out of respect for history or a compromise on gameplay, it’s much better to change to the SU-100 than the IS-1!
On one hand, those camouflages look cool.
On the other hand, kind of sucks that camouflages are locked behind paywall.
Still brought British pack.
Am I the problem?
?? In he Soviet army I presume.
They still had KV-2’s in service at Kursk, and BT-7 in the far east in 1945, T-40 in Leningrad until 1943, etc… so I see no problem having some of the few IS-1’s still in service in mid 1945 - apparently about 200 were made before production shifted to IS-2 in January 1944, and it’s much more maintainable than the KV-2!!
can Sony and XBox accounts pre-order this from their respective console stores or is the pre-order for PC only?
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the t35-85 entire tank is a weakspot, what is this trash argument? and the is can reverse sidescrap if it needs to.
it’s still a very effective flanker (and it’s a heavy tank), just not as good, but it excels at brawling when well employed.
you’d be surprised how well it can tank those (especially when reverse sidescrapping)
You don’t need to “pre order” to get the pre order bonuses on console 😉 Check out my other post above for details: Pre-order: Packs for the USA, USSR and Great Britain! - #74 by SilentTracker
(Most important info: you have 2 weeks from the date that the major patch goes live to get the pre order bonuses on console.)
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Yes but unlike IS-1 34/85 doesnt pretend to have an armor, its playstyle is largely unaffected by uptiers.
IS-1 clings to its armor thats barely effective fighting at its own BR less so in a uptier.
At that point just ditch it.
Sure, works as long as the person shooting at you just doesnt go for the turret.
Lmao it isnt, what are you on about?
Its much slower with larger profile than 34/85. You aint flanking in this big boi.
Maybe in a downtier, barely on its own BR and its absolutely trash in uptiers.
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