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What do you mean dude?
@Caernarvon02 despises the KV-1E right, if you look at the Excelsior it is literally Better in every way, bar its lack of APHE.
Better armor frontally, on the sides of the turret it’s decent and can bounce stuff reliably, and the hull sides are just a shot trap.
Farrrrrr better forward mobility, and neutral steering.
Also… I’m not sure why, but it fires M61, and isn’t M61 APHE with 104mm pen? It is on US vehicles.
The gun it uses is basically the M3’s Breech used with the longer barrel. They used US made 75mm ammunition and the M61 shell was used with and without the filler. They probably omitted the filler for balance reasons tbh.
If it is for balance reasons, why is it better than a KV-1E, and lower Br?
It’s a 4.0, kv is a 4.3 now.
Gaijin Logic. Does the KV have more games/players using it?
Indeed the KV does.
That’s probably why. Not enough people play the Excelsior for Gaijin to notice and raise its BR. If it turned into a situation like the EBRs then it would 100% be sent to a higher BR.
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well it certainly doesnt look like that to me. It has better frontal armor? but its just a simple box so it rarely bounces the german penetrative shots. It has 104mm pen but has solid shot AP with questiuonal ballistics and basically zero damage output, especially for angled targets. Its side armor is questionable at best, it doesnt let you angle so easilly and leaves a weakspot at the guide track. Idk. I wish to get the Excelcior to try it myself, but i just cant get around that
Rare event vehicles are weird in terms of statistics so I can’t blame them fromtaking a different approach to balancing them.
If they applied purely statistics based balancing the IS-7 would be moved up in no time.
Gaijin logic has no bounds. I just wish they’d play the game more often like regular players to notice nuances.
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The AP solid shot is actually usually quite good.
And yes it’s 114mm armor on the Excelsior
Vs the 100-105mm on the KV-1E.
IS-7 is cannon fodder.
It should honestly be an 8.0 with how many Heatfs slingers are in game well below its br.
But that’s just my opinion, as I believe most Soviet heavies are over br’d
The IS-7 is absolutely not cannon fodder. It’s one of the easiest 8.3 tanks to play.
Sorry but that is 100% false. You really have to play the IS-7 to feel how stupidly easy it is.
Top tier against Russia is absolutely unplayable, winrate about 10% and that is playing as a Japan/british main. There are countless broken fake propaganda Russian vehicles, T72, T80, BMPT, T90, and worst of it is that alot of them are premium. No skill-set needed, just waves and waves of p2w mentality people jumping in a T72 Arena, BMPT-72 or T80U anime variant non-sense. There is currently no legimate way to enjoy 10.7-12.7, except paying Gaijin €70 for fake Russian technology.
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It does seem like top tier is a real struggle for none Russian countries, even when you are winning only Russia, France and maybe Sweden have the force multiplier that is Russian CAS
Su-30s with Kh-38 just decimate teams and then you have LMURs and even BMP-Ts at top tier are a real pain.
So you’re absolutely sure they don’t require any skill after playing exactly zero games with higher tier T-tanks, good to know.
Also, Arena and T-80-UE-1 are far from being broken.
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I wouldn’t call 56% WR to be decimation though.
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I bet I do.
But I also 1 tap it all the time with Heatfs and darts.
Well, not all the time, rather when I see it.
I never played it at 8.3 but from my experience with it i’d say it was probably fine at 8.3. It had good stats because nobody inexperienced bought it, and thus it went up. Its more of a sidegrade to T-55A. Better APHE, KPVT, but significantly worse armor.