I did the event so I didn’t spend a dime. I actually abandoned it and completely forgot about it for two years until recently I have been playing a little bit of 10.7 and getting spike’d a lot so I decided to crew it, it didn’t disappoint me. I have had first spawn helicopters dumping their entire loadout on me and only be able to destroy my barrel, tracks, one crew member and top mounted mg lol also sending helicopters with ATGM back to hangar by wasting all their missiles lol
Might have to play it more passively since it doesn’t have thermals. And another good news about the hardkill APS is we can now rearm the spent ammo at objective point, IIRC its a recent update.
Is-3 is fine as it is, most 7.3 and below are fine as they are. Maybe decompression would help but moving any vehicle in that range would only make things worse right now
Ask the same question when an M4, Jumbo, IS1, T-34-85, T44 faces a Tiger 2, Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger, Ferdnand. And that is that a Panther or Tiger 1 has more chance of destroying the IS3 head-on than these Americans and Russians have of destroying these German tanks.
They have stabilizers which is a huge advantage but yes this is a full uptier and the game is compressed massively.
Everything I said about the previous tank except this one is a heavy so even less expected to perform in uptiers.
Full uptier, but yes compression.
Full uptier, but yes compression.
T-44 has a weak aphe shell for the BR but has decently high mobility, good armor, and overall is a jack of all trades that just has lower pen. It doesn’t really struggle.
Turretless TD
Turretless TD
Turretless TD
not really unless you hit the tiny weakspot. chances are you get ufp’d by the IS-3 as soon as it sees you after bouncing your first shot
roof or driver port. Roof is 20mm at 80 degrees, so any falling shot has a good chance of penning. if close, shoot the driver port.
@Normandy_Corsair The arguments against have literally been ‘weak point too hard to hit’ for tanks a full downteir below a heavy tank. I still don’t understand what you ppl expect armor to do. You have half this forum claiming heavy tanks suffer then you have ppl like you claiming heavy tanks need to be easily pennable by anything in a full downteir. The IS3 is good in a full dowteir, far below average in its own br, and useless in an upteir. Nearly every other 7.3 is better than it in a competition vs other 7.3s.
Ok, what at 7.3 doesn’t have heatfs or apds? Arty that eat it alive, Ho-Ri, and T32. Both the later are OP at the BR.
Your argument has been consistently that weak points are too hard to hit, but nearly nothing at 7.3 NEEDS weak points on the is3. So easier pennable weak points is what you would require for it to go to 7.0… so i’m not misrepresenting your argument.
So now we have to throw 6.7 in?
Sure, not everything at 6.7 has HEATFS, but 240 pen will go right though that mantlet. T34s and such with solid rounds much the same. Only a few meds have to aim for weak points, as a lot of the lights have HEATFS.
It started as ‘full downteirs, tigers, panthers’ i rebutted all of that. Then it was ‘its fine where it is’ and i rebutted that its the one of the worst 7.3s. Then we have to go through every BR between where nearly every tank can pen either the mantlet or should be struggling to pen a heavy tank .7-1.0 above it.
FFs man, MENTION WHICH. vague’ there are tanks that… does literally nothing. You can say it many times, it doesn’t make it actually correct. If you are trying to say there are light tanks then yes… yes light tanks should have difficulty penning heavy tanks frontally at a full br up. Again, idk what you expect.
It’s comical warching this argument. Here’s some perspective - 99% of what american players have to do is flank. Or… we dont immediately shoot anything the first second we see it. Sometimes waiting for a better shot pays off.
Or go for the barrel - you can absolutely break barrels on the tiger series. Like, the jumbo 75 got 5.7 because you had to apply a little bit of thought into your fighting. Sit still and any german gun is going through your frontal weak spot, mean while your main gun wont go through most frontal armor (exception being a handful of weak spots or lighter enemies).
I get it, war thunder is stupidly frustrating. And because they place BR for tanks based on the performance of everyone (when they should be removing the statistical outliers), some vehicles get over BR’d.
In this case though, I’d challenge you to go play through the American tech tree and get to 7.0. A lot of german and russian mains haven’t played the sherman medium/american light game and then complain not knowing how much work and effort actually go into performing well as US at this BR. I am not including their CAS options though, as I only have that to 4.0 for the US - and I can’t speak to its effectiveness or challenges in ground past that point.
