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There's been a lot of talk about heavy tanks lately, even though in the current meta they don't impact that much, balance wise they all do fine except the King Tiger.

IS2 is fine, the short range is mostly due to it's purpose as an assault tank, and that it prioritize the use of zis at guns.

The ostwind is definitely in a bad position.
I don't know a thing about balance, if it was up to me though, just increase cost and efficiency, at least make it so it can get additional aoe on blobbed units.

I'm curious, what about changing the penal AT upgrade to 3 ptrs (reduce deflection damage to keep it the same vs later armour) to make it SLIGHTLY more bursty against lights like the FHT? ROF could be adjusted so it's not an outright 50% dps buff. This would have the added effect of further reducing penals DPS and making it even more of a trade off to get the AT package. PTRS should be the answer to something like the FHT not the zis.

Edit:less direct damage and more DOT would also be a good change for the FHT. Kv-8 as well for that matter (church isn't going to chase, nor is the hetzer so I think they are fine)

Penals with PTRS was never a good idea to begin with.
No infantry can deal reliable damage to this unit yet, the best you can do with bazookas or PTRS is expect to push back the flamer until you get a light tank.

Like I said, this is already good, but even this doesn't happen, in most cases your at infantry will be remote somewhere and get assaulted by the flamer when it's isolated from the rest.
Even if it's not, the flamer is best used against isolated squads, whenver this happens you can be certain you will be wiped to the last squad model even if you retreat.




@Widerstreit

Dude, I can't go through all your points because they just expose your lack of knowledge and how you work out your plan in 1v1.
In one line you tell me that blobbing is bad (true), and in another you tell me that you shouldn't leave your at infantry without a back-up.
You realize that you are basically explaining that you should be blobbing in the first minutes of the game where map control is of most importance?

Then you compare a T70 TO A LUCHS AND 222? Are you serious there or just trolling me?
You understand why a certain unit performs different tasks and costs more than others? So do you...maybe...understand why a unit performs better than another one?

Why would anyone think that a t70 can be compared to a flame HT? Let alone a 222...

I've never paid atention to these stats.
People claim IS2 is weaker or stronger than the Tiger, but when the site was still up I was certain they had about the same stats in scatter and armor.

About the chances to hit, there is a reason most sov players picked up the SU85 against Ostheer and "nothing else", because they knew it had the most chances to pen the brumbar and the other tanks couldn't do that job efficiently.

Why wouldn't su76 or T3485 to do it from rear side at least?
Even so the deflection happened all too often to be called a reliable counter, especially given the cost and performance of either M38 or SU85.
They are deemed "OP" tank destroyer, but maybe they forget that getting them costs more resources than a brumbar and they are dedicated anti-tank units?


You literally get one tank to destroy one specific tank, and it leaves you also with less anti-infantry capability, for which Soviet really need med tanks for(if they don't go shocktroops, which is the case for most games now).

I had no problem with brumbar being able to wipe out AT guns easily, you just had to find a reliable counter.

But before the nerf, no matter what you had at hand, it wasn't so much about having the right counter against a brumbar, but watching all your shots getting deflected or not penetrating.

Sometimes I even wondered if it was a bug, the shells just magically bounced, shots after shots.