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I disagree with that. Why should the elite troop doctrine not have access to cutting edge infantry weaponry?

For one thing, Ostheer is based on the mid war 1941-1943 German Eastern armies, while IR tech is definitely late war.

60TD Ez mode here. 45:32 mark

This has nothing to do with balance, or "ez mode". The Axis are grossly outmatched in that engagement. IS-2, SU-85, SU-85, Jackson and Jackson versus Tiger, StuG and Panther.

Go do the math on the costs involved there and please come back to us with the result.
(Spoiler alert: the Allies brought over 1.5x as much value into that fight)

It's slow as fuck and super fragile. 99.9% of the time, taking it out of your base is not worth the risk so it's "mobility" is barely worth a damn already

In 1v1s yes, but in 3v3s/4v4s an early forward ambulance to hold one part of the map (with teammates) is incredibly powerful, borderline overpowered even, which is the reason any straight durability buffs were discarded. We looked at the alternative base layout to help protect it, but that was not deemed viable for Relic to implement, and we looked at giving the ambu a lock down mode for main base sectors so it could have increased durability only there, but couldn't find a simple way to do so.

There would be a reason, if Heavy tanks had the appropriate 300+ fuel costs. Since they’re only 230-260 fuel of course they are OP.

That's not much of a solution either, no one would ever buy a 300+ fuel unit. The momentum and timing lost from that alone (~3 extra minutes with regular 20-30 fuel income) would likely make them unviable again.

We're currently looking at some minor tweaking that should hopefully make them harder choices over mediums while still leaving them as a powerful strategic option.

The question here is, what would be IS-2 identity then?

It can still keep the identity of a high armored durable beast. It doesn't need 375 armor for that though when Axis tank destroyers have either low penetration (JP4/StuG) or low range (StuG) / DPM (Panther). ~340 armor would still be a lot higher than the Tiger I's, at least relatively (lower pen weapons firing at it). While giving Axis more viable options (increasing the effectiveness of Jagdpanzer IV / StuG / Panther) to fight it than only the Tiger I.

Not to mention it has gotten a significant firepower increase (against both infantry and vehicles) so it's much more well rounded now, and doesn't need overcompensatingly (and unhealthy) high armor anymore. High armor will be good enough.

a TON of 3-0 matches actually concludes a lot

Soviets were picked roughly 40 times. OKW and OST picks are 2:1 in favour of OKW, so without knowing the exact number of SOV-OST matchups, I would assume it's somewhere around 13. That is not a ton of matches. With such a low amount of games, even one loss (which can be caused by anything from big mistakes, to really bad RNG, to bad player skill matchups, to simply losing a very close match by 1 VP) can skew the win rate by 5-10%. TLDR in my opinion this SOV vs OST winrate tells us absolutely nothing conclusive.