I have played both russian heavy lines and my stats are dark green, working towards blue. ( I only state this for the benefit of the many people who accuse others of being tomatoes

A)Whenever i am up against an is7 i don’t panic because it’s a matter of time before the is7 player messes up:

1)Turn around a corner
2)Accidental spike angling
3)Lower hull exposed

B)At the same time, when i am using my is7, i dont make those mistakes very often. However, when i am being surrounded by a horde of medium tanks i don’t have much of an escape plan. Then again, the same can be said for other tanks as well.

C) I loved the kv4. It bounces the is7′s shots effortlessly and only needed dynamic angling when up against the premium shells. My kv4 would then proceed to wear down the is7.

D) People don’t play the kv4 because it is unwieldly. Slow and cumbersome, it requires angling to stay alive. On the other hand, is7 just needs to face enemies head on from a similar elevation while hiding its lower hull.

In conclusion, i loved both lines (except the is8, more of a medium than a heavy) but i prefer the IS4 to the IS7 due to the line being more faithful to the heavy tank manifesto.

P.S: Your argument was sound save for the legs part, which i didn’t get.

But if you really want the best it was the t110 project.

Laminated armor, with a thick spaced section and 300mm of raw frontal.
It was 450mm vs AP and 750 vs HEAT.

anYWAYS BOTH THE rOMANIAN ONES ARE LIKE 78 AND LATER

That great 3k DPM goes to 2600 after 1 missed shot, so if you were 75% accurate before you will be hit hard probably 60% accurate now or die waiting for bloom to go down and 2 missed shots a minute is a whopping 2200 DPM…..Wow

Also T57 was amazing because it was fully zoomed after 2.2 secs meaning you could fire ,2 secs after the intra load time and have a 100% shot….Now with aim time nerf+ bloom its more like 2.7 between shots standing still meaning you will be 70% zoomed in most fast shots essentially snap shotting where before you zoomed .

T57 will exponentially become weaker, 50b is now god mode as it has 2nd best heavy gold round in game, it has amazing accuracy, solid bloom now but best is speed of a 140 in a straigline, which means it will cruise with the meds…..IS7+50b now have top speed to keep up with meds where as E5 and T57 dont.

Point is the IS7 was already OP in armor and needs nothing else, but because WG wanted to keep the baddies happy they not only kept it the same but buffed it.

This is clearly making something to OP just for profit IMO as its the most popular heavy on RU.

Seriously where is my E5`s upgrade when its “Reskinned”.

Hell lets make the E5 like it was actually designed, with laminate armor and a upper with 315 LOS armor and a lower of 285mm @ LOS with a straight hull we can angle. Oh and vs HEAT it was 450mm+. It also was 65 degrees in angle.
Did I mention it had a 900 HP engine planned, or that the gun cradle moved an extra 2 degrees over the already 8 degrees….How about its gun being 285 pen and it being more accurate than L7.

Why not its not like game balance matters, im sure all of Muricans on NA would love this and it would make them money…..Oh thats right they are supposed to be fair and make tanks as equal as they can, not bend to the will or wants of the pubs.

Funny how WG is so “How Terrible” about everything when its a small number of people complaining even when they are 100% right, except the things RU server as a whole want to do, then its “We didnt do this because you all asked for it but because X Y or Z” Historical accuracy, or balance or other nonsense.

I`ll tell you what after T57 got pwn nerfed and the IS7 is god now fro nthe front, it will be goto choice again in CW, esp since all maps are becoming brawling primarily

It has spaced armor met with a very sharp 45 degree sloped plate and then another thick vertical plate….http://i.imgur.com/GSFpZJu.jpg

Lol yeah your right its sooooo easy to hurt the best armored sides in the game.

Dude this is ridiculous. The IS7 was already the best armored T10 in game when it comes to assaulting as it really can bounce anything from pike up. It bounces much much more than a MAUS as it is just ads protected from HEAT as AP and MAUS isnt.