Just like the vk045b, that is also overbuffed to the extent that it is not historical. The armor was never that thick, at most the armor could be like on the vk045a (which is a more sane armor upgrade looking at the original armor thickness). Also the gun and turret is fake on the vk045b there were never historical proposals for a 12.8cm gun. A 10.5cm gun at most.

That is why the are holding out on french and japanese tanks and even chinese tanks such as arty and TD. They do it by purpose.

Penetration is the same as on Tiger 2.
Accuracy is much worse.
Aimtime, too.
It has more alpha-dmg thats all.
In my oppinion, the IS-3 with Tiger 2 gun would be way better than with the BL-9. Btw: If the D-25T fits in that turret, it could not be THAT hard to fit the BL-9 in there. If it’s a historical proposition is the other question.

1. The spotting mechanics is also completely fake. A tank won’t be spotted by the crew just because there’s a continuous line between a tanks cupola and a special dot on another tank.

2. The camouflage mechanics is also completely fake. A tank don’t have a magical value that tells it how well it will stay hidden… that completely depends on how well you hide it.

3. The HP mechanics is also completely fake. If a AP-shell penetrates the armor it will travel into the crew compartment and kill everyone inside, not subtract HP from a fake value representing HP.

and maybe most important of all:

4. All tanks that were actually not produced are also fake since they actually never where produced. Prototypes and “paper-tanks” are allowed in game, and who says that WT auf E-100 actually wasn’t a real drawing? I mean, WG made up the idea of WT auf E-100 from somewhere, why wouldn’t Germany possibly have done the same? Just becouse it’s not in the archives doesn’t mean it was never drawed/considered.

Bottom line is that I don’t actually care so much about the tank itself as I’m fairly disappointed that the replacement will not have an autoloader… that was kind of the goal of grinding that line; the accuracy, penetration, damage, reload… that cannon was so nice and now they will remove it :(

yeah, it was my first tank as a reward from missions, and my most played !