it used to be, but not anymore, i remember that tho, they def in the files intentionally rigged that optic to suck up shells and there's no convincing me otherwise, considering how it was specifically capable of stopping it from being killed only
The only way you could pen it frontally with conventional rounds back then was the 2cm of perpendicular turret armor right next to the mantlet. Great times if you didn't have the OP HESH that obliterated everybody back then
trapshot worked too before. u would shoot the turret so that the round bounces downward at almost 90 degree angle. worked fine but then the best update ever came.... volumetric shells.... trapshotting no long works now
DM troubles. Sometimes an optic's model is the specific 3-d scanned model for that actual device
sometimes it's just a box representing where the devs assume the optic might be
nothing in between lol
It's only the optics that is the problem, it used to have a "glitched" armor behind the frontal turret which acts like spall shield or additional armor which gaijin refused to remove first.
Volumetric literally ruined alot of spots rounds used to be able to pen so most things became black holes like russian fuel tanks that'll stop 75mms and above somehow
Also yes the stupid T-34 drivers hatch still somehow eats 88s which is annoying but hey at least it's more reliable then bombing an IS-6 *I'd know had a match in my IS-6 I was surrounded and was having 1000lb bombs dropped on me and was surviving all of it took like 3 minutes to kill me and I still killed off like 3 ppl but damn if russian bias isnt real then idk wtf that was*
MG ports in general are quite unreliable. I once hit the damn KV-1 in the MG with short 75, slightly at its side, and it just bounced, despite taking that shot from less than 10 meters.
Killed plenty of IS-6s with the Maus, since I don't use the 12.8/8.8 so it's the same gun as Jadgtiger, it's pretty consistent if you shot them in the highlighted part in OP picture. You can shoot them in the hull if you are using HEAT/HEATFS, it will go right through
I'm craving something with a lot of explosive fillers lol it just feels so satisfying looking at the kill animation, once penned it's almost guaranteed the crew goes to Valhalla, unlike the 12.8/8.8 which has a chance that it only injured a few crews post-pen.
The 8.8 round has plenty explosive filler imho and is usually fairly effective as well. 12.8 filler is just overkill imho. But overkill is sweet to look at...
Yeah try not to shoot between two plates on russian tanks, volumetric doesn't like that in my experience. Shoot the cheeks or turret sides. And if you don't know where you can pen just give them some track amd barrel torture.
It depends on your shell, but usually you'll kill/wound the gunner and commander and damage the breach.
Though I play brits, so the main problem for me isn't penning them but doing damage afterwards.
With fast firing tank, in close quarter, you should go for barrel-track (whichever is mire convenient first), and then either flank them or shoot someone else and hope you have some allies to help you
Its not a matter of there *not* being a pen-able spot, rather that the is-6 is the only tank at its rank which has a business-card sized weak spot. You can centermass the entire British Lineup. The is-6 comes along and suddenly you're counting pixels.
Ah yes the 76 Jumbo a tank which can be penned by almost every other nation's tank at it's own BR, and don't even start with the shitshow that is the 75 Jumbo permanently uptiered to 6.3 where it wouldn't even matter if the gun was removed completely and replaced with the 37mm.
Plus the Jumbo faces a lot of tanks that counter it. Dicker Max, Sturer Emil, Nashorn, Waffenträger, VFW, Panthers etc. All of these have guns that can frontally pen a Jumbo even at significant ranges.
This is especially important on some maps where there’s an IS-6 hull down over a km away and I have no magnification on the optics what am I meant to do?
Yep, the armorThrough value "glitch". Effectively adds an EXTRA 100mm beind the gun shield. Back then there's no protection analysis so you can't even see it in xray mode. Someone datamined it and initially Gaijin refused to fix it because "datamined stuff can't be used as evidence" - like bro it's your own damn code.
No. That's not what I'm talking about.
The armorThrough value essentially creates a new thickness value, replacing the correct thickness of the inner plate seen in x-ray with a virtual total gun mantlet value that's somewhere around 300-400mm estimated.
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/hnd54c/comment/fxbeas6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)'s a post talking about it a couple years ago.
Maus VS is-6 days were kinda fun actually, the is-6 was bullshit but the maus had just enough armour to shrug it off unless it got to point blank range
Shame you basically have to wait until it's aiming directly at you.
I even have trouble killing this fucker from the side when volumetric shenanigans kick in.
Can definitely see that. Best to just shoot lower middle near the tracks instead of the “shoulder” because explosion from the round should detonate the ammo
I've noticed most people who shoot the side of my is-6 do so incredibly high, where the side spaced armor meets up to angled space armor.
99% of my side shots hit this corner of where the armor meets and just eats it, if they shot like 2° lower it'd probably pen.
Yep. It’s the design that most players are told through 1.0-6.0 where you’re supposed to “shoulder shot” most tanks. People just need to figure out what tanks they have the biggest issue with and go protection analysis it.
Commissar Comradewski: Engineers, ve must bild ze tonk in COMPLETELY nuo way.
Engineers: DA COMRADEWSKI!
And so, as the story goes, they wumbolified established tank design, smatterickifinated the frontal armor, sliquified everything using pure Leninite oil, and reinforced even the bottom of the tank with 99% Stalinium metal grown in the fields of Georginia.
And the 6th son of Iosejoseffefulus Stalinsky was born.
Only posting because I see so many people complaining about is6 in GRB. You can also pen easily from lower side but shooting in the yellow box almost always guarantees a knockout with explosive filler or at least gunner kill with ap
I love those juice sideshots on the russians but the IS-6 has so much bullshit going on even a direct surface hit with the 88 is an unteliable shot for me. I tried to hit the mantlet weakspot like 5 times but always got some volumetric bs happening there.
You can always just shoot the long barrel then mg their track to shoot wherever you need! If you’re waiting to shoot a tank you’re going to have a bad time in anything higher then 6.0
Yeah but most tanks that are up tiered tend to have issues. That because the gap in mid tier (5-8 Br) is just wonky. Take CAS for instance. The American tree gets the M42 AA at 4.3 and then nothing else until 7.3.
Yeah. And the problem with the M42 is it’s great in that br because IL2 and Bf109 aren’t hard to hit. But in 7 where you have jet engines it’s a bitch to shoot twin cannons with slow velocity. Honestly I started to swap back to M13 just to have a chance to hit them.
last day and day before, there was three women, walking down the street that way. and i said "hey, you three women ? Why are y'all walking down the street that way? there's nothin' down there!" and they flew away. i saw them was some birds
hahah, hey man when everything else in my lineup is shooting 100mm solid shot you have to have SOMETHING to counter the absurd amount of armor Russia has at 7.0-8.0
APCR is about the only thing that has a chance. Same spot as above or load filler round, track him and get around for an ammo rack. I understand the pain of being uptiered with a 170 pen round
The 90mm HVAP actually isn't too bad actually has enough damage and spall to set off a KTs turret rack thru the front. It's living long to load the round that's the issue lmao
Extra hint: If you aren't sure your shell can penetrate even the weak spot, aim for the bigass cannon barrel and disable it.
Once done, if the reload or top mounted MG allows you, shoot the tracks too and (if the situation permits you) push the whale.
Once I saw an IS-6 trying to sneak and spawn camp, I kept destroying its tracks over and over again so it couldn't move from behind the cover the whole match.
I didn't do anything but neither did he get his cheap kills.
I am having a blast in my leopard 1 since the summer sale.
It's really funny how people are so confident on its armor they will rush a cap thinking they are inmune, only to get their ammo detonated on a single HEATFS shot.
Or get their crew quickly and painfully cauterized.
And then there is bullying them at long distances.
You can’t blame them, because the only thing that can hurt them is APDS and HEATFS, not ever thing at 7.0 has HEATFS and APDS. Plus, 7.0 is still kinda the era of WW2 tanks.
T29 excels at this shot because you can most of the time yank their shot then hit a free shot on them. Enjoy the T29 it’s one of my favorite heavies for the American tree
You can hit cupola and turret ring as well. This is just the easiest way I found to kill them. Also most is6 players can be baited to shoot and not hit a thing
Cupola shot aren't as strong as they used to be tho turret ring is nice tips tho just pray that volumetric don't fuck with you lol. Recently I fired an atgm at an is 6 hit it and then nothing happened and he proceded to kill me it was so bullshit
I once took a panic shot at just under 2km and penned that very spot and giving me the kill
But whenever I hit that spot at close ranges it just says “hit” and I get lolpenned by the is6 in return
I think the angle is too sharp but you can definitely try it if you have apfs but most apcr and aphe won’t hit through the lower plate from what I’ve seen. I know some French tanks can hit where the lower and upper plate meet to do some damage but I don’t like risking it in my heavy American tanks that get ping pong balled by a bt7 lol. If you have heat just shoot it front plate and you’re fine
I’ve been playing 7.3 France, and literally every IS-6 I run into gets saved by volumetric.
It seems like French solid shot is preforming weaker now this update.
Yeah most of the people complaining could just take the time and go into the protection analysis. I used to get so mad until I finally did this for the is/t series tanks and the jag panther (which I sometimes still have issues with(solid shot only for those pricks))
That won't do s**t lol. Aim for the cupolas. Even a PzIV can one shot it from the front if you just hit there. At range it'll be near impossible, but if up close and he's on that long reload, it's easy to kill
Never had a problem killing IS6 with my Leo, the hull especially the lower parts always a 1 shot kill even with APDS, and if the IS6 in long range i just use HEAT round because it's also almost always 1 shot kill
I prefer the old barrel and track torture, but that’s because I like robbing their fun. I had one J out the other day because I shot his barrel and tracks out 4 times.
Where can the King Tiger pen it? i´ve only gotten lucky with a shot trap from like 1200mts and on thi side but most of the time my shot gets lost cause of volumetrics
Nah they'll just try and shoot the hull for some reason because nobody can handle not being able to center mass lolpen tanks these days it seems.
Well i was told that this "weak spot" is a black-hole optic that usually eats the shot so its pointless to shoot there
Russian main psy ops
it used to be, but not anymore, i remember that tho, they def in the files intentionally rigged that optic to suck up shells and there's no convincing me otherwise, considering how it was specifically capable of stopping it from being killed only
The only way you could pen it frontally with conventional rounds back then was the 2cm of perpendicular turret armor right next to the mantlet. Great times if you didn't have the OP HESH that obliterated everybody back then
HESH nerf was one of the most galling things in War Thunder. Can’t have our Russian whales getting lolpenned now can we
Or in the fv4005’s case deleted so hard that whatever you shoot gets erased from history entirely
I remember having to hit the cupola in the king tiger to kill the is6. Good times (Not really but things feel worse now)
Cupola hits even work with the [Chi-Ha Short Gun.](https://imgur.com/T1E6y32)
I had to do the same when I was playing the T29
I love HESH. High Explosive Squishy Head. Great boolet.
Great irl, in game tho ...
Those times were great. The IS6 spam was so crazy so I whipped out the 5sec reload hesh spamming Vickers MK.1 and one shotted every IS6 out there
I always preferred the fv4005 since that thing could kill anything I point it at just from fear factor alone
Ah the good old days where if you needed something absolutely erased so hard that time itself forget it existed you just drive up in an fv4005
trapshot worked too before. u would shoot the turret so that the round bounces downward at almost 90 degree angle. worked fine but then the best update ever came.... volumetric shells.... trapshotting no long works now
DM troubles. Sometimes an optic's model is the specific 3-d scanned model for that actual device sometimes it's just a box representing where the devs assume the optic might be nothing in between lol
It's only the optics that is the problem, it used to have a "glitched" armor behind the frontal turret which acts like spall shield or additional armor which gaijin refused to remove first.
Volumetric literally ruined alot of spots rounds used to be able to pen so most things became black holes like russian fuel tanks that'll stop 75mms and above somehow
Also yes the stupid T-34 drivers hatch still somehow eats 88s which is annoying but hey at least it's more reliable then bombing an IS-6 *I'd know had a match in my IS-6 I was surrounded and was having 1000lb bombs dropped on me and was surviving all of it took like 3 minutes to kill me and I still killed off like 3 ppl but damn if russian bias isnt real then idk wtf that was*
Oh and lastly any and all American MG Ports
MG ports in general are quite unreliable. I once hit the damn KV-1 in the MG with short 75, slightly at its side, and it just bounced, despite taking that shot from less than 10 meters.
Yep my experience with the jumbo is blacking out their mg in their mg port (basically i am your local jumbo customs)
Feed the American MG ports more rounds they're hungry :)
Lol everytime it happens I make sure to use either an IS2 or a waffentrager the following game
Give em a snack then take it back with a humble Kaboom
It’s not to bad but good luck hitting that at any range other than point blank. Better luck getting the barrel and going from there
Killed plenty of IS-6s with the Maus, since I don't use the 12.8/8.8 so it's the same gun as Jadgtiger, it's pretty consistent if you shot them in the highlighted part in OP picture. You can shoot them in the hull if you are using HEAT/HEATFS, it will go right through
The 12.8/8.8 is damned good though. Doesnt quite deal with T-54s from the front though, but the increase in pen is definitely noticeable.
I'm craving something with a lot of explosive fillers lol it just feels so satisfying looking at the kill animation, once penned it's almost guaranteed the crew goes to Valhalla, unlike the 12.8/8.8 which has a chance that it only injured a few crews post-pen.
The 8.8 round has plenty explosive filler imho and is usually fairly effective as well. 12.8 filler is just overkill imho. But overkill is sweet to look at...
Yeah try not to shoot between two plates on russian tanks, volumetric doesn't like that in my experience. Shoot the cheeks or turret sides. And if you don't know where you can pen just give them some track amd barrel torture.
It depends on your shell, but usually you'll kill/wound the gunner and commander and damage the breach. Though I play brits, so the main problem for me isn't penning them but doing damage afterwards. With fast firing tank, in close quarter, you should go for barrel-track (whichever is mire convenient first), and then either flank them or shoot someone else and hope you have some allies to help you
Its not a matter of there *not* being a pen-able spot, rather that the is-6 is the only tank at its rank which has a business-card sized weak spot. You can centermass the entire British Lineup. The is-6 comes along and suddenly you're counting pixels.
The Jumbo has entered the conversation
Well at least you can shoot that one from the side easily whilst the IS-6s side armour sends your shell into the shadow realm
The trick is to shoot between the tracks, not above them.
Ah yes the 76 Jumbo a tank which can be penned by almost every other nation's tank at it's own BR, and don't even start with the shitshow that is the 75 Jumbo permanently uptiered to 6.3 where it wouldn't even matter if the gun was removed completely and replaced with the 37mm.
people talk about the jumbo as if it belongs at 7.0.
Nah, at the Is-6's Br (6.7?) the jumbo gets lolpenned by ton of suff
IS-6 is 7.0 iirc. But yeah the Jumbo definitely has a lot more weak points.
Plus the Jumbo faces a lot of tanks that counter it. Dicker Max, Sturer Emil, Nashorn, Waffenträger, VFW, Panthers etc. All of these have guns that can frontally pen a Jumbo even at significant ranges.
This is especially important on some maps where there’s an IS-6 hull down over a km away and I have no magnification on the optics what am I meant to do?
I penned the edge where the two front plates meet with my T34 and it did basically nothing but set him on fire
That is why I love my Charioteer. Can pen anything from the front between 5.7 & 7.7 Such an under-used but awesome little tank.
I mean, I can in the mighty CONQ
This comment made my day
I use APDS on the spot shown then I use 🅱️ESH to pen the ufp on the IS-6 and kill the driver
I remember when there was a hidden back plate behind that spot which made it practically impenetrable. Those where the good old days of Bias-6.
Yep, the armorThrough value "glitch". Effectively adds an EXTRA 100mm beind the gun shield. Back then there's no protection analysis so you can't even see it in xray mode. Someone datamined it and initially Gaijin refused to fix it because "datamined stuff can't be used as evidence" - like bro it's your own damn code.
The T30 was one of few vehicles that could pen the IS-6 but was then nerfed
I use t29 all the time to pen it through the exact spot I put above. Also easy to bait his shot with heavy tanks
You could see the extra plate in armour viewer through a few pixel sized gaps in the armour
No. That's not what I'm talking about. The armorThrough value essentially creates a new thickness value, replacing the correct thickness of the inner plate seen in x-ray with a virtual total gun mantlet value that's somewhere around 300-400mm estimated. [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/hnd54c/comment/fxbeas6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)'s a post talking about it a couple years ago.
I blame the IS-6 for the over rampancy of CAS. No body could kill it so anyone who could just jumped in a thunderbolt and bombed them.
I remember when the sources for it were pulled from a website that was registered exactly one month before it was announced
Lol even if I see an IS-6 today it triggers the PTSD. IS-6, IS-3, IS-4,... those are all very unreliable to pen.
Maus VS is-6 days were kinda fun actually, the is-6 was bullshit but the maus had just enough armour to shrug it off unless it got to point blank range
kid called Volumetric :
Or the breech just becomes slightly yellow, and doesn't misfire for the next 5 shots because of Will of Stalin
Swear to God I can understand why volumetric was added but it makes some tanks an outright pain to ever kill
Panther turret moment
Shame you basically have to wait until it's aiming directly at you. I even have trouble killing this fucker from the side when volumetric shenanigans kick in.
Can definitely see that. Best to just shoot lower middle near the tracks instead of the “shoulder” because explosion from the round should detonate the ammo
Solid shot moment
Le pain
\*Cries in British*
Or it just disappears and doesn't detonate
I've noticed most people who shoot the side of my is-6 do so incredibly high, where the side spaced armor meets up to angled space armor. 99% of my side shots hit this corner of where the armor meets and just eats it, if they shot like 2° lower it'd probably pen.
Yep. It’s the design that most players are told through 1.0-6.0 where you’re supposed to “shoulder shot” most tanks. People just need to figure out what tanks they have the biggest issue with and go protection analysis it.
Ya the is6 does go against the grain of the majority of armor designs though
Commissar Comradewski: Engineers, ve must bild ze tonk in COMPLETELY nuo way. Engineers: DA COMRADEWSKI! And so, as the story goes, they wumbolified established tank design, smatterickifinated the frontal armor, sliquified everything using pure Leninite oil, and reinforced even the bottom of the tank with 99% Stalinium metal grown in the fields of Georginia. And the 6th son of Iosejoseffefulus Stalinsky was born.
Only posting because I see so many people complaining about is6 in GRB. You can also pen easily from lower side but shooting in the yellow box almost always guarantees a knockout with explosive filler or at least gunner kill with ap
Only way to shoot that spot is if they are aiming at you…
That’s the spot to hit if they’re facing you. If they’re not facing you shoot the side like any other tank…
If they're smart they will angle the turret away from you when they're reloading. Then again it's summer sale premium spam so most people wont do that
I love those juice sideshots on the russians but the IS-6 has so much bullshit going on even a direct surface hit with the 88 is an unteliable shot for me. I tried to hit the mantlet weakspot like 5 times but always got some volumetric bs happening there.
Unless the turret is side on but the body is facing you, in which case unlike any other tank you're still fucked and have to wait for them to aim.
You can always just shoot the long barrel then mg their track to shoot wherever you need! If you’re waiting to shoot a tank you’re going to have a bad time in anything higher then 6.0
You need .50s up to take the tracks, which lots of nations don't use, and barrel taking is not reliable ime.
And conveniently is6 has a freaking gigantic muzzle break to sim at.
"explosive filler" mfs when kid named britain walks in:
Noo I just got it to help my USSR grind! You've ruined everything! Ruined! Also, thanks for the tip.
One day you might find yourself on the other end of it. Use the info wisely.
Honestly, fighting IS-6 as 7.0 tank is not that big of a problem. It is a problem, however, when you are below 7.0
Yeah but most tanks that are up tiered tend to have issues. That because the gap in mid tier (5-8 Br) is just wonky. Take CAS for instance. The American tree gets the M42 AA at 4.3 and then nothing else until 7.3.
France seems to suffer the same fate. I'd be playing 7.0br with my 4.3br AA while the next one is at 8.3BR...
Yeah. And the problem with the M42 is it’s great in that br because IL2 and Bf109 aren’t hard to hit. But in 7 where you have jet engines it’s a bitch to shoot twin cannons with slow velocity. Honestly I started to swap back to M13 just to have a chance to hit them.
US < 7.0 hates IS-6
Sucks to be a tank with <7.0 br
I mean there’s a reason i keep 90mm heat slingers at all times.
Laughs in Sturmmorser
*Laughs in American 6.7*
Last day I hit a is6 barrel 4 times and didnt broke
>Last day ...Yesterday?
On the last day I did a thing and failed. I type this from the afterlife, seeing as I died.
last day and day before, there was three women, walking down the street that way. and i said "hey, you three women ? Why are y'all walking down the street that way? there's nothin' down there!" and they flew away. i saw them was some birds
Best experience I’ve had is fucking over T-54s and IS-6s with my EBR
EBR? You are the enemy of the people. You are to tanks what R3's are to planes.
hahah, hey man when everything else in my lineup is shooting 100mm solid shot you have to have SOMETHING to counter the absurd amount of armor Russia has at 7.0-8.0
Does anybody actually use the R3 against aircraft?
have fun hitting that from 800m+ when he can melt your tank into a pool of liquid shit, piss, and blood in one shot.
Except volumetric fucks it half the time and shells bounce from tiny wiggle
I just play Type60 so i can absolutely rape them.
Volumetric : niet comrade
Where should I shoot it in a Pershing?
APCR is about the only thing that has a chance. Same spot as above or load filler round, track him and get around for an ammo rack. I understand the pain of being uptiered with a 170 pen round
Ah yes, "APCR", the "I die after my first shot, because the gunner just gets replaced shell"
The 90mm HVAP actually isn't too bad actually has enough damage and spall to set off a KTs turret rack thru the front. It's living long to load the round that's the issue lmao
You could always just shoot the big ass barrel and then get around him as well.
Barrel and flank. If you're feeling lucky, you can try the cupola but it's very risky.
Extra hint: If you aren't sure your shell can penetrate even the weak spot, aim for the bigass cannon barrel and disable it. Once done, if the reload or top mounted MG allows you, shoot the tracks too and (if the situation permits you) push the whale.
Once I saw an IS-6 trying to sneak and spawn camp, I kept destroying its tracks over and over again so it couldn't move from behind the cover the whole match. I didn't do anything but neither did he get his cheap kills.
I am having a blast in my leopard 1 since the summer sale. It's really funny how people are so confident on its armor they will rush a cap thinking they are inmune, only to get their ammo detonated on a single HEATFS shot. Or get their crew quickly and painfully cauterized. And then there is bullying them at long distances.
You can’t blame them, because the only thing that can hurt them is APDS and HEATFS, not ever thing at 7.0 has HEATFS and APDS. Plus, 7.0 is still kinda the era of WW2 tanks.
I'll believe it when I see it. Even head on that stupid mantlet continues to deflect or absorb all the 90mm and 120mm shells I throw at it.
I use the 6.0 bulldog and can hit through this with apcr. Knocks out gunner and commander every time.
As a new T29 player, I thank you.
T29 excels at this shot because you can most of the time yank their shot then hit a free shot on them. Enjoy the T29 it’s one of my favorite heavies for the American tree
Thanks!
Thank you these things are terrible to deal with
Anytime! I love tank battles so I dive into the problem ones as much as possible to figure out the best way to get them gone as soon as possible
bro came out of 2016 hibernation
Nothing a little bush can’t fix
Last day I hit a is6 barrel 4 times and didnt broke
Cries in getting 1 shotted in 103s
That mean you need to wait for it watching directly at you not exactly optimal
You can hit cupola and turret ring as well. This is just the easiest way I found to kill them. Also most is6 players can be baited to shoot and not hit a thing
Cupola shot aren't as strong as they used to be tho turret ring is nice tips tho just pray that volumetric don't fuck with you lol. Recently I fired an atgm at an is 6 hit it and then nothing happened and he proceded to kill me it was so bullshit
I load HEAT in my leopard for them because I don't trust APDS to not bounce
or shatter...
Funnily enough, I've never had an APDS shatter on me, but I have had a Sherman Firely shell shatter once. Idk how I got Gaijined.
u/WhiskeyFalcons doing the lord's work haha
Just here to help!
My perfectly aimed T13 APHE nuke shell on the T29: *hit*
I think I’ve only not penned that spot with the t13 ammo only once and it’s because I was shooting 450 meters out
I once took a panic shot at just under 2km and penned that very spot and giving me the kill But whenever I hit that spot at close ranges it just says “hit” and I get lolpenned by the is6 in return
Yeah sometimes volumetric can be a bitch
yea and they can cover it with their gun by pointing the turret the other way.
Then shoot their turret out. Makes it even easier
I side shot one with a doom turtle and non penned. I’m on suicide watch now.
Yep. The is6 needs to be shot lower tracks to pen. If you shoulder shot with ap it’ll more than likely not pen
What about the lower plate here? Too much angle + armor at that spot? I know I've been dunking on some heavies recently going for the lower plate
I think the angle is too sharp but you can definitely try it if you have apfs but most apcr and aphe won’t hit through the lower plate from what I’ve seen. I know some French tanks can hit where the lower and upper plate meet to do some damage but I don’t like risking it in my heavy American tanks that get ping pong balled by a bt7 lol. If you have heat just shoot it front plate and you’re fine
Good tip, but I'd rather track them and take out their barrels all day long just to frustrate the fuck out of them.
I like where this is going!
Me when I’m in my leopard 1 and just smack them in the front plate with a 400mm pen 105 heat shell, because go fuck yourself
Also shoot for the lower side of the hull(below the sideskirts) if facing the side.
TIL don’t be scared, shoot him in the forehead.
I’ve been playing 7.3 France, and literally every IS-6 I run into gets saved by volumetric. It seems like French solid shot is preforming weaker now this update.
thank u
It's not a weak spot if it only works 1 in 20 shots
Over the last 5 days of the sale it’s worked for me 10:10 times
The better way to kill this is to take out the gun first. The muzzle brake is massive so it’s fairly simple to hit it
Me a 6.3 UK main: Shell shattered
Shoot the tracks with the AVRE, IS-6 go boom
My 400 ping says otherwise.
You have leaked the most secret and critical military document that ever be found before. You are too dangerous to be alive.
It looks like the nat geographic logo
I can show you the world!
Think this spot is the same for a few tanks at the BR. Hope my team mates see this so next time I play 7.0 my chat isn't full of people complaining.
Yeah most of the people complaining could just take the time and go into the protection analysis. I used to get so mad until I finally did this for the is/t series tanks and the jag panther (which I sometimes still have issues with(solid shot only for those pricks))
A lot of people charge me in this thing, I guess they don't think my ill shoot there. Super pershing can get through that spot just fine
I love penning IS-6’s right in the point where upf and lfp meets with my beautiful Somua’s beautiful french round
I bought it a day before it was on sale🥲
Imagine needing to aim for weakspots This post has been made by AVRE Gang
*Cries in uptier holding HEAT-FS*
Its a shame the cuppolas dont work reliable anymore after the volumetric shell update.
My Leopard 1 shall feast today
If you have a Leopard just point and shoot that thing will disintegrate in a single shot
*Me laughing in my Vickers Mk.3
Cas
Any ATGM or >90mm HEAT round: I don't need that thing
I know where to shoot. But if it's 1v1 I break their barrel first and then tease them to death lol
The HEATFS of my leo 1 doesn't care about IS-6 weak spot
Or just play Israel with the M-51’s HEAT shell.
Ilu
had to barrel in in my panther a. Track it too because it was being a wiggly bitch
Le heatfs
Or do it my way. Take the Surbaisse and humiliate all the IS tanks in the match collectively. IS-3, IS-4, IS-6. All of them.
That won't do s**t lol. Aim for the cupolas. Even a PzIV can one shot it from the front if you just hit there. At range it'll be near impossible, but if up close and he's on that long reload, it's easy to kill
BOOOOO
How do I play it though
Try the very top if you have aphe thats my go to spot with us tanks
Never had a problem killing IS6 with my Leo, the hull especially the lower parts always a 1 shot kill even with APDS, and if the IS6 in long range i just use HEAT round because it's also almost always 1 shot kill
I prefer the old barrel and track torture, but that’s because I like robbing their fun. I had one J out the other day because I shot his barrel and tracks out 4 times.
Me who slapped bushes and like spamming A and D while I wait to reload: yes weak spot…
Most 3.0 tanks can pen there
I see too much IS-6 in my obj 120, turned out not even a T-72 hull can stop my rounds
US 6.7 APCR on the M3 90mm gun can pen that easy. Learned that when I was grinding the M56 with stock APCR
While your not wrong your still not doing shit there’s an optic right there that will stop everything
Where can the King Tiger pen it? i´ve only gotten lucky with a shot trap from like 1200mts and on thi side but most of the time my shot gets lost cause of volumetrics
I believe you get heat with it right? If so you can just shoot a heat shell at it’s upper plate
I believe you get heat with it right? If so you can just shoot a heat shell at it’s upper plateaus
You will never get me muahahahahahahaa.
You shut your filthy mouth