Still have bad memories from way back when it actually was over powered (armor layer behind the mantlet had incorrect values) which was set to something like 150-200mm giving it 350-400mm or so of ACTUAL armor.

i remember when the IS-6 came out along with the RU-251. first game in my T-29 i was run down by a IS-6 swarm. couldn't play my Germans either because of the IS-6 swarm. so like a loser i bought in on it and joined in the fun of a never ending winning streak. it took gaijin forever to fix things like this so i had A TON OF BATTLES in the tank. it became my top tank played on my profile in no time. i'm scum of the earth for buying in on the prime time pay-to-win, i know. but i had to drive that tank because it was so damn fine. i would have bought the thing even if it was at 7.7. those russians knew how to make really good looking tanks.

IS-6 has insane angled armour. I was in T-55A with APFSDS and it bounced of him 3 times. Upper front plate , side plate and once turret. Heckin bs man its hella OP

I dont have the IS 6 or 7 but I have the T 10A from whatever pass it was. I honestly don't remember. But I honestly really like it. ALSO I have the KV1C and yeah that just bounces literally everything I love it

2:40 YES, I'm not the only one, the Panther-A mantle is a dice roll every single time. You either kick ass or get your ass kicked in. Also include the IS-2 mantle (both 5.7 and 6.3 variants), and the T-34-85 when using something like a Jumbo.

I recommend the is6 because you can get down tiered to 6.7 and 6.3 but you will struggle when your up against heat and apds but other than that you are very likely to bounce almost everything in a down tier

The combination of going down to 7.0 and volumetric shells made this thing great again. In an uptier I just play it like a medium, you have the speed and low profile to be sneaky. And ofc in a downtier is press W to win

Every time I played with Panzer 4 and 3 I was afraid of KV. They were just Indestructible

Excellent video as always! It’s a great tank to have backing you up, but truly terrifying to run into.

Okay I instantly like your videos you explain it well and I can actually understand something for once thank you keep posting more videos I would love to watch more

If you're close enough, the best place to shoot the IS-6 with APHE are the hatches. They give you a 90 degree surface and when your round explodes it'll either knock out the tank or at the very least disable the turret long enough to finish it. It was legit the best strategy for us in SQBs when the IS-6 first released. You really learned how to counter the IS-6 when every battle was XvX IS-6's.

This Video was really well done. I appreciate the work behind it :)

Me, an Italian main: heat-fs to the side plate=BOOM, ammo rack. Also, the KV1c was never a problem for my Brenda bus or 90/53 m41m. Just don't get hit.

First time watching your channel and I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality, from commentary to visuals. Definitely sticking around. :)

Wow what an engaging fun yet informative review. Keep it up

Thanks for the review, you deserve so much more views and likes, keep the hard work bro!

why do you only have 900 subs? this is pretty good. before I looked i thought you had about 50k or like spookston.

Excellent review style, please keep it up. I have almost every tank but I don’t enjoy the sweatfests in the higher tiers (despite having bought most of the premiums in one sale or another - d’oh!). Anyway, so I’m enjoying these reviews of mid lowish tier stuff.

i just found this channel and the quality is insane. keep up the good work :D

Brilliant video, good production quality too.

What a refreshing review, you can have a new sub for that😉

I see this channel going very far

Really good as usual. Love your videos man :))

Awesome video man, these new war thunders KZfaqrs are definitely quality over quantity

My nemisis when I still played was the flat panzer, which made killing them with a backwatds IS-2 increadibly cathartic

Good content keep it coming and keep growing.

Best war thunder video i’ve watched in a while

love your music choices

I already have the IS 6 but i find your videos fun to watch keep up the work. But really how do you not have more subs.

Your honesty great and deserve more subs keep it up

your experience against the kv IC is like my experience i once used all of my t-34 on a kv IC side i didn t pen once

Its due to tanks like this that I love vehicles with the go anywhere-kill anything capability like the SU-152, SU-85, Nashorn etc. The 152 can easily kill a jumbo frontally, even at an angle where the long-88 can sometimes bounce.

This is a fantastic video. I hope you get more attention soon.

I havent even gotten above 4.0 yet in rating and this video is fun to watch still. Ill sub for future warthunder things.

damn, good and fuuny edting skills. you had me subbed

That’s my man! Good video, Red Head

honestly I never had a problem with is-6, after first few enconters It got pretty easy to beat, if you have low pen just shoot the gun then track so he wont escape, then flank if safe. I love when is-6 just goes like mad man for me in any british tank at 7.0 range, I also forget a lot when playing UK that u can pen tigers 2 and panthers in front plate XD

I bought the is6 BECASUE of this. (Kinda) Ur content is insane keep it up. ( Funny and engaging and seems reliable )

Great vid! Idk why you dont have more subs

There is something that I want you to look at. It's the T114. 7.3 light tank premium for America . personally I really like the tank and I think it's really good even to bring to top tier. Just a random video idea

Love the TF2 music in the background!

Great vid earned yourself a sub 🤙

New favorite war thunder youtuber. You don’t seem like those shitpost channels and you keep me engaged and somehow end up making me laugh/smile. Good luck with your career :)

This content is amazing, it seems like you have more subs than you actually have.

Might be a tedious one, but have you thought of reviewing the M60A3 TTS? The M60 series is one of the most iconic tank designs, still in service around the world half a century after it first saw usage, but it gets overshadowed in Warthunder by the Abrams, especially its final American variant. Would be cool to see your opinion on how it fares against the current Warthunder meta!

Your videos are pretty good keep up the good work

The IS-6/IS-3 both had a hidden 100mm steel plate behind the manlet, it was removed long ago, because of that it was more efficient to shoot commander's cupoula with any APCBC, nowadays just look at the armour in the hangar an simulate a shot to feel sure where to shoot.

I've always preferred my beloved KV-220 when it comes to completely broken prems. Sure the IS-6 has some satisfying moments, but nothing compares to taking on panther and tiger spam head on and coming out on top because you're more often than not fighting people who have never had to learn to aim and feel like they don't need to in those machines. Wheeling out something that can very realistically kill them but that they have to think about is so so satisfying after the misery that was 5.0-6.7 with basically every other nation I've played (China, UK, Japan, France)

How the hell do you only have 1.15k subs?!?! This is some super high quality stuff right here

IS-6 can take a surprisingly lot of beating even though I have it constantly uptiered due to having object 120 in the same lineup. I really like it. I also thought 205mm of pen would be suffering but in this game it works really well compared to wot due to most tanks being paper thin at 7 br and up

I'm unsure if I was just lucky but I never seemed to struggle against the is6 , probably because I'm too used to shooting the barrel then picking the tank apart. I remember one time it killed me twice in a row and since I didn't have a proper german lineup I took my good ol pz/IV-70 and caught it off guard with a side shot. Even so seeing any russian 122 gun looking towards me is enough to send massive shivers down my spine.

Though i already have this tank, it was a very useful video, thank you

Ever since I bought the Somua the other day I haven’t been afraid of the IS6

Bought this in a sale and havent really used it until about a week ago, helps me look like i can play Warthunder lol 👏👍👌✌🤘🖖🤙

I bought it a long time ago when summers sale still meant 50% off for most packs. I am not the best at tanks, but this tank is just fun.

firstly, this channel will blowup. secondly i havent played warthunder in years and you make me wanna install it and buy an is6 lmao

Amazing vid

Well I have been thinking of picking this up for a while now, and since there's a sale currently going on I guess this is as good a time as any!

I miss 6.7 british line ups because those apds rounds worked pretty well on taking out the is6s breach and taking out a crewmember along with it

well i didn't even realize IS-6 was so good and powerful until my friend told me how good it is and you just prove it the reason i didn't realize was IKV 91 from sweden that i used against it :D (400mm pen heatfs + laser rangefinder)

You´re a genius man

great video my friend love from Indonesia :)

The lower side armour behind the tracks is a very reliable spot that I always shoot

As a Swedish main I don't have to worry until I inevitably miss my extremely easy shot against an IS-6.

I love the videos

IS-6 is the first and only premium I bought and it iss a literal Beast. I made more cash than I could in weeks only in matter of a day with it. Well if they gave this tank the shell IS-3 has which pens 230+ , it would be better. Only problem is that you basically can't do much thing against heat rounds which will probably ammo rack you through hull.

I just bought the is-6 along with the turms. Really happy with it :D

Loving the PVZ music

Good shill video. Think I'll get it next sale. (I don't even play GRB much, I have top tier air in 4 nations but I haven't managed to get past 6.3 in USSR)

Am new to the game… was searching for the best Russian premium to buy… and got to see this… it’s the best IS6 review in a fun and informative way… u earned a sub… !!!

Remember when IS-6 added to the game for first time? IT'S ABSOLUTELY NIGHTMARE

i still remember when people had to data mine this thing because it had overly broken armor all the way around

from my experience playing the tigre 2 i found that you can pen the cupola because it doesnt have volume metric yet and it will kill the tank in 1 or 2 hits

The biggest weakspot the IS6 have is in the front xD Its the in the middel from the front you can see a luke where the driver watch out. You cant miss that :D

2:20. Uh oh, Gaijin's plan worked. The only thing nice about the is-6 when it was added was that it was so cathartic to kill with Japanese heat-fs at 6.7

Ambient temperature affects velocity in WT with bigger and slower rounds having more noticeable deviations.

thanks

lovely video

The bane existence of the Leopard 1 is scary enough to make a IS-6 player get scared to it's core

Ah yes, I remember how my first match with the t26e5 I met this thing with my 90mm

You made me buy this

I have fun playing against a is-6 in a leopard due to going full speed around one and evading another in one game

this thing went from meta, to punching bag, to meta again.

Idk if the is6 was in 2015 but when I saw it in my tiger 2 or panther 2, I just ran away. It was 6.7 back in the day

as an is-6 player, i got scared when i saw the amg 😨

I love how you added PvZ music

Ever since the heat spam from 6.7 onwards became a thing, the is6 isn't really a challenge anymore... even back then with heat in the m46 you could lolpen it

1:38 but that cupola is screaming "SHOOT ME!" is 6 is a beast tho, if you dont get a cupola shot its gg for you

I once killed an is-6 with my Panther A

Honestly the only counters that I have found to work reliably against the IS-6 are the Maus and the funny French HEAT cars.

We not gone talk about the object 279

I play the T34, and HISTORICALLY SPEAKING. their armor was heat treated to 600-700 bernell. Everyone else was 300-450 bernell. The T34 had a reputation of being knocked out but the tank still functioned perfectly, because the Soviets heat treated it so hard the armor spalled, even from small caliber shells the crew inside would be killed or wounded by flying spall. The T34 in WT should suffer from the same issues, especially those that were war time produced.

I remember one battle where i shot is-6 right into his (our) ammorack 3 times and it didnt even kill him

Hey! I was wondering, do you have a good 7.0 lineup? If so may i know whats in said lineup?

I don't have the IS-6 but i like the T-10M even though it has less favorable odds. It's just amazing to use it and kill mid-cold war era mbts with it

Im so scared of IS-6s that now I always bring a tank with HEAT whenever I play a br where IS-6 spawns

will you make a video about the japanese Ho-I? It is at 2.0, but it is fast, has good armor, 15 degs of gun depression, and a mini nuke shell. It's APHE has 480g of TNT in it, basically one shots anything. It also has HEAT, and a surprisingly good HE (12mm pen, and since the APHE cant pen late Pz IVs and IIIs, i just load the HE, and overpressure them on the turret top xd)

im primarily a russian player and i couldn't understand your frustration until you compared the mantlet of the t34 and kv1 to a PANTHER. I instantlyfelt you and understood what you were talking about when you said shooting it it feels like a dice roll. Its for that very reason that when im player russia 5.3-5.7(no is-2) and i see a panther i don't go for the mantlet i shoot the gun than the track and then if i can flank to kill otherwise if im unable to flank. THAN AND ONLY THAN DO I RISK A MANTLET SHOT.

Those weak spots are only available for higher pen cannons British mains: "i can pen you anywhere" AVRE and 4005: "i just need a hit" *huge grin*

I went up against an IS-6 with an IS-4M and neither of us could pen each other XD