Company of heroes 2 | IS-2 vs German Heavy tanks

IS-2 a very powerful Soviet heavy tank against some of the best Axis heavy tanks in Company of Heroes 2.

[rkerto]

I like how you put the IS-2 on the right and Whermacht on the left just like on the Eastern Front

[Ribs]

This is why allies rely on their Tank Destroyers or other means such as off-maps to kill axis heavies rather than using heavies of their own. The IS-2 might be tanky but it has mobility problems (which it shouldn't), its main gun can't reliably penetrate thick armor unlike SU-85s or Jacksons (which it shouldn't) and it's armor and main gun AoE was nerfed several patches ago.

For allies, medium is premium imo.

[generalrommel]

So historically accurate that a 122mm reloads faster than a Tiger II 88mm

[drinkyourwater]

IS-2 in real life
-Can penetrate every single piece of enemy armor, even the Tiger II's turret and with the APCR the Jagdtiger casamate
-Have a gigantic explosive filler and by the big gun, a massive cinetic energy, that can one shot everything
-120 mm front plate angled at 60º, bouncing even the KWK 88 from the Tiger I easily
-Chosen by finger Veteran crew from T-34 aces, scoring high kills in the eastern front
-the 122 mm was deadly against infantry, because of it's HE fragmentation shell

IS-2 in COH2
-Help the big cat is stronk
-why my shot bounced
-help commanda, there is too many panzershrecks
-i've been hit with panzerfaust, my engine gone :0
-i missed the shot
-i've hit the shot and it did only 1/5 of the tiger's life in damage

[JackBodnar]

While IRL IS-2 one taps Tigers in any projection since 122mm is no joke. And don’t tell me relic isn’t biased towards Axis, I am Ostheer main and I feel superiority, especialy during team games

[vladislavgvozdikov]

The practical results of firing from the D-25T and A-19 cannons at the firing range at German captured tanks with a blunt-headed BR-471B projectile from a range of 1400 m showed the following results.
The PzKpfw IV Ausf H tank was pierced through the frontal and aft armor plates.
The PzKpfw V Panther tank, when hit in the upper frontal part of the armored hull, received a hole of 150×230 mm with a crack along the weld; when hit in the side of the turret, a hole of 130×130 mm was formed, the opposite side of the turret was also pierced and it was torn off along the weld. When hit in the forehead of the tower, a hole of 180×240 mm was formed, the tower was torn from the shoulder strap and shifted 500 mm from the axis of rotation.
The tank PzKpfw VI Ausf E "Tiger I" when hit by a 122-mm shell in an already existing hole from an 85-mm shell in the frontal armor plate was left without an 82-mm aft armor plate, torn out along the welds, the shell went through all the internal equipment of the tank. When hit in the roof of the tower (thickness 40 mm, angle of inclination 80° to normal), there was a dent with a crack from the ricocheted projectile; when hit in the forehead of the tower, a hole of 580×130 mm was formed, the tower itself was torn from the shoulder strap and shifted 540 mm from the axis of rotation.
The JagdPz "Ferdinand" self-propelled gun did not break through the forehead — the 122-mm shell pierced the first frontal 100-mm armor plate with the formation of a hole of 120×150 mm, but it was reflected from the second, when it hit the wheelhouse, a dent 100 mm deep remained in the armor plate.
In early November 1944, a captured heavy tank PzKpfw VI Ausf B "Tiger II" was fired at the Kubinka training ground. A 122-mm sharp-headed shell pierced the upper frontal part (at the joints of the armor plates) from 600 m, the own 88-mm gun "Tiger II" KwK 43 coped with this armored barrier from 400 m, and the 75-mm gun "Panther" pierced the forehead of the "Tiger II" from 100 m.

[thevickers]

Love how the tank literally superior to a Tiger I in every way possible will easily lose a fight against it in this game.

[felghanalavochkin]

The base damage of JS2's 122mm gun is an embarrassing 160. 160! The same as a T34!!! Whereas Jagtiger(128mm) and Elephant's(long barrel 88) are 300, Jackson(90mm) is 200. The germans have better armored and armed tanks with generally bigger health bar. I can deal with the non-penetrating shots from time to time as long as the damage are potent which they are not at the time. To say that Relic has a german bias is an understatement for sure.

[marknc]

The COH2 in game description for the IS-2 says that the IS-2 is recommended for countering medium armor.

[gracjanklein]

i still waiting for AT soviet 100mm 1944

[vict]

the is2 in coh2 is mod.1944，it has a t-54 level's amour on the upper Amor plate. And also the right side of the turrent is tougher than mod.1943. The mod.1944 should be stronger than tiger.

[bggraham]

This video really needs at least half of the german tanks to break down mid fight

[sinisterisrandom]

Soviets were notoriously known for their massssive impact in the war and the results at the end to this day are still be calculated and located.

[viniciusferreira]

German tanks are strong as hell, but the IS-2 is nerfed here in this game. IS-2 mod 1944 is stronger than Tiger I

[lordtomlluckrahthegreat]

I never understood why the German high command felt the need to make so many different kinds of heavy tanks. Wasn't the Tiger enough?

Why did they they feel the need to make an upgraded version of the Tiger, the Tiger II, with more armor and a bigger gun, but still a crew of five for a tank that was many times heavier and even more of a pain in the ass to repair. To fight what? Shermans? T-34? Maybe they were mad that the Churchill had more armor than the Tiger, so they wanted to compensate for it with a sequel. Also, for some reason, they gave the contract to two companies, so they ended up with two different versions of the Tiger II, of which they would only make use of one (technically).

And then they decided that the Königstiger wasn't heavy enough, so they designed the Jagdtiger, and the Sturmtiger, and the Maus, and the Elefant, and the FREAKING 10000 BILLION TON RÄTTE. IF THE KÖNIGSTIGER WASN'T HEAVY ENOUGH, THEN WHY THE HECK DID THEY EVEN DESIGN IT????

Oh, but, you see, the Tiger was too heavy to begin with! So they went for a medium-heavy tank (what Wehraboos will call "the first MBT"), the Panther (which sounds exactly like "Panzer" btw, shit name) which is personally one of my favourite tanks, but it was just such a piece of crap. "Soviet inspired" yeah, right; the only thing they got right from the soviets is that it was manufactured by a group of conscripted toddlers who had a gun pointed to the back of their heads, and was probably driven by said toddlers to battle once finished.

That thing broke down every single time, just like a commie tank! Except, since it's made with "superior German uber-tech", it's impossible to repair in the field.

Seriously, why didn't they just stick with Tigers and Panzer III? They worked just fine! Though, in retrospect, I am glad they did waste their resources like they did so they'd loose the war faster.

[PacKaTZero]

lol
Tiger 1 could only penetrate the IS 2 from 500 meters in the frontal projection, is-2 destroyed the tiger with a single hit of a 122mm cannon from a distance of more than 1.5 kilometers, the attacks can be viewed in Russia in Kubinka

[saumiktajwar]

Why does the KT have less range then the Tiger, didn't the KT have the long 88?

[MegaKaiser]

I didn’t know the OKW had Tiger tanks.
Cool!

[steliosvagianos]

Y'all crying in the comments forget the dumtruck of resources each of the Heavy tanks require. Especially the OKW. To put out a KT you need to spend too many resources, and by the time you do, the allies will have two mediums or two tank destroyers on their side each.

This goes for every OKW tank. They're mad expensive, even to get to the point of producing them.

The only allies I consider annoyingly good are the British but in terms of infantry/arty only. Other than that, yeah, the germans have many advantages. Though allies lack the tank advantage, they have many others

None of the allies were built to match German armor, but all of them can reliably deal with it.

[xDDiscoDx]

The reason i play with realism mods, this HP bar game is a joke