Profile of Katukov

Allies dont need much flanking they have superior AI to disrupt an AT gun line.

(Never played allies)

In the Pershing you're basically getting a Panther in tank vs tank, but it fires HE shells at infantry. Panther is a tank destroyer whose anti-infantry capability is purely mg-based dps, so it's terrible against retreating squads/vetted/elite infantry/yellow cover, and has to stay stationary within snaring range to deal damage.

I like how the two or three people complaining in this thread keep comparing Heavy Tank vs Panther as if Heavy Tanks fired only AP rounds and weren't used mainly for bleeding infantry and as spearheads for pushes. It's 99% a L2P issue.

Use heavy tanks vs infantry and not in long-range brawls with tank destroyers. If a single Panther is killing your Pershing (moves faster than a p4, with armour and health of a Panther) or your IS2 (takes an average of more than 1 minute to for a Panther to kill an IS2 by itself), what the heck are you doing with your 15 apm? Just....reverse?

But you really don't need to use the panther as anti-infantry though, you have the best non-doctrinal anti-infantry tank in the game and rocket arty in the same tier, the panther instead has amazing tank and AT stats, because Wehrmacht is designed with extremely strong specialist tanks. Ignoring that fallacy aside, people are annoyed that the panther can basically neutralize a visibly more expensive allied heavy tank (that you can get only one of), on top of standing right in front of them. A tiger's easily gonna beat allied TDs if they stand right in front of them, but panther has considerable armor and 960 HP, it has almost as much durability as your praised IS-2 does


all that would be a fine thing, if the tiger wasn't better than both of these tanks, for the same cost. truly bizarre, innit? not only does the go out of it's way and kill infantry better than the is-2 is supposed to, but it has a mobility buff and potentially smoke, so you will really hardly kill one of these.

Now, for the """spearhead""" method - you aren't gonna do that lol, you are NOT a king tiger, you wont delete squads if you simply look at them, hell, you are an obese T-34/85, not a heavy tank. The enemy isn't stupid, two paks will follow your IS-2 and will not simply let you farm meager models with the horrible scatter your gun has.

I saw maybe three is-2s being used in the last 2 or so months, but i saw dozens and dozens of tigers in the meanwhile, saw more tigers in 1 match than IS-2s since june.


15 APM might even be advanced for axis players, god forbid i ever see such an enemy in my game

The Pershing could use a slight buff in the AI department. Right now all heavies, maybe with the exception of the KV-2, are pretty much on level terms when it comes to sustained AI damage and kills/sec - some have more punch on a per shot basis (IS-2, Pershing), others make up for the lower AoE by greater rate of fire (Tiger variants). If the Pershing is supposed to stand out as an AI-focused generalist it should outperform its contemporaries by more than just the 5-10% it does currently.
That or a slight price adjustment would be a decent call IMHO.

Yeah except the accuracy of the tiger lets it randomly execute 5 models, on top of consistently bleeding squads
the is-2 at vet 0 is lucky if he hits the same sector where the enemy INF is, and the problem only gets solved at vet 2 (and with vet 1 ability). the tiger has considerably better accuracy than the is-2, better AT stats and what not, on top of facing largely less durable tanks. IMHO the is-2 is unreliable, the issue of having soviet units use abilities to mimic axis counterpart's effectiveness

The Pershing and Panther are almost identical in tank vs tank combat yet you're losing all the time lol.

IS2 has 340 armour and 1080 health, which is a huge defensive advantage over the Panther.

You are truly one of the worst players to ever play this game if you are consistently losing your heavy tanks in 1vs1 battles with Panthers.

Most importantly, good players use heavy tanks to bleed enemy infantry and as spearheads for their pushes - no one builds the IS2 to try to chase and counter enemy Panthers. That's what tank destroyers and AT guns are for. Please go back to the tutorial first.

the pershing being identical to the panther but costing 230 fuel isn't a good thing

the is-2 also faces the stat-wise best AT guns in the game, a panther can still leave an is-2 at dangerously low HP in a 1v1. You might win a 1v1, but even the slightest support for the panther and your is-2 will be forced to abandon any fight. even a p4 or single shrek squad can basically route the is-2

the is-2 is completely unreliable to deal with infantry blobs, the worst soviet heavy tank to do so in the soviet faction. otherwise the is-2 might be the worst heavy tank in general (for SOV), the kv-2, isu-152 (and even the axis counterpart tiger) are all better at doing their job (which overlaps with what the is-2 is supposed to do).
yeah, you can use the is-2 to spearhead, but the kv-1 does the same for way cheaper, and you can get more of them. unrelated, but pity the fool took armored assault and made an is-2 against the jagdtiger okw player

UKF assault infantry sections have their upgrade binded with the same keybind as one of their nades, so you must upgrade them manually

It always felt strange and unnecessary to me, along with the 6th Assault Grenadier. Five should be the max for the entire faction.



Axis is supposed to keep to a low model count theme of well equipped infantry, of which Panzerfusiliers certainly are. It has to be said though that the balance team had a massive success with Panzerfusilier rework and the Sturm Offizier. Anyone remember how clunky these units were before the New Commander Patch?

I liked the forced retreat if the officer model dies, it punished blobbing, something pfusiliers are basically made for. at least it doesn't have the funny free aura around it, but instead it has "hey you will retreat 1 squad and be outnumbered lololol", which gets annoying if spammed.


Why the pfusiliers have minute 0 snare is beyond me. It has a considerably longer range than a volks pfaust...