If you want a 50 range tank killer, that is what the panther is for.
It's also the lowest DPS tank in the game next to the firefly, it's for hunting single highly armored tanks, not hordes of tanks.
They also have a cheap 50 range TD
Okay? That's not a 60 range TD and it just got nerfed.
a 70 range heavy tank destroyer
Which you can't have at the same time as a Tiger I, hence my point.
and a 70 range AT gun
Which you can't have at the same time as a Tiger I, assume your talking about the Pak43 (which Ostheer only very rarely uses).
Not to mention the best infantry AT in the game.
Panzergrens with shrek's haven't been meta in ages.
There is no reason to inflate the tiger to deal with absolutely everything.
Dude it's just 5 more range, this is just so it can kite a little to deal with the fact the level of AT on the field has ramped up significantly. The Tiger I is not hard to kill by any stretch of the imagination.
The pen buff alone makes it better then the IS-2 in every way despite also being cheaper.
It's not cheaper. And it's pen is similar to the IS2's, it has 10 less at close and 10 more at far.
Not to mention the recent pop cost buff.
Which the IS2 also got
Buffing it's range even on top of that is just ridiculous and only serves to reduce it's few disadvantages.
It got the same buffs all heavy tanks got.
I don't want to go back to players building Tigers every single game.
As opposed to almost nobody making them?