T-44-122 or IS-6?

[dibil]

which premium should i get?

[The One True Git]

I would go IS-6 myself. Its not the monster it once was, but the reload on it is sooooo much better than the 122 t44 and that is its saving grace.

Edit- I have both tanks and its just one of the most glaring advantages to point out.

[Mr_Melnyk]

Never had any problems with IS-6 riding T34 and M46.

[DarkRaider®]

is 6 is good choice for p2w gameplay

[The One True Git]

Originally posted by ☭ommunism101:

Originally posted by TheHashSlingingSlasher:

I would go IS-6 myself. Its not the monster it once was, but the reload on it is sooooo much better than the 122 t44 and that is its saving grace.

Edit- I have both tanks and its just one of the most glaring advantages to point out.

sure, the reload is better, but the IS-6 has +1.0 higher BR then the T-44.
im looking for a tank thats good at its BR.
i also heard the T-44 is really fast.
also, the IS-6 doesnt seem to have a very well lineup at 7.3,
while you can get the 1944 IS-2 with the normal T-44 as a lineup to the T-44-122.
also, i heard the IS-6 has really bad gun depression.. (i mean all russian tanks have bad gun depression but i heard on the IS-6 its especially bad)
is the IS-6 really that much better then the T-44?
it doesnt seem like the IS-6 is worth it.

I'm not saying the IS-6 is that great, its just better than 122 T-44 in my experience. The armor is okay for the IS, but thats not what I rely on utilizing it. Its heavy tank with a good reload on good overmatching gun, that has medium tank mobility. All those factors together make it superior imo.

[Pumba70]

Don't have the IS-6 so I can't speak on that.

I did get the T-44-122 at a 75% discount though, and I do like the tank.
It's not overpowered by any stretch of the imagination, but it is basically a better IS-2 (mobility wise, which seems to be the thing that always gets me killed in the IS-2). The mobility is its saving grace, there's moments when I would shoot a Tiger 2 for example, not kill him, then be able to get out of his line of sight and round the building until my shell was reloaded and kill him while he had no chance turn his gun on me. Basically, the tank is a mini IS-2 on a T-44 chasis.

I would imagine the IS-6 is probably the "better" grinding tank and is more viable at higher tiers, but I don't have it so you would have to listen to what others here have to say.

[The One True Git]

Originally posted by Pumba70:

Don't have the IS-6 so I can't speak on that.

I did get the T-44-122 at a 75% discount though, and I do like the tank.
It's not overpowered by any stretch of the imagination, but it is basically a better IS-2 (mobility wise, which seems to be the thing that always gets me killed in the IS-2). The mobility is its saving grace, there's moments when I would shoot a Tiger 2 for example, not kill him, then be able to get out of his line of sight and round the building until my shell was reloaded and kill him while he had no chance turn his gun on me. Basically, the tank is a mini IS-2 on a T-44 chasis.

I would imagine the IS-6 is probably the "better" grinding tank and is more viable at higher tiers, but I don't have it so you would have to listen to what others here have to say.

The t44-122 is really really good in patient hands because of that reload. Shoot/Scoot/Hide/Repeat, its why I'm not great with it. What the IS-6 lacks in raw speed it makes up for in armor (not much of positive in war thunder tbh) and reload.

[Pumba70]

Originally posted by ☭ommunism101:

to me, the IS-6 just seems like an T-44-122, but 1 entire BR higher for... faster reload... more armor... and slower speed?
and lets be honest armor in this game barely ever matters, soo we can put that point away.. soo basically the IS-6s only advantage is a faster reload, but for that you get +1.0 higher BR then the T-44, and slower speed.
no thanks, doesnt sound like the IS-6 is a good choice.
i think im going T-44.

I'd look into the RP gain of the two tanks, I believe both tanks are T4 but the IS-6 might have a better reload. I know people are saying armor is irrelevant, but if the IS-6 gets downtiered below 7.0 there is a good chance you will run into tanks like the King Tiger, T-29 (and other variants), and others that would have a difficult time penning you. The T-44-122 has the same survivability as the normal T-44, but the IS-6 has much better armor than the IS-2, for example.

I'd Google each tank and see what other people say about it recently, just to get a really good idea which tank you want.

[kamikazi21358]

I have both, I must recommend the T-44-122.

The IS-6 isn’t bad, (it’s really, really good), but what I like about the T-44-122:


Mobility of a light tank, feels faster than a T-34 or the T-44-85.

Armour is good, 75mm RHA at 90 degrees, but it has weakspots and such — the armour is unreliably good. I do not play like I have armour, play like a Russian M18 (not as fast but still pretty fast), but you’ll actually get lots of bounces. Like half of shots, or even more, bounce.

The gun: 122mm kills everything. It’s the same gun, but at 6.3 and not 7.3. If you penetrate, you incinerate. And penetration isn’t that hard, just don’t aim for hardspots like the Tiger II UFP and such, and it’ll kill everything.

The disadvantage is the reload: I mean the only reason it isn’t like 6.7 or 7.0 is because of the half minute reload (like 22 seconds w/ max reload skills/leadership and elited crew), and the only time this tank doesn’t get fun is if you loose your loader, now you have the reload of a KV-2.

However, I like this: instead of having a rapid fire 85mm with 150 some mm of penetration and a good APHE filler, the T-44-122 instead can pop out and just utterly obliterate an opponent, and instead of now worrying about bouncing and him shooting, or you not killing and having to reload, etc, the T-44-122 does the opposite of this, and can just backup and reload using the best armour there is: buildings and hills.

The other last main advantage of the T-44-122: 6.3. 6.3 is just a great lineup. You have the 122, now you have the base T-44, IS-2 obr. 1944, ASU-85, SU-100, and tonnes of great 5.0-6.0 backups, plus the Tu-2-44, Tu-2-59, the only 6.3 jet in the game, or trade it out with a fighter with bombs like the I-185 or the La-7. From my experience: like over half my battles are downtiers. It’s great. While like only a quarter of battles are uptiers to only say 6.7. Russia 6.3 is probably the best lineup.




Both the IS-6 and T-44-122 are good for grinding, and the IS-6 is extremely good. But I choose the T-44-122, simply because it is more fun. The gun is the same 1.0 below, better lineup (7.3 is good for USSR too, but not as much as 6.3, and it gets uptiered to 7.7 more often than 6.3 gets uptiered, along with the rare 8.3 battles bringing tanks with darts), the gameplay is really enjoyable, at least to me (basically a US-style Russian turreted TD), and I just like it.

As well, I can’t recommend the IS-6 simply because of it’s BR. BR compression doesn’t make 7.3 fun that much, and you face MBTs from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Combined with this: it’s rank 4. If you want something that high, I recommend going say .3 BR higher and getting like the Ob’yekt 120 or something, that can actually research rank 6. The IS-6 is an amazing tank, still probably a little Op, and especially in downtiers or in SB, it just totally clubs... but frankly I like the T-44-122 better, it’s just a more enjoyable tank that is fun to play, more enjoyable lineup, at a still decent BR, and can research the same stuff just fine.