I remember facing this thing in my stock 6.0 Tiger E years ago. When there was no armour showcase and this monster was at 7.0. I bounced 3 times on his flat side then cried and died. I wish you a good recovery Odd
Hey odd you rock for putting out these vids even when you're under the weather. It was awesome playing w you on stream last night and I hope you get your heart stuff sorted out soon!
It's almost ironic. The War Thunder RU-vidr who (in my opinion) puts some of the most heart and emotion into his channel has issues with his heart. Stay healthy and safe Bawz, your videos are apart of a select group I'm always excited for 😊
I just love seeing IS 3 player that angling their hull but completely exposing their ufp that become a flat surface. You can only angling when you have a cover to hide your ufp because your frontal armor is already angled.
Fortunately, gaijin mainly uses stats as balancing which isn’t good at all but at the same time if it was all community input for balancing then stuff like the 2h would be at like 6.0
You know, I was feeling tired, watching Phly’s video, then I see odd uploaded A extra 20-30 minutes of staying up never hurts, keep up the great work odd!❤️
Hope your okay Odd, I had similar heart issues a few years ago and they stuck a wire into my heart and burned out some not ideal bits. I hope they do not have to do anything as drastic for you.
5:13 I’ve noticed sometimes if it looks super dark, go to the menu, click on options, then close the menu and it will brighten back up I don’t know how or why that works but I discovered it on accident. It doesn’t always work but it is 100% noticeable difference when it does
I wasn't sure I should spade the IS3 until I saw this video. I seams like a good tank in the right situations,a monster in a downtier which might not be so uncommon since 6.7 is such a common br for most nations and if you get an uptier the T 44 100 will work great
I have no idea how OddBawZ has enough luck to have a barrel or a track :D My experience with russian heavies is once you shoot you can say goodbye to your tank, unless you have a chance to traverse back in time. And i have no idea why some players are aiming at the is3 front plate with conventional rounds.
They are likely taking chance shots at the barrel. They have no other option, as heavies like this are in a weird spot balance wise. Conventional rounds are next to useless from the front, and any vehicle with HEAT or darts will negate the armor entirely. Best option if you have Conventional rounds is to hail Mary the barrel and hopefully force him back to repair
@@destroyerarmor2846 Yeah, our allies (Russia and China) became our greatest adversaries while Japan and Germany became our close allies. Funny how that works lol
Fact: The Is-3 did fought in Ww2 since the European war ended they were transported to the Far East and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria but there is little evidence of them fighting in Manchuria since there’s only few of them
yep, this thing didnt see any battle (during ww2), it was basically only used in the victory parade, it looked scary and intimidating, but it had so many problems
Any else remember a year or 2 ago when the devs said they had a whole new weather system with dynamic in game weather and they used the example "start raining at the beginning of the game then by the end it's sunny" well I do and I haven't seen it yet
I have seen it once, it was a beautiful surprise when i tried to cross an open field with my side armour and the rainy weather changed in a split second and i got clubbed back to the hangar, it was almost fun.
Sadly its nighttime here so I'll watch this tomorrow, but I'll comment now so others can see what an amazing RU-vidr you are, love ya Odd I will watch this in the morning ❤
I am heavy weapons guy, and this *122mm gun* is my weapon, she fires 25kg custom cartridges with over 240 grams of TNT equivalent at 3 rounds per minute.
I mean, factually speaking; the IS-3 had little to no combat experience. It was only used in the victory parade in Berlin at the end of the war, which spooked both the UK and the USA to make the Conqueror & M103 respectively. Edit: France also got the spooks from seeing the IS-3 and the AMX-50 was created as a result.
True, very much true however it did have combat experience later during the 6 day war in the 1950s where Israeli M48s did little damage to the IS-3M model. The only reason Israel captured IS-3s and experimented with them was due to the fact that it did not perform well in the desert and the reload was too slow against the more mobile M48 tanks and it suffered heavily in mobility.
Hé odd,the is 3 was used by the egyptian army during the 6 day war. It was better at taking hits then anything else due too the massive amount of problems it had
there are lots of vehicles that are hard to pen frontally at their BR. just track, barrel and go round to their side. works on the IS-3 too. Tiger II can pen it from the front, but you have to aim for the weakspot, which is about as big as an mg port.
SU 9 in a video? It was actually the SU 9 instead of the Premium SU 11. That alone is amazing. Rare footage of a plane that gets a battle rating that is to high because it looks like another plane, the SU 11, that itself looks similar to a couple of planes that it outperforms. Thank you for playing the forgotten SU 9.
My is3 gameplays 90% time reparing the gun and the cannon breech and reloading after the repair is done and if the enemy hasnt pushed you yet you can go for a shot
In reality - the IS-3 did have cool specs on paper, but was actually a pretty lousy fighting vehicle, with extremely cramped crew quarters, a turret that didn't exactly fitted the lower part (unsurprising, as they were designed by two different bureaus) and as a result systems that mismatched all the time between the two. I mean, it did look scary.. And looking scary was all it was actually used for, as it was clear it will not even survive one minute on a real battlefield. However, in Warthunder.. :-).
I like this tank sadly out of 30 some matches I have only had one full down tier, and it's the only game. I managed to kill more then one enemy. The rest if those matches near or full upteirs.
