ST-I: Soviet Super War-Machine

History

The designer of this machine is Valentine Asikritovich Ganin. This man had the experience nebezyvestnom factory "Bolshevik," and from 1942 to 1945 - senior engineer of the Central Artillery Design Bureau Plant № 92 (Grabin KB). However, the more he is known as a rocketeer, in particular, to him belongs the idea of an underwater missile launch. Went to Ganina owns a total of 62 work in the field artillery, aviation, rocketry, including 24 copyright certificates. In short, people are very uneasy. Draft tank PT-I is not bad, had a number of original solutions, first applied in tank. But man does not have CB on his back and, more importantly, influential people. Plus, the tankers do not like the gunners. In general, the project zapinali and deposited in the archives, where it is stored until now.

 

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Well-protected (140/140/100 hull and 250/160/160 top turret)  and very angled armor (about 40°)
• Very good gun depression for a Soviet tank (-8°/+16°) event better than M103
• Protected and easily hidden tracks double as very effective spaced armor when sidescraping
• Small lower glacis and strong yet small copula
• Stock turret has a low profile, albeit the upgraded turret is enormous
• Powerful top gun with high alpha (440/440/530),very high pen on HEAT rounds (268/400/68), and reasonable accuracy for a Russian heavy gun (0.38)
• Fire chance: 15%
• 2,56m high, easily fire the lower hull of German tanks
• Fashion design

Cons:

• Stock grind is nearly impossible without the BL-9 gun, which can only be researched in advance on the opposite heavy line on the IS-3
• Susceptible to artillery fire
• Poor acceleration and uphill climb speed
• Huge upgraded turret that attracts a lot of enemy fire, although very strong from the front.
• Thin lower hull (160mm)
• Bad mobility
• Cost a lot credit (fix: about 20.000, 1065 per AP shell)
• Short view range 380m

Play style

·         Fight in the front line or get to good position and cover team-med

·         Get 25° inclined to raise bouncing-chance

·         Do not go alone; your bad mobility will kill you

·         Always use hulldown or sidescrap

 

Crew skill (recommend)

-Commander: 
 

 -Driver: 
-Gunner:
-Loaders:  

Equipment (recommend)

Bonus: ST-I space armor