

Kv1-S The gun of doom
#1 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:12 PM
#2 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:14 PM
Wabbit_Slayer, on 14 October 2013 - 05:12 PM, said:
KV-1S is only good for total idiots who can only shoot twice per match before getting raped - because it's more damage with a high alpha gun.
#3 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:15 PM
#4 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:16 PM
The main drawback is the huge reload time. Use cover to get close and as soon as they've fired you can can usually get two shots off before they reload, or get round behind them where they're helpless.
Edited by BattleMetalChris, 14 October 2013 - 05:17 PM.
#5 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:19 PM
#7 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:20 PM
I'm constantly bottom tier in every match I play with it.
Watch as your 175mm gun bounces off a tigers front, or T29's cupola :)
And against T8 heavies you actually need to use premo anyway.
if you can't manage 2K dmg in these games playing support GTFO.
#8 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:20 PM
Lord_WC, on 14 October 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:
KV-1S is only good for total idiots who can only shoot twice per match before getting raped - because it's more damage with a high alpha gun.
#9 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:21 PM
Edited by LegateAquila, 14 October 2013 - 05:25 PM.
#10 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:22 PM
#11 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:24 PM
BattleMetalChris, on 14 October 2013 - 05:16 PM, said:
The main drawback is the huge reload time. Use cover to get close and as soon as they've fired you can can usually get two shots off before they reload, or get round behind them where they're helpless.
- apparently, KV-1S will indeed be split into two: historical KV-85 will be on tier 5 with current speed/agility, on tier 6 there will be KV-85/122, with seriously nerfed speed/agility, but it will keep the 122mm gun
Source http://ftr.wot-news....ting-with-serb/
#12 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:24 PM
Edited by J00F, 14 October 2013 - 05:24 PM.
#13 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:29 PM
#14 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:29 PM
J00F, on 14 October 2013 - 05:24 PM, said:
Edited by Achibot, 14 October 2013 - 05:30 PM.
#15 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:31 PM
#16 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:31 PM

It's a easy to use tank, even with the long reload, but they announced they are going to split it in one of the next patches, so imho it's not worth discussing about it again, since this topic comes every single week
Edited by Pastaiolo, 14 October 2013 - 05:34 PM.
#17 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:32 PM
J00F, on 14 October 2013 - 05:24 PM, said:
I don't think personal accuracy figures show the whole story. I have more or less identical accuracy figures in lots of very very different tanks.
With low RoF guns with poor aim time you tend to take more care with your shots because you need to make them count, where as with high RoF guns you tend to spam more shots 'from the hip' so to speak, because when you reload it 3-4 seconds it doesn't matter if you miss so much.
With some high RoF guns I quite often fire 30-45 shots per battle, even though the hard stats of the gun make it look more accurate my actual accuracy % with these tanks is much lower than slow RoF higher alpha guns with worse hard stats for accuracy and aim time. Go figure.
The reason I hate the KV-1S is not because it's OP, but because it lets any super tomato have his say in the battle, and they quite often ruin your chances of a super carry, it only takes one shot from one of these 600WN7 idiots to ruin a potentially epic carry. Most of them don't fire more than two shells per battle...
#18 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:33 PM
Achibot, on 14 October 2013 - 05:15 PM, said:
Lack of armour? Sorry, compared to other tier VI tank KV-1S has decent armor. Not good, but not bad either. So hardly a downside.
Poor accuracy? On paper, yeah. In practice I got one-shoted by KV-1S from half a map away so many times I lost count. And with 175pen you don't have to aim too much in close quarters - just don't aim for bouncy parts and you will pen.
Only MAJOR drawback of KV-1S is long reload and aim time. But it only matters if you are able to survive the first hit. And many tanks that KV-1S faces do not.
#19 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:35 PM
It will be nerfed and rightly so, 390 alpha at T6, 13s reload time, huge pen, very mobile, decent armor.... Why didn't they give the VK36 this gun ? Because it would be OP, like this russian unrealistic tank is.
#20 Posted 14 October 2013 - 05:41 PM
duvvel, on 14 October 2013 - 05:33 PM, said:
Poor accuracy? On paper, yeah. In practice I got one-shoted by KV-1S from half a map away so many times I lost count. And with 175pen you don't have to aim too much in close quarters - just don't aim for bouncy parts and you will pen.
Only MAJOR drawback of KV-1S is long reload and aim time. But it only matters if you are able to survive the first hit. And many tanks that KV-1S faces do not.
Edited by Achibot, 14 October 2013 - 07:40 PM.
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