Editing IS-2 (section)

===Hero IS-2===

The hero IS-2 takes everything the IS-2 does and cranks it up to 11. Compared to the regular Late IS-2s, your tanks are fearless (2+ counterattack), Veteran, careful, but now they cost as much as the veteran tiger crews those Germans have been touting for so long. What does this mean and how do these tanks compare?

Being careful has some significant benefits, but among those is that now you can land assaults even more consistently: you have a 1/5 chance of getting a tank disabled on the charge with bedsprings (bit over 1/4 without) and your tanks love being there thanks to their 2+ counterattack and 3+ assault. On top of that, you still trade equally or favorably brawling with tigers and panthers thanks to your better armor despite your low rate of fire per point.

That brings us to the big concern. Where tanks like the tiger or regular IS-2s aren't as good at landing assaults and have a slight disadvantage in a head-on fight, they bring a much higher rate of fire for the cost. This makes them much more flexible at dealing with medium tanks or cheaper tank destroyers and lets them stand alone much better. These tanks don't have that capability. Taken as a blackbox support platoon, they can do a great job assaulting infantry and distracting enemy heavy tanks (the IS-2s main jobs), but you'll need to give them an army that can fight enemy medium tanks and AT guns efficiently or they'll fall apart.