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In Flames of War, the assault guns perform the double role of heavy tank and artillery support. Though their armor and training is worse than that of the IS-2, their firepower is equal and they are cheaper, allowing you to bring a unit of (still) relatively heavily armored vehicles with tremendous firepower for much cheaper. A unit, I might add, that in a pinch can double as a large artillery battery of heavy guns. | In Flames of War, the assault guns perform the double role of heavy tank and artillery support. Though their armor and training is worse than that of the IS-2, their firepower is equal and they are cheaper, allowing you to bring a unit of (still) relatively heavily armored vehicles with tremendous firepower for much cheaper. A unit, I might add, that in a pinch can double as a large artillery battery of heavy guns. | ||
==Late War== | ==Late War== | ||
===ISU-122=== | ===ISU-122=== | ||
Compared to the ISU-152, the ISU-122 is cheaper, has better penetrating power and range in direct fire on its guns, and only has a worse firepower ''of a 2+.'' While this takes away it's ability to lay down God-tier bombardments that waste everything unfortunate enough to be caught beneath it, it also makes them more capable in their actual role as an assault gun: driving up to enemy positions and blowing them up. If you had just wanted an artillery unit, there are much cheaper ways to go about it after all! 2+ firepower is still 2+ firepower, and this thing is going to hurt whatever it hits, at 8" further out nonetheless! Take it as a cheaper IS-2 for hunting tanks and antitank guns: it's armor and skill are slightly worse, but they have the same firepower for significantly fewer points. | Compared to the ISU-152, the ISU-122 is cheaper, has better penetrating power and range in direct fire on its guns, and only has a worse firepower ''of a 2+.'' While this takes away it's ability to lay down God-tier bombardments that waste everything unfortunate enough to be caught beneath it, it also makes them more capable in their actual role as an assault gun: driving up to enemy positions and blowing them up. If you had just wanted an artillery unit, there are much cheaper ways to go about it after all! 2+ firepower is still 2+ firepower, and this thing is going to hurt whatever it hits, at 8" further out nonetheless! Take it as a cheaper IS-2 for hunting tanks and antitank guns: it's armor and skill are slightly worse, but they have the same firepower for significantly fewer points. | ||
Revision as of 14:20, 22 March 2021
The ISU-152 was an assault gun based on the IS tank chassis, following the example of the SU series before it. It's role was to bring the biggest gun possible on a heavily armored chassis into the fight, rolling up to enemy hard points and using the sheer explosive power of the 152mm cannon to silence them. When 152mm cannons were in short supply the soviets experimented with mounting 122mm cannons on the spare chassis, and the commanders liked it so much that they demanded more of them, giving birth to the ISU-122. These assault guns were big, bulky, and heavily armored; exceptionally tough targets for their German adversaries.
In Flames of War, the assault guns perform the double role of heavy tank and artillery support. Though their armor and training is worse than that of the IS-2, their firepower is equal and they are cheaper, allowing you to bring a unit of (still) relatively heavily armored vehicles with tremendous firepower for much cheaper. A unit, I might add, that in a pinch can double as a large artillery battery of heavy guns.
Late War
ISU-122
Compared to the ISU-152, the ISU-122 is cheaper, has better penetrating power and range in direct fire on its guns, and only has a worse firepower of a 2+. While this takes away it's ability to lay down God-tier bombardments that waste everything unfortunate enough to be caught beneath it, it also makes them more capable in their actual role as an assault gun: driving up to enemy positions and blowing them up. If you had just wanted an artillery unit, there are much cheaper ways to go about it after all! 2+ firepower is still 2+ firepower, and this thing is going to hurt whatever it hits, at 8" further out nonetheless! Take it as a cheaper IS-2 for hunting tanks and antitank guns: it's armor and skill are slightly worse, but they have the same firepower for significantly fewer points.
In Real Life
| Soviet Forces in Flames of War | |
|---|---|
| Tanks: | T-70 - Valentine - M5/M3 Stuart - M3 Lee - T-34 - KV - Churchill - IS-2 - Captured Tank Platoon - T-28 - BT-7 - KV-2 - T-26 |
| Transports: | M3 Scout Car - Universal Carrier - SdKfz 251 |
| Infantry: | Rifles - Motor Rifles - Penal Company - Storm Group - SMG Company - Engineer Sapper Company |
| Artillery: | Katyusha - 152mm Artillery - 122mm Artillery - 76mm Artillery - 120mm Mortars - 82mm mortars |
| Tank Destroyers and Assault Guns: | 45mm Anti Tank - 57mm Anti Tank - 76mm Anti Tank - 100mm Anti Tank - SU-76 - SU-85 - SU-100 - SU-122 - SU-152 - ISU-122/ISU-152 |
| Recon: | Scout Platoon - BA-64 Platoon - Armored Reconnaissance Platoon - Reconnaissance Platoon |
| Aircraft: | Il-2 Sturmovik |
| Anti-Aircraft: | ZSU M17 - DShK AA MG Platoon |
| Midwar Monsters: | KV-3 - KV-5 - T-43 |