IS-2s - All bark and no bite

IS-2s made a rare appearance in this late war WWII Flames of War game (they are generally considered too expensive in points to bother with). Let’s just say that they didn’t fail to disappoint! The lumbering monsters advanced to try to clear away some well dug-in and expertly commanded AT guns, but they failed to hit once in two turns of firing. The German AT guns were ruthlessly effective, knocking out three of them. The remaining IS-2 then failed its morale check and ran away.

In FoW, the IS-2 has a worse rate of fire than German equivalents and counts as ‘slow firing’. Furthermore, its gun has a shorter range. Despite the heavy armour, the tank is destined to underperform, as it seems to have done historically. The lovely models (Model Soldier Company) will probably go back into their box until such time as the point values are reduced by the gate keepers at Battlefront.