Shelloooooo and welcome to a wonderful Sunday!
Let’s start this Sunday with talking about the new tank we got from Wargaming the other day.
Object 244 Premium Soviet Heavy Tank
The Look
Well well what do we have here!!
This looks like a tier 7 IS heavy tank but in tier 6 and armed with a peashooter gun!!!!!
It’s a ugly brother from another mother but most of the heavies are and they can never compare to the sexy sleek lines of my Shitbarn ❤
The Stats
I’m comparing this to the non-premium KV-85 and both of the premium Tigers at tier 6 and I want to at this point state that this tank will fight against the most OP tier 6 premium tank in the game, the T-34-85M which was widely available as a free tank and its good.
The first thing we see is the DPM of 1976 is at the top of the list, the reload is fast and can get to below 4.5 seconds but the bad news is the alpha is really low at only 180 and the 144 pen means when you see higher tier tanks you are going to have to hit that 2 button for 194 pen a lot and for only 180 damage in return. The other heavies have better alpha and the KV-85 can hit you in the face with a scary 390 damage (ouch)
The 85 caliber gun means you won’t be overmatching much and with 180 damage even tracking is not easy but the shell velocity isn’t as bad as the other 3 so some good news there.
The gun handling on paper looks good and actually a possible sniper if you like that kind of thing but I didn’t feel it when I played it but its still good for a heavy, at this tier there is no vertical stabs to help out.
The aim time is really good and in reality you can get it to 2 seconds which it needs because you need to fire a lot to make use of the DPM and it shows a 0.34 dispersion which again is good.
The bad news is the -5 gun depression which really holds back this tank for me and often when I was playing it I was having to hunt for gun depression where in other tanks its already there and it only has +15 elevation.
The Obj 244 has a top speed of 42 forwards and 14 back which makes it the fastest out of the bunch but that’s balanced out by the horrible engine power of only 520 making if feel sluggish unless going downhill and even though the KV-85 is way slower its actually far more manoeuvrable.
So is there anything good about this tank you might be asking yourself?
Well yes, it’s a tier 7 armoured tank in tier 6 so when you are top tier you can really bully tier 4 and 5’s and many of them just won’t pen you. With 120 hull and 100 turret armour you can play really aggressive and while you won’t be 1 shotting tanks like in your IS, KV2 or KV-85 can you will be leading the charge.
Wargaming have balanced this tank out by giving it the not so good stats above but have given it armour. They gave it a low HP pool of only 880 to help with that balance.
You can side scrape with it in same and lower tiers but it has the same weak spots as the IS so if your enemy know where they are you will probably get wrecked.
View range is a bad 340m so if you want vision you will need a good crew, vents, food and optics or even binos. Don’t use a gun laying drive as the return is really bad being it has a fast reload. I played it with rammer, optics and vents.
I thought this tank was ok, nothing great and nothing really bad. It doesn’t feel OP overall but in lower tiers where its armour really comes into effect it’s great fun. The low alpha damage does however cause problems when fighting it out with other heavies that have high alpha and you really need to be careful of bad trades or you will lose the majority of fights.
Would I buy one?
If I wanted a Russian low tier crew trainer then yes I would but if I could only afford one tier 6 premium tank I would chose the T-34-85M as it just doesn’t have any weakness (and of course the KV-2! Did I ever say I like big gun’s).