That was exactly my reasoning. The Tiger could take out stuff at quite long ranges, for the extremely long sniper shit, they could've just put the Pak43 aka the revised 8,8 on StuG's, would've been way easier to accomodate without a tower, at long range the absence of a tower is only an advantage due to not being spotted as easily, having a much lower height and not being a potential weakpoint. Of course, at shorter ranges being able to aim sidewards without shifting the whole tank is nice but the smaller 88 or L/48 could still penetrate an IS2's thiccest armour at 1,5km and 1km respectively and it's not like the IS-2 was the most common either. <|endoftext|> 