About ready to try Leopard PTA

DomoSapien: I have been working my way through the Leo PTA and it has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. The highs are very high and the lows are pretty low.

When the gun works, it works. Good pen & Alpha, good shell velocity, but terrible stability and pretty much no depression over the rear of your tank. Imo it's more of a mobile TD than a Medium - It's a lightly-armored, decently-mobile firing platform. I actually enjoy playing it, in a way it feels like an Strv with no armor and a turret. (Sans a few degrees of gun depression) 

All of that said, I pretty much say this every time I play it on stream: Rule no 1 about pushing in a Leopard is: "Don't" - seriously, every time I push in this tank I have a bad time. Don't be the first guy out, you will get penned by virtually everything and die (gloriously) after getting 1 shot off.

I loved it at first, then I hated it, now I like it a lot but I'm worried my performance in the Leo 1 will be substantially worse so I'm taking my time with the grind. Silver lining will be the better accuracy at tier X.