Needing some tips in tier 10s, and mediums

churchill50: There are a couple of different things here:First, tier 10 is kind of its own ball game. Even if you perform well up to tier 9, it can be difficult to perform consistently in tier 10.The AMX 30B and T110E4 are much weaker tier for tier than their tier 9 counterparts.The AMX 30B, M60, and AMX 50B are definitely not the easiest tanks to play. It's difficult to cover the playstyle of those tanks through text, so I would suggest watching some Youtubers or streamers who play them. I generally suggest Taugrim, iyouxin, skill4ltu, or Lemmingrush for learning. The T110E4 is an interesting one, so here go a few tips for playing it. T110E4 plays like a heavy, but a very very supportive heavy. It can't play by itself very well (unless it's top tier). Let your other heavies take the shots for you, then pull out to shoot. You have to play much more conservatively than in a true heavy, since the E4 doesn't have the armor or hitpoints to tank like true heavies can.Try to stay at mid-range. At close range your lack of a full turret, lowish DPM, and general vulnerability can be used against you. At long range your gun doesn't work very well.One thing I did when I ground out the E4 3-mark recently, was to raise my gun after shooting to hide my cupola. The cupola is only one of your weakspots (mantlet, turret cheeks, and lower plate are all weak). But, by raising your gun to hide your cupola, I found a lot of enemies would ignore the other weakspots and try to hit the cupola, which was now a difficult shot because your gun is in the way. I might just have been getting lucky with this, but it seemed to work pretty well for me. The IS-7 is decent still. The turret is really good, hull is trollish, mobility is decent. The gun kind of falls short, but still has good alpha.Generally, comparing the IS-7 and the Obj 277, the IS-7 is considered more forgiving and the Obj 277 is the stronger tank in experienced hands.Both the E100 and IS-7 do need some gold. 246/250 AP pen just doesn't cut it against a lot of armored targets at tier 10 these days.