Emil 1... is it really that awful....

Draschel:  Are you talking about emil 1951? That thing has speed.Emil l has high top speed like 112 or Bisonte, but never goes it because of awful traverse and HP/T Swedish heavy tanks start tier 9. Emil l is full of problems. Terrible gun handling stats, turret armor is good, but not great. More like Centurion turret than say, T32 or Patriot. Speed, as I said the HP/T just are not there, the premium Emil 1951 has a healthy engine buff. Front LFP actually isn't too terrible,  but  front glacis is. You are getting pen by anything with 200 AP, bad for a heavy. Sides are a joke, no side scraping at all. View range and HP pool are bad. To top it off with the list of bad things, low premium pen prevents you from being more impactful against hardened enemies. Many tier 8 get 260 APCR, Emil is stuck with 240 It is not all glum though. Emil is still better than pieces of crap like AT15, Even 90, Batchat 12T, CDC, FV4202. There are plenty of stinkers in tier 8, that stink more than Emil. For all its terrible attributes, it is still a potent autoloader, that can dump fairly high DPM for an autoloader, like Somua. In addition, the gun depression is -12, in situations it can dominate, especially without arty matches. I would say Skoda T27, AMX50100, Emil l, Emil 1951, T77 are due for some balancing buffs, they are all quite bad compared to pantera, progetto, Somua, IS3A.  Lower Emil l dispersion stats while moving, to .22  Give it premium ammo like Alt 14  5, 252 pen not 242.  Emil 1951 needs even more gun handling, hard to think that gun handling can be even worse than Emil l. Especially as the premium tank counterpart. The LFP is worse, DPM is worse - all Emil 1951 provides is speed. Which because of tanks like Patriot, Renegade and E75TS  - it is not all that fast really. Give it Emil II stock engine to make it slightly quicker, and buff the premium ammo to 252 and  LFP like Emil l