How to IS-7

I'm a average-ish player. My WNX wanders around 1200 and I fluctuate between 4500~600dpg averaged to about 1.8k with 1.01~5ish HP exchange.

I found IS-7 incredibly difficult. I did learn about the pike nose and took some time to use it, but at some point the hull and turret stopped working. Some premium shells easilly pen my upper hull plate when I'm facing dead front, some even ripped my turret near the gun.

I can't angle my hull to wiggle my turret side to side else my weaker plate will get penned more easier.

Some nice hulldown points; small rock side to a big rock to hide my lower and one half of upper plate works just fine, but that's about it. If I get a city map with corners or a hulldown map, I'm most likely useless or doomed without any damage.

I also struggle to deal damage when I normally can. I can't even pen an Ares doing a hulldown, cupolas are yellow and it wont hit anyways.

Only success I had was when I was in a plat and raided medium tanks.

I have all field mods and crew skills, almost always use prammo. I'm a peasant so I don't use food or fuel.

I use hardening, rammer, growsers/hardening, turbo, growsers