I like this idea but feel like it needs a counter. Any item that we can deploy needs to be able to be destroyed. A RE blast should be required, or multiple direct missile hits.

Deployable cover would be great. A shield would make more sense to me.

Deployable cover would be great. A shield would make more sense to me.

CCP is working on this.

@OP: Someone suggested the ability to deploy tank traps (like the ones already on certain maps) that were destructible. Wouldn't make much of a immediate cover but would do the trick for stopping vehicles. Especially if you throw some proxy mines behind them.
Your idea for this "Dragons Teeth" isn't half bad. Would be a nice infantry tool to use and AV could take advantage of it by hiding behind it in-between swarms (tankers might get p*ssed though )

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when is a bad tanker not p*ssed. good tankers don't get p*ssed lol.

I want these!!!!!! It made me think of a sort of "riot shield type weapon" it would be a heavy weapon that has 1500 hp (numbers can be reworked this is just an idea). Basically only a heavy can use it, and it occupies a weapon slot. This shield could be repaired by an armour repper (once it runs out of hp, it becomes no longer usable) it would be useful in groups of 2 or 3, one guy carries the shield and blocks fire, while the other people shoot from behind it (or if a logi is with them, heals the shield). It would be a great asset in CQC.

once again not a shield, read the op.

if you want to make a shield post then do so somewhere else plz, lets stay on topic

What if a more advanced version of these "Dragon's Teeth" had like, spikes or something that do more damage to vehicles that touch it. idk

Personally I think that it's a good idea, but...

The portable shield is coming and will be used as cover.

Furthermore, this slowing down of vehicles will be the job of deployable web devices, the likes of which are seen in EVE. I foresee a nanohive-like bubble on the ground that simply snags vehicles like the giant cables you see on aircraft carriers to catch and slow down landing planes.

dragons teeth are anything which is deployted in a fixed way with the sole purpose to abstruct enemy vehicle movement. the first ones looked like a row of teeth on the ground hence the name i believe and modern versions are a bit different. there are lots of different types

i believe this to be partially correct, in the concept of dragons teeth and the description of the first ones, but dragons teeth, as far as i know are solely the large pyramid shaped cement and rebar slabs. They are usually deployed in large number at irregular intervals to make the passage of tanks and heavily armored vehicles far more difficult if not impossible

just to verify our statements i went and asked wiki
Dragon's teeth (fortification)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dragons Teeth on GHQ Line in Britain in 2006
Dragon's teeth (German: Drachenz+ñhne, literally "dragon teeth") are square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry. The idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing zones where they could easily be disposed of by anti-tank weapons.
They were employed extensively, particularly on the Siegfried Line.




I love the idea of making the terrain more difficult to traverse for vehicles, but with the way i see this item in particular i fear it will either be used more often as a ladder of sorts enabling players to reach areas previously unavailable without a derpship, or to block staircases so infantry cant get into an area thereby creating a forced choke point or making it impossible to get into a building or objective as it would likely be gaurded by another player upon high ground making it harder to destroy

I love the idea of making the terrain more difficult to traverse for vehicles, but with the way i see this item in particular i fear it will either be used more often as a ladder of sorts enabling players to reach areas previously unavailable without a derpship, or to block staircases so infantry cant get into an area thereby creating a forced choke point or making it impossible to get into a building or objective as it would likely be gaurded by another player upon high ground making it harder to destroy