As long as a forge can make them nervous, I'm good. And by nervous, I mean that a forge is an effective counter, not just a minor annoyance.

It's ridiculous that infantry-AV hard counter to mobile-armor would be expected to need more than twenty-five percent of a single proto Infantry-AV's total base ammunition capacity, against the target it's meant for, when the target itself can lay waste to most everything else on the battlefield with so few threats. I've shot at HAV's with my proto forge that took over four hits and survive to escape.

Here's where part of the balance is. HAVs threatened only by other HAVs, installations, and infantry AV. Infantry-AV threatened by everything but Swarm and AV grenades. So for balance, which many "pilots" seem to just skip over, infantry-AV should be powerful against vehicles.

I know that there are bugs, new and old, that cause issues but they shouldn't be part of the consideration for game balance on any level.

HAVs and LLAVs, when fit for tank, are already hard for Infantry-AV to take down. Threads like this just make it look like you pilots want a god mode vehicle that can't be threatened by anything but laser tactical strikes.

Nothing wrong with me, it's just obvious by your response that you do want an "I WIN!!!" vehicle.

Yes. Vehicle variety would be awesome, but making infantry AV ineffective against any vehicle is ludicrous. If they make a vehicle as hard as what's been suggested here, I want a heavy suit with vehicular grade small arms resistance.

So out of siege mode, it would be roughly equivalent to what? A stock militia HAV? What threat do we have available to "encourage" the driver to leave siege mode and vacate the area to save his vehicle if everything on field, including another siege HAV can't do enough damage to move it? This might be viable if teams were larger running 40+ per side on bigger maps where a larger mix of roles would be viable, or we had the non-existent electronic warfare that you seem to feel should be this vehicle's main foible. Unfortunately, forcing a situation where nearly half a team has to dedicate to remove one vehicular threat is unreasonable.

Something I know about high priced items on the market is that it doesn't matter how much it costs, if someone can afford it, they'll still bring it to public matches.