So I have Played dust for a few weaks as a caldari Assault speced into ARs and Scrambler pistols, but tanks allways seamed so cool. I have read the forums a bit and I understand from battle field experiance seeign them die and the raging on the forums that tanks are a bit under powered.

But I learn best from first hand experiance so I made this tanking alt and decided to take one tank into each battle and see how I died while preying i didn't

My fits rough layout is a Sica fit with a heavy shield extender, the low fitting heavy shield boster, and a active shield hardener, a powergrid mod and a damage mod, along with the cheepest missle turret.

This is not my first day tanking but it could be my first day seriously tanking, I played 6 battles and here is how i died in each.

1: I called in my tank and roamed around destroying turrets as I came across them, which i did because i know that for some reason they hit as hard as I do and can esily kill me even if not maned. I then rolled into the city on one of the new maps, just into the entrance near where objective A is underground and killed a few people, before having AV granades tossed down on my head then finished off with a swarm launcher, 1 hit KOing my armor. All fair and good, I did go into the city where i could easily be hit from above or behind.

2: Same as first battle i called in my tank and went in search of turrets, when 50 sec into my tank i get hit by a Red line Railturret and had no where to run so i died. Kinda frustrating.

3: Same as usual, this time i kill about 3 turrets, and 1 guy before a guy with a proto swarm launcher shoots four vollys off at me, The first volly hits me, and before i can even think of moving to put somethign between me and the rest the next three vollys smack into me killing me. I did see the guy before i died and he was half the map away where my missles and ability to bearly see made him imposible to counter.

4: This was the small map with the 3 objectives, i jumped in my tank and headed for the middleish one C. I cozzied up behind the socket where there was a wall and I killed every single enemy that spawned in, I also had two blueberrys who actualy where pretty good shots in my turret for once and they also got a bunch of kills and assists. I used my Ressit mod and shield booster and the wall to dip in and out of danger, even when gettign hit by swarm launchers, forge guns, and AVG a few times. I never died and we won the battle, me going 25/0. Best tankign experiance i have ever had, and i also felt i used real skill aswell.

5: Same map as #4, the small one, was doing well till a blueberry in a rail tank ramed me from behind and we both insta exploded.... seriously... wtf.

6: One of the new loooong maps, Killed a few guys and a few turrets, when out of no where an enemy LAV ramed me from behind, the two passengers jumping out, both with proto AV granades, I died pretty quick. Wasent actualy mad about this one, that was a pretty smooth move on their part.

Im not QQing, just passing on my experiance, I know my skills are low, and am using a milita tank, so maybe allot fo this would have played out diferantly if I had a bad ass death machine. But i have to say that Red line Rail guns and proto swarms are almost unstopable forces that i have no way of dealign with and I think CCP needs to cut the range on them.

Anyway I will continue to update this a few times a week with my experiances, as good or bad as they come. I just wish tanks wernt so dang expensive. 300k is more than i can ever hope to gain in one match that isent near perfect.

That reminds me, in fight #4 I also killed an enmy malita tank in a pretty cool 1v1, seams like my missles where hitting him far harder than he was hitting me tho.

Yeah I like my missles, they seam to hit harder than than a blaster, while still being ok Vs infantry unlike a rail turret. But sure when you get back to dust I wouldnt mind tankign together, i could use some lessons.

I was rolling around an ambush in my soma and started getting chased by a sica. I drove off around a corner, called in my Madrugar and waited for the sica to come around the corner.

He rounded the corner guns blazing.....popped him in 3 shots from my rail cannon....I felt like such an awesome tanker

Moral of the story?.....I haven't figured one out yet

Well hopfuly if I save up enough skill points and isk ill be usuing gunlogis soon. That way ill live long enough to escape, or maybe recive reps.

That may be awhile, i havent even heard of that on the drawign board for now.

You know that there will only be one skill to unlock all tanks right?