be better running a vayu with maxed turret skills, proto turret and maxed vayu skill. thats 30% damage(before stacking penalty) extra on a proto turret on a tank with 74.02% resists, heat sink II, active scanner, NOS, heavy efficient rep and proto small turrets.
Tanks about 3.2kk but evil as ****.

you can run the same on a maddy, but loose out on dmg/range and a high slot

2 carapace, 2 voltiac, lvl 5 armor skill, 25,25,15,15,10

They have stacking penalties though, there's no way it works out to that.

Plus, then you're relying on just your base HP....scary.

I've been thinking about grabbing an enforcer, but i've yet to decide which one. The falchion i could do pg, and double damge mods, but i'd have near ewuivelant hp to my ganky gunnlogi,
Or a vayu with a 3rd high slot that i might not use.
Currently my maddy hasn't needed to overheat against a tank.
Currently my tactics are ' get behind and spam tracks' if i can't do tht, such as direct head on attack, i run away and try to reposition myself.
Heavily leaning towards Vayu since that 3rd high slot can be used for a 2nd nitrous to use when on cooldown, or a shield booster to keep from dying to mlt swarms, but that's a ways off

Edit: sorry if i make little sense, typing on phone.

If i run those numbers through the stacking calculator(hoping that thing works lol) it goes

25,25,15,15,10=90
25.00%, 21.73%, 8.56%, 4.24%, 1.06%, = 74.02%

base HP is low, no plates on vayu leaves only its native speed penalty, on maddy = m my74.02% murder taxi. Also if the 74.02 is right then the OP's tank doing 1300dps versus armor will actually be reduced to 338dps whilst my heavy efficient reps over 400/s, his tank has next to no resists to hold out against what I'm handing out.

edit: the stacking calculator is used -- link

They have stacking penalties though, there's no way it works out to that.

Plus, then you're relying on just your base HP....scary.

I'm ********, don't mind me. I can't math today. (I still feel like the stacking penalty would make it way less than 74%)

I'm going to go burn the rest of the ISK that I don't have testing a sub par version of that (took the respec so no max vehicle skills anymore)

I'm trying just a Maddy with 2 voltaics, 2 22% resists, and only 4% base resist.

This is gonna go bad but I'm just curious.

Ahh just spawned into two tanks a proto forge AV grenades and swarms

Ahhhhhh 800k down the toilet ^_^

This tank i have created is a response to the current change in AV. Rather than trying to outHP the enemy, sticking with 2 hardener, plate rep and pg upgrade, i have take a different step, which allows for geurilla tactics, however this tank will never win against a HP stacked maddy using blasters adv and up.
Gunnlogis lose near instantly though.

1 large efficient repair
2 10% large hybrid damage mods
1 local PG
1 120 MM polycrystalline

2nd level nitrous
1 scanner of choice- i use the wavelength because of Cpu shortage.

80gj scattered neutron blaster
20gj neutron up top
At-1 accelerated up front

Large blaster stats:
178.77 damage per shot
470 rpm- 7.6 rps
dps is as folows: 1400 median, 1300 against armor, 1490 against shield.
anything std and above AV will kill you if you don't kill them. Which won't be difficult because even a maxed HP heavy lasts 2 seconds. (Typical forge attack distance is around 130+ meters, which js 42% efficiency.) any attack from farther than 80m will kill you faster than you can kill back. Suggested reaction is nitrous and retreat.

This tank will only work with this skillset too. I've tried this before and none are dependable.
Minimum requirements are maxed damage mods, lv3 armor repair ,lv2 maneuverability and lv3/4 plates.
At lower Sp levels this tank will NOT work. It would be more beneficial to use the typical maddy fit.

If i run those numbers through the stacking calculator(hoping that thing works lol) it goes

25,25,15,15,10=90
25.00%, 21.73%, 8.56%, 4.24%, 1.06%, = 74.02%

base HP is low, no plates on vayu leaves only its native speed penalty, on maddy = murder taxi. Also if the 74.02 is right then the OP's tank doing 1300dps versus armor will actually be reduced to 338dps whilst my heavy efficient reps over 400/s, his tank has next to no resists to hold out against what I'm handing out.

edit: the stacking calculator is used -- link

Yeah resistance doesn't work out that way.

Using the numbers you provided you will get around 50% resistance:

100 * 0.9 (armor skill) * 0.75 (first mod) * 0.78 (second mod) * 0.95 (third mod) * 0.99 (fourth mod) = around 50% damage taken (yes I know I didn't use exact numbers).

Do note that the game might be applying the stacking penalty in the opposite order (so starting with the passive mods going through the active ones, which will reduce your resistance further). Also note that the two passive mods add almost no extra resistance as you would still have around 47% without those two.

So the short version is stick with only two active mods and use something else instead of the passive ones, as they're then worthless.

I really hope they hand out another respec so I can just drive vehicles, I have an insane amount of SP in infantry skills that I literally only use to grind out ISK for my next vehicle.

::crosses fingers::

Sad part is is that I had most vehicle upgrade skills maxed but was so zoned in on being a dropship specialist that I raged something fierce and took the respec when it was offered.

How do stacking penalties work? Is it a % reduction to the effect per stack, or is it just the effect of diminishing returns(like double 5% reductions in damage taken, such as 95% at first, then 5% off of 95%, which would yield a number higher than 90%?)
Just realised, i'm conversing withthe one tanker that i remember killing me! (Partly because of the name, i just don't care most of the time.) i'd love to squad with you though, either send an invite or mail me the name. My tanker's name is Cantankerous Giant.

If i run those numbers through the stacking calculator(hoping that thing works lol) it goes

25,25,15,15,10=90
25.00%, 21.73%, 8.56%, 4.24%, 1.06%, = 74.02%

base HP is low, no plates on vayu leaves only its native speed penalty, on maddy = murder taxi. Also if the 74.02 is right then the OP's tank doing 1300dps versus armor will actually be reduced to 338dps whilst my heavy efficient reps over 400/s, his tank has next to no resists to hold out against what I'm handing out.

edit: the stacking calculator is used -- link

Stacking penalty is bugged curently, so you have to add a stacking penalty on the first module

If i run those numbers through the stacking calculator(hoping that thing works lol) it goes

25,25,15,15,10=90
25.00%, 21.73%, 8.56%, 4.24%, 1.06%, = 74.02%

base HP is low, no plates on vayu leaves only its native speed penalty, on maddy = murder taxi. Also if the 74.02 is right then the OP's tank doing 1300dps versus armor will actually be reduced to 338dps whilst my heavy efficient reps over 400/s, his tank has next to no resists to hold out against what I'm handing out.

edit: the stacking calculator is used -- link