Thats all well and good, but he really doesn't consider certain things!

First of all, what happens when both sides don't have tanks?
We shouldn't HAVE to use tanks to defend ourselves, ill admit its real cool to see 4 on 4 tank battles, its cool to be apart of them to, but when one side doesn't have tanks its incredibly unbaalanced!

You can't deny it, even the video shows it, anything less than Proto is useless against a vehicle, and even then they are only any use when the tanks aren't 'ON'. We need methods to catch vehicles out.

We need things like webifiers, temporal grenades, e-war that cause guns to overheat, or modules to enter cooldown faster! Tank v Tank battles are brilliant, but you can't balance Tanks of the provision that everyone is gonna wanna use them!

We also need more combat oriented air vehicles, gunships and bombers are needed, we need stuff that can fight Tanks from a different tier of combat!

Right now i'm thinking the primary weakness of AV is mobility. Given the current resists and the current mobility of tanks what gets AV(necessarily Proto for our new vehicles) killed is lack of mobility.

I'd like to see a mobility platform(think walker frame or hoverdisk) that allowed the normal use of handheld weapons but had only marginal secondary AV-based benefits. Best solution to me would be if we could shoot from the saddle of the personal hoverbike transport solution CCP has talked about. The point is AV would be able to bug out and perhaps live to continue cat-and-mousing with the three to six tanks on the field.

This would make AV rewarding and viable, and we would be able to avoid buffing damage or otherwise altering weapons balance. It would add another layer of gameplay that would interact well with both infantry and vehicles, making for a richer mix and more adaptability for infantry who want an alternative to spending a significant portion of the match in a tank.

This is war, and we should all expect to have to do whatever is required to win. Put it is also an entertainment product, and a portion of the playerbase is not here to be forced into a vehicle-based playstyle because there is no viable tactical alternative.

In planetary conquest matches we can expect teams and squads to evolve viable strategies and tactics, expect combined arms solutions where infantry/vehicles support each other, and accept no excuses. But in pub matches it's a different story - infantry need tools to make the game more interesting than the vehicle-driven stagnation we have atm. I think a mobility option for infantry could satisfy both pilots and infantry, and give us more interesting, visceral matches.