I wouldn't say they're broken. I remember when we had no redline to speak of, and our missle tanks would just camp under the enemy MCC and shoot guys as they jumped out. We could then pop up over the hill and snipe guys across the map with that same missile turret - it was OP.

I think AV needs a bit of a buff - that's all it will take to thin the tank herd.

now the only thing i find op on tanks is the numbers, there are many on the battlefield, and the maps makes targeting infantry easy, thats all i have against tanks

False, Railguns deal 110% to armor, 90% to shields.

We have always had a red line you dumb ****.

Indeed. There were match types that lacked a redline. Those MCCs could move in Skirmish 1.0, and we did camp the MCC. There was also a 3 point map where the MCC was forward of the red line, over a large hill (we camped it as well). Directly down the hill was a point on a little hill, and off to the left there was a big hill and a type of tall building with a controll point (now that building has an odd flatspace used by snipers) and bland 'city' buildings below. On that hill we'd call in LAVs and snipe stuff all across the map. I miss that map.

Why do people keep saying railguns are anti-armour? My ingame read outs say bonus to shields.

I spend most of my time these days dealing 89% to Somas.

I feel that the main issue I have with tanks and their "OPness" was over their initial speed. I feel that even with the AV nerd, it shouldn't be impossible to wreck a tank IF you had a group of infantry working together with AV. The problem I ran into is that when I had that squad work and we actually threatened said tanks, they always just sped up and got away to lick their wounds.

Rumor has it the speed was a glitch (GǪokay, whateverGǪ) but its been a few weeks, now. If the speed were corrected I feel that coordinated squads can break a tank. If we had webifier equipment then some fun ambush opportunities would arise.

My main recommendation for AV strategies now has to be Laser OB, or other vehicles. Which is depressing considering that means all other options require recklessness and luck to pull off. (RE Scouts, god bless you but you are crazy!)

It's pretty crazy really. Has there ever been another patch that made a whole role (AV) obsolete? The most effective anti-tank tactics involve REs and rail tanks, neither of which involve the designated AV weapons that AVers have sunk millions of SP into.

I have 28mil SP and plenty of other roles I can play. But it must be devastating for lower SP players who have specialized in a role, which is what everyone always told them to do, but then find there's no place for it anymore.