KingBabar
The Rainbow Effect
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Posted - 2013.12.30 11:10:00 -
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Come on Jason, Your entire post is BS and you should know it.
First of, laying traps for the tanks to drive over is not "proper AV play", we're talking more about area denial here, like mining the entrances to a city.
That entire fitiing you post is utterly stupid, no good groundpounder would ever use a fitting like that.
I do however think that the Whole vehicle mechanic is way more fun now than earlier, tanks are much cheaper leading to actual fights, not the pussyfooting we've been used to from most tankers since early beta, and yes this goes even before that major AV buff. (And I do understand that People wanted to protect their 2M isk asset.)
The mines are good enough as they are IMO, but not really any form of effective AV short of area denial.
Here is what I do:
I must use 2 dampeners, and 1 stamina mod just to be able to get Close to tanks, which basically depletes all my low slots, no armor here. Then I fit a set of Remote explosivers, a skanner which is needed to track these riddiculously fast tanks and a set of proto AV nades.
I have to sneak up/flank a tank and be Lucky enough to not get spotted by him, any infantry or indeed the other 5 tanks that buzzes around him. When that is done I have to spend (I dunno for sure) about 6-8 Seconds deploying my REs which he needs to stand still for me to use With accuracy enough to hit will all 3 that I do need. Then I have to step back a little, blow the mines and finish him of With my Lai Dais.
I've done this lately and managed to take out about one tank per 2 hours of game time I would Guess. It Works but it is insanely frustrating a lot of the time and the odds ore greatly stacked in favor of the tank, I die a lot of times doing this, its very difficult sometimes. And this is putting a 205 K isk and 25 Mill SP suit up against a 70K tank With no skills and it gets frustrating, at least it would be if my isk account hadn't been as big as it is....
And With the exception of the Amarr logi, you have to choose between carrying mines and nades With a logi suit or a LOL swarms/smg av nade loadout With an Assault or scout suit. Combining swarms, nades and mines just isn't viable except for the commando suit....
The only truly effective Counter to tanks these days are other tanks and that is obviously wrong.
Personally I would be satisfied With a New Version of the RE's meant for vehicles working the same way but With a bigger bang, having to put 4 of those Things just to blow up an unmodded militia tank seems a bit eccessive no?
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