This is a lie, you may can down a militia with 3 shots, my proto swarms with 2 damage mods is not downing them with a clip, because hardeners will always activate long before then. Flyers can also EASILY avoid swarms, veteran Flyers laughed at swarms before 1.7. If you are being hit by a 3rd swarm volley, you are a bad flyer.

A single swarmer isn't downing dropships, 2 more than likely not going to either. The flyers knows your location the moment you shoot your swarms, and with 150 range, DS can easily zone you while racking kills/transporting, while you and your buddy is sitting in that 1 spot being useless to the team and gaining no WP.

there was no bitching about railguns before swarms and forges were nerfed. people just switch to what is most effective.

and NO, expecting multiple infantry to take time out from fighting a whole team of enemy infantry and coordinate perfectly in expensive gear to take down your lone wolfing spawn camping kill farming DS is not an answer.

One AV should be able to force off a DS, after all they're sacrificing 90% of their effectiveness as an infantry unit and making themselves incredibly vulnerable to enemy infantry as well as becoming #1 kill priority to the vehicle(s) they are trying to destroy.

PS tanks aint god mode, at long range use cover - you may need to use the TEAMWORK that you so insist AV must use - IE have tank spotter looking at the map.

At short to mid range a DS can fly faster and higher than a railgun can track.

Of course you all want tanks nerfed. What's the point of these threads if they're not to have tanks nerfed? And again, you have/had access to tanks, yet still had to use AV to destroy other vehicles, because you were so bad in your own tank. You should see it from our side before going on an antitank crusade.

Neither dropships or railguns need major changes. But both need minor changes.

I would suggest:

20% nerf to current railgun damage.
25% buff to overall dropship HP across both STD and ADS.
No change to tank HP.

This should make dropships last 4-5 shots, enough time for an experienced pilot to escape, but still not long enough for them to be unkillable. However it is not long enough for an amateur to escape. It also makes tanks more resilient to railguns, making tank v tank last longer.

When it comes to the power of dropships, since 1.7 dropped, I have yet to be killed by one while on the ground (aside from myself of course). Maybe thats because as a pilot I know how to evade, but if you understand how to strafe, only the very best pilots will get you.

The redline could do with tweaks too, but nothing extreme.