Have you ever played an Ambush? Get three or four tanks running around camping the smart deploy and tell me again how infantry can something something full cover.

Disclaimer: I know tankbush is broken, but I love it for the fast action and very decent payouts.

Redline rails and tanks nascar-ing it to the redline. Boom. Roasted.

What does this even mean? A tank is a force multiplier with what can be easily argued little risk, great reward, so it stands to reason that you will want to reduce the force multiplication to even the playing field.

"Oh great. A tank is moving past Bravo and headed to Charlie, switching to AV so we can kill it and resume playing the game."

We brought in the frogs to deal with the gnats. We brought in the snakes to deal with the frogs. We brought in the mongooses to deal with the snakes. What are we gonna do about all these mongooses?

What kind of setup do you run? And I'll take that bet if I ever see you in a match. Granted, it's unlikely that I'll ever see you in a match.

Lol at all the complaining. Dude, the tanks themselves are not OP. It's that fact that you can call one in for dirt cheap. make a MLT Tank cost the same as the most expensive Proto suit. Problem solved.

But Keep reading!

I must propose some questions to you all. Please take these questions into consideration

General:

Did you tank before 1.7?

No? Don't complain because you do not understand how bad their ability to take damage was.

To Tankers:

Were you tanking pre 1.7?

Were You proto?

Were you happy getting two shotted by forge guns?

Were you happy getting killed by ONE PERSON?

How much did your GOOD tanks cost?

To AV Users:

You should not be able to kill a tank with ONE Person.

Do you just assume you should be able to One/ Two shot any vehicle in existence on DUST?

Have you run any sort of variance in your AV? Forges? Swarms? Grenades? Proxies? Remotes?

Do you charge blaster tanks head on?

You take the path of the old lady.

Die.

To AV Users:

You should not be able to kill a tank with ONE Person.

Then you should know that this is an empty retort filled with pure nonsense... Ambush should never have had tanks to begin with because of a lack of planning, I've been saying that for about 3 months now...

If you are being harried by a redline tank as an infantry unit, you have to be standing incredibly still to really take any flak from one. That's far more vehicle vs vehicle than vehicle vs infantry at any evaluation...

It means what you just spewed back to me. People focus on tanks that do very little, and completely ignore the ground troops that may actually be the ones decimating your team. Why? Because you see the tank as a larger and much easier to track object, so whenever you see it roll closer you immediately start feeling offended... but that Proto Logi that was killing you over and over again, but you never really got to look at? Out of sight is out of mind.

If the person who switched to AV actually knew how to use it, that tank wouldn't be able to stay by "Charlie". I've destroyed quite a few tanks that just don't look where they are driving.
Militia suits with logical AV use are incredibly cheap and highly effective at removing vehicles.

On average my suit expenditure is about 8,000 ISK per tank destroyed.

It does not however, take away from the fact that in this case, infantry are completely exposed and vulnerable to tanks with no means of retaliation.

What I am saying is that tanks can completely avoid infantry from the redline. Nasty lil rail tank shooting at your buddies' vehicles? Good luck trying to swarm or forge, the red tank can just move back just a teensy bit and is completely in cover while hardeners/reppers take effect.

Or! Shoot a tank with some AV weapon and it zooms off to the deep deep redline like a drag racer.

"tanks that do very little"? I don't even remember the last time I saw a tank do "very little". What is your definition of very little? 12/0? 8/0? Even then its because there are 4 or 5 tanks doing "very little" and it adds up. Nice try.

And infantry completely ignoring ground troops that are melting faces? What, did you take a community survey to confirm your claim? I cannot speak for the community about how they prioritize targets, but it may be safe to assume that a good number of players will want a piece of [insert leet corp slayer] when he/she is going on kill 12/0 with his SCR and LAV. I know I do.

I do love me some cheap AV fits. Hey, 8k is the total cost of my Jihad jeep fit! BPO suit and LAV, the only isk spent is the REs. Is that your load out too?

Ambush is a broken outlier gamemode, and does not clarify anything in the least.
You're that guy at an office meeting who jabs his finger at a single outlier as "proof" when thousands of other tested points fall on the complete other end of the chart...
The guy who sees a car without an engine and says it needs better tires... etc.. Ambush is broken and cannot be used to validate anything in your argument.

Now you're complaining that tanks can kill other tanks?
Any tank that is in the redline is not doing much of anything to help their team. And if it has to run back to the redline, that means it's most likely a blaster tank. Never seen a blaster kill anything worthwhile from the redline.

You, yourself said that the tank simply drove past another point, and that warranted a callout to everyone else in the squad.
12/0 is an "incredible and unstoppable enemy" anymore, but only if it's a tank, while those 30/4 ground troops are just there for decoration.
If there is more than one tank on the field, the chances of another tank being both useful, and getting a score that high are severely miniscule. 7/2 is a normal game average from what I've seen.
The tank will either be on the field, or in the hills. If they are on the field they are going to be killed a minimum of once per game, and if they are in the hills, they will be evasive, but wildly useless toward any goals other than keeping vehicles off the infantry.

In nearly all of the games I've played, tanks are almost always too busy with other tanks to afford focusing against infantry.
It doesn't matter how many kills they get if they're too busy avoiding being the center of attention to assist with securing a point.

As for the infantry completely ignoring other infantry? It happens more than I would care to see, why? Because they obsess with the tank and simply stop paying attention to other ground forces. They then often come here to rant and rave about the tank that magically hacked the objectives inside of buildings because everyone else was outside staring down that same said tank...
In other words, they obsessed so much about the tanks themselves, that they simply didn't notice what the enemy infantry was doing. Announcing tank positions was of much higher priority in their minds.

As for ineffective tanks? High scores do not make one effective on the field, it is the location of combat that makes one effective, or not so. A tank that does 0 kills but distracts from a point long enough for it to be hacked and uplinked is effective. A tank that kills 12+ people while wandering all around the map is ineffective.

Teamwork for thee, but no teamwork for me

Tanker credo 101

Lol at all the complaining. Dude, the tanks themselves are not OP. It's that fact that you can call one in for dirt cheap. make a MLT Tank cost the same as the most expensive Proto suit. Problem solved.

But Keep reading!

I must propose some questions to you all. Please take these questions into consideration

General:

Did you tank before 1.7?

No? Don't complain because you do not understand how bad their ability to take damage was.

To Tankers:

Were you tanking pre 1.7?

Were You proto?

Were you happy getting two shotted by forge guns?

Were you happy getting killed by ONE PERSON?

How much did your GOOD tanks cost?

To AV Users:

You should not be able to kill a tank with ONE Person.

Do you just assume you should be able to One/ Two shot any vehicle in existence on DUST?

Have you run any sort of variance in your AV? Forges? Swarms? Grenades? Proxies? Remotes?

Do you charge blaster tanks head on?

Lol at all the complaining. Dude, the tanks themselves are not OP. It's that fact that you can call one in for dirt cheap. make a MLT Tank cost the same as the most expensive Proto suit. Problem solved.

But Keep reading!

I must propose some questions to you all. Please take these questions into consideration

General:

Did you tank before 1.7?

No? Don't complain because you do not understand how bad their ability to take damage was.

To Tankers:

Were you tanking pre 1.7?

Were You proto?

Were you happy getting two shotted by forge guns?

Were you happy getting killed by ONE PERSON?

How much did your GOOD tanks cost?

To AV Users:

You should not be able to kill a tank with ONE Person.

Do you just assume you should be able to One/ Two shot any vehicle in existence on DUST?

Have you run any sort of variance in your AV? Forges? Swarms? Grenades? Proxies? Remotes?

Do you charge blaster tanks head on?

From your questions it seems you have little understanding of the tank versus av battle. Both past and present.

Most MLT tanks are garbage.