Tebu Gan
Dem Durrty Boyz
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.06.18 13:17:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:
The Murder taxi is a ridiculous tactic and sometimes it's overbearing but I am a true-LAV user and the last thing it needs is Murder taxis ruining it for everyone.
It's a hard tactic to counter you've pointed that out but I have a solid RE counter strategy that rarely fails but it does require RE's. Again at the heart the Murder Taxi is only as effective as the HMG and the heavy.
It's true that LAV removes the mobility loss from the equation which seems unfair but hell I don't want people to pin the crime on the LAV. It's not the LAV's fault that it can be used by anyone and everyone. Certain villains paint it ugly which is the true crime here.
The criminal is purely the Heavy-HMG- LAV relationship not the Heavy-Pistol-LAV, not the Heavy Anything Else LAV. Heavies and HMG's are also a common issue on the ground in terms of balance.
The Murder Taxi is just a volunteer from the same root.
I'm in the same boat as this guy. I don't see the LAV as the problem. It's a tool just like any other, there if you are willing to gamble the ISK. I predominately use mine to hunt other tanks, and have tried this tactic you described to much success and a few failures thrown in. Hell I'll even slide that thing sideways and use it as cover.
That HMG is deadly, most other heavies setup differently wouldn't be as annoying. But throw an HMG on there with an LAV and you can murder some bluedots. But even with that said, it's not 100% fool proof, and generally works best on someone running around by themselves!
And I disagree with the notion that AV nades are useless against LAV's. I've been using them on my forge setup at STD level of all things, and generally use those to kill LAV. Unfit LAV's crumble to 2 packed STD AV nades. No, you won't kill an LAV that has a half decent fit, with just 2 nades, but I know for a fact that you will severely damage that thing, leaving it open for others to finish the job.
My favorite though as been watching LAV's zoom up to me, single forge shot to em, get them weak and angry like a charging bull. I've had several LAV's that would have turned me into roadkill, but drop a single AV nade after a forge shot and boom, dead LAV. Then I calmly jump back in my LAV as the burning wreckage flies past.
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