Infantry < Marauders < Enforcers < Infantry, and Basic HAVs can be fitted to slot in anywhere.


Essentially what I'm thinking is make Marauders a hyper-durable hull, in the order of 2-3x as durable as a traditional HAV. Balance by separating the turrets.

Give tighter dispersion on all turrets as a reward for levelling, as well as passive resistance (say 5% per level), and a flat nerf of say 30% to Large Turret damage output, like the old LLAVs.

The durability of these vehicles would make them superior to a generalist-fit Basic HAV, but inferior to a fitting designed to destroy them. They would also require teamwork to operate, balancing them against the potential for two HAVS more traditionally. I'd perhaps consider adding medium turrets as the passenger's weapon, to differentiate them from the Pilot and the Gunner.

Their natural counter would be the Enforcer, which would have a comparable, but slightly inferior durability to traditional hulls, with tighter dispersion, somewhat greater range and a significant damage bonus, say, 10% per level. It would be somewhat more mobile than the traditional hull, as a compensation for its price and relative lack of durability. Like the Marauder, it would have a separated turret/pilot.

Essentially, all of these vehicle hulls would be equivalent to 2 Basic HAVs, as justified by their greater co-operation necessitated by the split away layout.
It would be possible for a competent pair of tankers to defeat the combined might of a competent Specialist crew, but it would be comparatively easy for a Specialist Crew to deal with its counterpart.


The issue here of course would be the lack of adequate infantry response to a Marauder team, although competently combined arms would serve to drive it off, and I would recommend that three proto-AV wielders could efficiently destroy a Marauder.

An Enforcer would optimally be destroyed by a single (highly) competent proto-AV user, with two easily destroying it.


This would hopefully allow the use of Marauder hulls to breach as infantry support, but requiring competent infantry AV support to survive Enforcer challenges.

(This is really a WIP at the moment; I'm considering recommending Black Ops hulls as the third part of the triangle instead of infantry, while recommending that infantry AV and Basic HAVs could slot in at any point based on fitting)