Vesta Opalus
Kang Lo Holding
39
   |
Posted - 2014.09.26 18:24:00 -
[1] - Quote
REDBACK96USMC wrote:Atiim wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:Atiim wrote:HAVs against AV (at least Swarms) are fine. 2 Hardeners and an Extender make you immune to them, but Madrugars get demolished by them if they decide to go for HP/s over HP.
If you do fit and Armor Plate or two, you'll live against SLs long enough to reach cover and repair your HP completely. But if you get caught in the open without cover, you can kiss your vehicle goodbye (which is balanced). No Atiim. AV vs. HAV is fine. The reverse is not true. AV is in a good spot. HAV offensive capacity is not. Offensive capability against what? Keep in mind that Large Turrets are supposed to be Anti-Vehicle weapons. Should be AV and Light Mobile Artillery. Tanks were originally invented and intended as Anti-Infantry weapons platforms. I get how that could break the game but there are minor tweaks that could allow it to fulfill that role without being OP.
Quick note on the invention of tanks, they were not created as an anti infantry weapon, they were created to be an anti trench weapon. The infantry inside the trenches were largely a secondary concern.
And then tanks proliferated into a massive number of silly designs in the interwar period which were rapidly and brutally proven either good or **** during early stages in world war II, leaving you with a bunch of archetypical purposes (such as heavy main battle tanks or tank destroyers, etc) which each filled a different purpose. Tanks frequently had anti infantry weapons mounted on them (e.g. driver/captain machine guns) but were rarely designed specifically to kill infantry, because killing infantry is a trivial task. Tanks were there to break up lines and exploit openings in enemy lines, they were usually designed around blowing the **** out of other tanks/armored vehicles/pillboxes and going fast while not getting themselves blown up by enemy tanks.
Lets try not to bring reality into dust because it doesnt fit in any way, shape, or form to the way dust works and the way dust is limited (16 v 16 arena shooter is not analagous in many ways to large open theatres of war that real tanks were designed to play in).
|