Easy for you to say when you don't have a 700k Tank at risk. If there is any wandering AV units -- They must be handled accordingly ASAP. Every second puts you further at risk of an ambush.

Small blasters do suck. Even the mini Ion Cannon can't effectively kill infantry. There is not a strategic fit to use with them as guns for your tank to use as a Anti-Vehicle/ Anti-Personnel cross. It needs more range & less dispersion to compensate for the fire rate. It just sprays bullets everywhere making it an ammo sink & if you're playing Doms with it -- You're screwed cause 75% of the maps don't even have depots on the ground that can be accessed by tanks. I think it really could use a Range Buff with DMG Buff or Range Buff with a Dispersion Buff.

Why put Mini Ion Cannons when I can put XT's to damage armor or Mini Particle Cannons to wreck shields without fail & have cross fits that are meant to suppress or killl infantry as well? (Seriously the Caldari rail doing so much damage to shields is stupid. Its a spearhead to penetrate armor, Not shields. Bring back the Gal Rail for shields so this can make better sense & fix the proficiency.) I will say, The Mini Ion Cannon is a little better when it got a buff(?) in one of the Alpha-Delta patches. I say that because it used to be way worse & you just couldn't go anywhere but up from that point.


Added note:

If Enforcers & Marauders come back, They are going to be OP with the current LRG Turret DMG base. Its gonna take 3 Spiked Gunnlogis just to take out one Falchion/Vayu or Sagaris/Surya because they will have bonuses to improve turret performance or the slots for defense. --Hope CCP really does look at that before releasing the old tanks again. But like I said before, Changing base damages on LRG Turrets means more rework for Rail Vs. Dropship & so on. I don't know what CCP will do. I made a thread on this, But CCP never looked at it I suppose. Its a serious issue they will have to face. I really want my old tanks to return & I hope CCP does the right thing with keeping vehicles balanced along with AV users too.