These proto tanks just won't die if hardeners are on.

We went into a trap with the knowledge it was a trap. 4 swarmers, 1 forge, 1 rail shield tank. Rolled to that shield tanks face. Shot his face off. And dips out while laughing. Running 2 over on the way out.

These things are glorious. You need a combined effort with people that are skilled into av to take these out. Also 2 damage mods on a ion cannon might be slightly op... but that's the trade off. High risk high reward..

They gonna nerf hardeners sooner or later but it doesn't matter right now.
How do you guys enjoy your Madrugars?
Armor tank wasn't immune to AV since early 1.7 [big vehicles changes, right?] patch.
Now we have some time [or longer] to annoy people, better use that time.

I like to just sit there in front of people with my hardeners on letting them shoot me.

Also I love sitting there farming infantry when I know a blaster tank is waiting in the redline to dive at me, when he comes I just pop hardeners and ignore him, continue farming infantry, once they get close to expiring go to redline, rinse and repeat.

Yesterday I faked someone into popping hardeners, and then run away, came back once they were nearly down and wrecked his **** despite the two swarm launchers taking shots at me from, bailed to my redline as another tank came in trying to chase me down, my hardeners went down as I trolololed into my redline, the enemy tank followed me but I was able to maintain enough distance to keep his blaster damage down enough to stay above 800 hp the whole time. The enemy tank followed me a bit too far though and died to redline timer. Trolling complete.

Same match, later, while fighting yet another enemy tank (both hardened so of course the whole fight was just bait for AV), the two AV began firing at me again, so I just waltzed over and murdered them while the enemy tank couldn't do a thing.

That's a shield tank.

Try going up against a pro Maddy with dual hardeners and reps. You will wish you didn't walk down that ally on that cold rainy night.

I'd say CCP Rattati will react a bit faster to this than CCP Wolfman did back in 1.7.... of course back then even militia tanks were wrecking things... but yeah, there's a problem.

It has got old really quick.

HAV battles are getting less and less, if it shield then it is in the redline with a railgun since it cannot compete, maddy is same fit as everyone else as was predicted.

Since HAV have been revamped and more AV is about it kills any other vehicle playstyle dead, try using an ADS and it is worse than before.

If they nerf hardeners again then it just proves they have no idea.

Hardeners off they die real quick since base HP got nerfed into the ground so infact they die quicker than before when cold.

JLAV still work.

All they did was nerf shield and make armor good while buffing AV and failing to fix AV.

Same problems exist while it costs more ISK/SP to field one, novelty has worn off.


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