KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2015.04.30 04:38:00 -
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Sorry, from my experience they aren't.
However, compared to the paper tanks laughingly called shield tanks they are considerably easier to fit for survivability. Shield vehicles suck. That is the reason most run armor.
Armor tanks can double hardeners and repair modules. The higher the level of tank, the higher BOTH can go. Proto allows dual Complex Hardeners and dual Complex Heavy Armor Repair. A driver that is aware of their surroundings, how many are chasing after them (with murder in their hearts), and is familiar with the layout of the map in the specific battle mode and with the particular sockets the map came with - they can survive quite a bit.
However, if you get stuck on a box, a ladder, a ramp, a cliff edge or one of a hundred problem areas that a real tank would drive right over and your very expensive tank is just another smoking ruin.
Now, if you come after in my armor tank Maddy ADV/PRO and you are alone with MLT to STD gear, well have a good time making +75WP for damaging me but unless I make a mistake you will not kill me. Your buddy running up behind me with those stinking Lai Dai Packed AV grenades - he will.
Which is why I try not to sit still for all that long. 
My favorite tank is a Lightning. Just sayin.
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2015.04.30 11:43:00 -
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Karam Arami wrote:
Yes I did rage but I do have a valid point he indeed was a std tank he was sitting there taking full volleys of everything I listed earlier but armor tanks still shouldn't be that invincible he took a total of 19 swarms and 31 kubos shots before he mowed me down and I kept pulling those suits since I had alot of them and just wanted to get rid of that one tank because no one else bothered but my squad mates and to put Astroghini is one of the best tankers in dust and an organized leader we timed each volley as was ordered if anything I couldn't even get damage on it. I'm not a tanker I find it boring I leave that to Astro I've seen him take down proto armor tanks with sicas.
It is really tough to explain this to a non-tanker. It is even worse in this exchange because you don't want the information, you just want the results to be different so you can kill this one tank cause its not fair. You even state that normally your squad can beat tanks. Dude, some guys are better at this than the rest of us.
You still didn't tell us his armor values. If he is holding onto more than 2700 armor his is using plates. Do the math, more armor means more thick stuff to get through. If 4K that takes more effort to knock it down. If 5K even more. You also didn't talk about hardeners. They used to not work at all. Now they are okay, they drop 40% off of armor damage. Multiple hardeners have stacking penalties but they work. Single hardener, triple repair. Armor plates plus two repair. Several options can foil an AV squad.
If you find tanks boring - fine, leave them be when you cannot beat the one tanker out of twenty you come up against. If you don't learn enough about them then all I am doing is wasting bits cause you don't want to learn something new. You just want to win without doing any math or using different gear. Or telling me enough information to explain the reality of the situation to you.
BTW, Astro can take down Proto tanks with a Sica cause the Sica is a tank and he is a good tanker.
Any good tanker can mount a Particle Accelerator on a Sica. With damage mods. Just sayin.
My favorite tank is a Lightning. Just sayin.
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