I solo tanks all the time with a Kubos plc and packed lai dais on my gal scout. What's the problem?

Tanks are supposedly impossible to kill because they have 2 hardeners active

now until it is viable to have just a single hardener active that's how it's going to be. we also have horid blaster accuracy

And anyone who wants thier lockon weapon to do as much dps or more now needs to leave, you are the cancer killing all vehicle gameplay in games. (planetside 2 isn't as bad)
go fly an incubus and tell me how useless your hardener is.

While I won't say that tanks aren't difficult to take down solo or there are some issues with hardener timers, often times destroying one isn't exactly needed.

While I haven't played much since the latest patch, just a few games, I personally didn't have as much trouble with tanks. If it's a rail or missile tank, I generally move along mostly ignoring it as the threat is minimal.

Blasters on the other hand can be a threat but very limited to certain maps in their total effectiveness. But let's make something clear here, driving a tank off is just as good as killing it.

Given the costs of a proto tanks, terribly sorry but I honestly can't say that a single AV wielder should have the ability to control the entire field on their own.


This all said, I played a few games, one in my FG fit and another in my tank.

There were 2 tanks out as I was running a cal forger. Focusing on the sweet spot and utilizing AV nades I was able to kill a STD maddie. The gunnie on the other hand took a bit more work (missiles anyways, didn't even need to bother). But I did manage to keep the thing on it's toes, forcing it to move and never allowing it camp a point.

The match I ran my maddie in, I started out cal assault (dom). Made several kills but my team was weak and unable to make a push on the point. It was a fairly open point so I called down some muscle. I was the only tank to come down so the enemy was not expecting what was about to happen.

Roll into the backside, 8 red dots nice and grouped around a CRU. Made a few kills, broke up their momentum and let my blue dots move in and mop up and flip the point. Kept this up for a few minutes until the AV came out and forced me to play it safe. Almost got me a few times but I managed to keep them pushed back. Though I had boots on the ground picking off the somewhat defenseless AV guys.

In the end though, my team just wasn't up to snuff and I resorted to taking pop shots from the back and at the very end was forced to retreat by another tank.


All in all though, I think if you play it smart, AV can have the upper hand. Though if you expect to sit on a roof top and shoot at a tank, you won't ever do anything more than be a nuisance. Throw a little effort behind your weapon and you can solely keep a tank suppressed and ineffective.