Comrades!

It doesn't matter what HAV you have Soma, Surya or Sagaris. If you will face hostile HAV fully loaded with gunners in 8/10 cases such encounters will turn bad for you.

Of course i'm talking about similar HAVs - for example you drive Surya alone and both missile turrets are empty suddenly you face hostile Surya fully loaded: as i said before in 8/10 cases you will be dead.

I'm writing this (maybe obvious for someone) post to tell - don't hesitate to enter HAV! If your driver is skilled enough and have both shield and armor repair you won't end up in first combat.

P.S.: Plus you get the chance to make score like 33/1 or even higher.

Let the Archangel guide your path!

problem here is the general stupidity of pubbies, or the simple lack of mic users.

I love gunners, and certainly welcome em with open arms. Whether they actually come to help is a whole different factor....

I only fit missile launchers on my secondary guns. I find alot of people magnetically attract to my tank when it comes around.

And what type of gun you use as main one? Railgun?

When there are enemy tanks, I prefer to ride with Blaster or Rail turrets. When there are lots of Dropships, I prefer blasters. When there are LAVs, I prefer Railguns. When the enemy is mostly infantry, I prefer Missile turrets.

And I also routinely jump out of the tank to do repair work or hack points.

That's like leaving the keys to a ferrari on the hood and parking it in the Bronx. xD

I'm writing this (maybe obvious for someone) post to tell - don't hesitate to enter HAV! If your driver is skilled enough and have both shield and armor repair you won't end up in first combat.

You have such expirience dude?

I hear dual tanking is all the rage these days, you get such an awesome tank that can't be beaten.

The short bus is that way ==>

How many Eve players do you know jump out of their Nyx in lowsec space to clean their windshields with their pods.

Forgive me but i don't get the point...

You wanted to say like "dude what nonsence you writting?" or like "great idea m8"?

The former., and there's countless EVE guides talking at lengths on why you should never dualtank except in very weird metagame situations.

Basically it boils down to doing one or the other tank properly, rather than both badly. When adding resistance modules it only applies to one or the other e.g. 50% shield resistance, then the shield booster gives 50% more effective HP per second but the armor repair will not. Same goes for shield extenders or amor plates.

The empty low slots on a shield tanker can either be used for damage or propulsion modules, or for increasing CPU / PG to enable fitting better shield booster, shield extenders, etc.

In the last build and...sort of in this build I have done both shield and armor tanking. It works when your mobile and you take damage to the point that when you fall back you are prepared enough to survive an ambush in your fall back position. Come to think of it though I was mainly using armor reps in the last build and had a crutch on my shield, the down side to that is that sometimes a forge gun will one shot me when I am using low end 120mm armor and my shields are gone. I was wondering if I need to pursue the armor reinforcement and reps or stay on strengthening my shields and keep either a armor or shield rep.

problem here is the general stupidity of pubbies, or the simple lack of mic users.

I love gunners, and certainly welcome em with open arms. Whether they actually come to help is a whole different factor....