thats not always the case ive read and seen many cases that a fast mobile unit and bleed out a slower heavy armored unit take knights versus samurai the samurai won in many fights quick strike and dodge or parry quick strike dodge or parry rinse and repeat.

on a second note scouts are fine as is and so is the heavies i belive the logi and assualt though need a slight armor and shield boost esp the logi

Here is what this thread taught me today. That people have a very outdated sense of roles and what they are. Nowhere does it say that I have to play the scout as a sniper, or some off-beat pansy who drops droplinks, and hides behind corners. It's not my fault you suck at aiming, or are ill equiped to fight against someone in close quarter combat. I bet some of you would tell me a woman's place is in the kitchen and at home being a mother and making more children. Seriously some of you have some out moded sense of direction. I do fine a spec-ops scout and I love knowing how angry you all get over it. Makes me laugh aloud. I bet someone in a tank cried once when they realized they got bombed by a scout with a swarm launcher. Yup. Let me tell ya'.

I can play any role I want so long as I the player can adapt to the dropsuit, and make said dropsuit do as I need it to. If I want to turn my heavy into an assault monster I will. If I want my assault to be a shield tanking heavy I can (minus the HMG or forge gun). If I want my logistics to be all anti-vehicle I certainly will. The list goes on. Some of you need to realize we're in the modern age. It's funny because, in real life LAV's can be armed with anti-tank weaponry and rip apart tanks. Go figure. If the passanger of an LAV can use weapons though get a heavy in an LAV armed with a forge gun or swarm launcher and rip through them all day.

This thread? Pointless.

The only thing good from this thread is the recognition that the 'heavy' still needs minor balancing and tweeks; and that the HMG needs something more then it does already. I do not play as a 'heavy', but heavies are my friends. They are like can openers. They open up vehicles and get all of the attention while I steal objectives, and take CRU's (Clone Reanimation Unit).

Seriously though in the end it comes down to the "player" being able to adapt, and overcome situations or obstacles. On the battlefield or otherwise. If you want to play the game a certain way that you find fun, but is not suited to your style then you have a problem. Overcome and adapt.

So yeah before you tell Ad Ski to think, how about you think first. CCP has made it so no person has two main weapons to allow for all around purposes

Ummm no.
The heavy infantryman just switches to a morningstar or bladed hammer and a few seconds later the light infantryman dies.
In fact when it was heavy infantry versus light it was the heavy won in CQC.

The only instances of light winning versus heavy was at a DISTANCE i.e. the French using bow and arrows to kill the heavy English infantry at a DISTANCE and NEVER in CQC.

Thats why I an AGAINST the heavy using an AR or a sniper rifle as it is better suited to heavy weapons for AV or NON-precise weapons AKA pray and spray in CQC like the HMG.

The Scout, logi and assault need be the only suits that can equip AR or sniper rifles as this provides definitive killing at distance roles for them and preserving the heavies role to be superior in CQC only.

Yeah!!
That makes perfect sense!

Real life from my City:
Seven guys with AK 74s and in light police tactical gear went up against seven military police in full COMBAT tactical gear and using Squad Assault Heavy Weapons.


Guess who died??

No.
Try holding a machete to parry as someone swings a ten pound hammer at you and the result will be shattered bone the same as when the hammer meets a concrete wall that by the way is much better than a human face at absorbing hammer blows.

They tried that with light trucks versus tanks in Irak at Basra and at the Highway of Death.
Guess who died??

The Game has a NONSENSE situation where a light suit can better withstand damage than a heavy suit.
The same NONSENSE as a motorcycle and a truck crashing head on and yet the truck explodes and the motorcycle is undamaged??

NONSENSE!!

Oh but the heavy has a slower turning speed?
NONSENSE!!

My small cat dozer and my very large cat dozer turn radius is the same speed.
Both are bulldozers except one is much larger than the other.

Both take the same amount of time to turn from the excavation to the waiting dump trucks.
The only variable is one of them can push a lot more dirt in a given direction.

Direct quote cut and paste from CCPs own mouth:

"The Heavy dropsuit is a second-generation solution designed to withstand concentrated small arms fire and protect the wearer from the concussive, thermal, and impact forces of low-grade explosives. Additionally, its power-assisted exoskeleton facilitates usage of the heaviest caliber personal weapons.
Every vital area of the wearer is protected by 25mm composite ceramic shell or high tensile steel plates, layered with impact absorbing, compressed carbon latticework. A secondary thermal dispersion membrane channels excess heat away from the point of contact, distributing it over a larger surface area and thereby lessening the potential damage. Superconductive veins of hybrid silver coat the outer layers and connect every piece of the armor to a grounding heat sink, dampening the harmful effects of direct fire electromagnetic weaponry.
Heavy dropsuits lack the mobility of lighter suits, but this trade-off results in a defensive system that defies standard infantry conventions. No other classification of personal armor can claim to be able to stand toe-to-toe with enemy vehicles and survive."

So why does it feel like rice paper coupled with lead boots?

@Tarn Adari.

When a minigun shoots there is NO EVADE there is only DIE, DIED and DYING.
And troops from long ago did not stupidly stand there as a pikeman killed them.

Thats what training was used for to teach what troops do what and the tactics to counter them so if they see a pikeman formation they have many minutes to prepare a counter of archers or spearmen or have the morningstars ready to use in an instant.
And heavy troops were feared by light troops for the very reason that heavy troops tended to kill the light troops and then enter the conquered Cities and enjoy the women.

And my examples of shooting are from where I am at where ex military that joined the Cartels are at war with the regular military.
So when I see a helicopter gunship split a truck with the bullet stream there is no evade there are only bodies.