It's like chess. A pawn can take a queen if its positioned right. For the queen to be in that position though, the player must have made that decision.

To bring greater power to the table, you take greater risks.

In the end, the better players win. Gear does matter to some extent, but that's why upgrades don't give significant boosts. Not enough to turn a game around just because you have better gear, at any rate.

Once again, this can be related to chess. If all your pieces were kings, you'd obviously have an advantage over the person who has the normal pieces, but if you don't know how kings work, you're going to have a bad time.

I'm personally horrible at chess but I find it fascinating, to see the risks laid out in every move, to watch the pros and see their next dozen moves laid out in their head. The same applies to calling in tanks. You have to predict what the battlefield will look like once you call in the HAV, by assessing what's happening currently.

LOL this guys just pissed he cant drive he was calling NERF to the FG vs Dropships to

Alright man, as a fellow HAV operator, I feel your pain. TRUST ME. Ive bitched about this in my own fair number of threads. Just listen up.

Militia Swarm Launchers aren't obnoxiously overpowered as you may think. I used to drive Militia Tanks all the time, so much even that I know I lost at least 5 mil worth of them before moving on to REAL tanks, AKA Gunloggi or Madrugar. The way you wrote your post gave me the impression you want to go on an infantry obliterating joyride in your tank of choice.

Even the most lowly noob needs some method of getting rid of a public enemy, especially one in the form of an HAV. Just because you paid 500k for a fully fit Gunloggi does not entitle you to a 40/0 K/D per game.

Lets look at this on a real world scenario. Infantry are in possession of Anti-Tank weapons for a reason: to kill tanks. The average LAW costs like a tiny $5k or so (my numbers may be off) but they are designed to kill tanks that cost on the magnitude of millions of dollars to produce.

Why? Tanks are a relic of older times. The times when we needed to cross trenches and attack fortifications have long since passed, but have not disappeared entirely. Basically its like if the man who invented the catapult tried to keep his invention alive long past its era, there would simply be too many ways to kill it as time progressed. Same with tanks. There are Helicopters, Ground Attack Planes, Missiles, and yes, Rocket Launchers, all meant to kill tanks as they became a problem over the years.

Most of these modern weaknesses carried over into DUST. Even though you can pimp out your tank with some insane HP, there will still be a means to kill it. Since noobs cant be forced to train Swarm Launchers as their first skill, they have to be given some cheap way to kill tanks. And Forge Guns? Hypersonic pieces of metal being shot from a rather sizable weapon? Hell I don't mind those at all. This is EVE, the technology makes sense.

But screw AV Grenades. For real. I want to backhand the idiot who conceived that idea.

I laugh at militia swarms.. just sayin