Just armor tank and become a medium frame heavy with +600 armor HP. This setup is very good for sniper or LR where mobility isn't a concern.

Nope. Use logistics to fit damage mods while sporting bigger tank and more gank (your main purpose is to kill fast). As a bonus you get the needed equipment slots.

Gallente assault would be interesting if the base speed was better, as it is minmatar assault wins it in even sprint speed with mods.

As a guy who favored armor tanking in EVE, armor will never be on par with shields. But it's still somewhat viable, but you're probably going to have to change your tactics compared to shield. You're most likely going to be more reliant on a logibro, which means not as much lone wolfing. You're going to have to pay more attention to cover also, so less run and gun twitching. Going on the Gallente battle philosophy it looks like you might have to use hit and run tactics. Jet in, do your damage and jet out. Rely more on flanking than the direct approach in most cases. I like theory crafting too, so take this with a grain of salt.

Well i will be using the reinforced pvc gimp suit that is the gall assault as i also have something of a eve armor back ground .

In eve armor is also balanced buy the need for electronic warfare and propulsion on almost all ships

But this thing is all the good tactics u mention are possible and probably better suited to the faster suits remember were going to have to stack armor to get any good hit points making us the worst for hit and run

What I see there is dependent on a Logi.

Now thats not necessarily a bad thing since it will generate Triage and Guardian SP ticks. Also Im not sure If im analysing it well but Armour does not suffer from the what I would call "anti shield weapons" (consequently I know they suffer from their own weaknesses) such as the specialised Flux Grenades and the Amarri Laser and Scrambler weapons.

I have my own arguments as to why I prefer Armour tank, but since I have played both types of Assault suit I understand the pro and cons of each.

I'm curious as to what people think about my potential Gallente assault build:

3 complex shield extenders
3 basic armor plates
1 complex armor rep

I like the basic armor plates because overall they'd give me only a 9% movement penalty but more armor then one complex plate. Downside is it uses up a lot of slots. Does the armor movement penalty percentage have a stacking penalty?