DUST Search - Shield HAV Vs Armor HAV

Villanor Aquarius wrote:

When it comes to fighting tanks you all are doing it wrong. Shield fit missile tank will destroy any armor tank if you aren't terrible.
Missiles do 129% damage to armor. They are the only turret that does bonus damage to armor. Also shield tanks are more nimble than armor tanks and missiles have a base range of about 250m.
Take a missile tank out and stay at distance from a blaster tank and use your decent tracking and higher acceleration to stay at range and pound on his armor.
The biggest risk to a shield missile tank is a blaster shield tank though. Although blaster shields tends to be a fairly squishy tank due to PG issues so get any teammate to plasma cannon or toss a couple AV nades to assist your missiles and you can fare alright.

Tanks are rock paper scissor.
Rails can outrange anything can be killed at short range by anything but effective against shield tanks.
Missiles at medium range can slay armor tanks of any variety.
Blasters, short range will destroy any tank, on fast tanks they hurt tank, on slow tanks they run the risk of being kited.


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Princeps Marcellus Expert Intervention Caldari State 26	Posted - 2013.05.23 22:33:00 - [1] - Quote Well, I really never thought of it that way. While certainly it seems much more convenient to be able to take a lot of damage from small arms fire and stick around not giving a ****, shields (from what I've heard at least; I've always been an armor tanker) just don't stand up to serious enemies with serious AV.
Princeps Marcellus Expert Intervention Caldari State 27	Posted - 2013.05.27 10:52:00 - [2] - Quote Villanor Aquarius wrote: When it comes to fighting tanks you all are doing it wrong. Shield fit missile tank will destroy any armor tank if you aren't terrible. Missiles do 129% damage to armor. They are the only turret that does bonus damage to armor. Also shield tanks are more nimble than armor tanks and missiles have a base range of about 250m. Take a missile tank out and stay at distance from a blaster tank and use your decent tracking and higher acceleration to stay at range and pound on his armor. The biggest risk to a shield missile tank is a blaster shield tank though. Although blaster shields tends to be a fairly squishy tank due to PG issues so get any teammate to plasma cannon or toss a couple AV nades to assist your missiles and you can fare alright. Tanks are rock paper scissor. Rails can outrange anything can be killed at short range by anything but effective against shield tanks. Missiles at medium range can slay armor tanks of any variety. Blasters, short range will destroy any tank, on fast tanks they hurt tank, on slow tanks they run the risk of being kited. I wouldn't make it as simple as that. Yes, a good missile tank will destroy my own madrugar, but there's a reason that I've replaced the normal blaster turret setup in favor of all railguns. It's cheaper on the PG. It lets you fit whatever the hell you want to, and in my case, "whatever the hell you want to fit" happens to be three carapace armor hardeners, one 180 mm nanofibre plates module, and a Heavy IG-L Polarized Armor Regenerator. And the low meta level D/C unit. I only have a standard 80 GJ railgun turret, but that is sufficient to deal with almost all tanks. I'd say about... three out of four? Three out of four standard tanks, that is. If you play smart. If you rush on the the field and get ambushed by even one tank, you might be completely frakked up, depending on how you react to the situation. Of course, this is a brawler tank. You're supposed to get in close and frak up the enemy tank with this setup. If you use it to snipe... well, certainly you'll take out installations, but tanks are just going to run into cover and wait to return to full health or simply recall their vehicles.