So you're saying that a shield tank that's specifically built to take on armour-fitted vehicles should be reasonably expected to flank and go for the weak points to (just barely) get better than an even-odds chance against a vehicle fitted with an ANTI-INFANTRY weapon?

You're right! That's totally balanced!

This seems to be the order of things

Armour blaster beats shield blaster.

Shield missile beats armour blaster.

Shield rail beats armour blaster.

Shield missile beats armour missile

Armour rail beats everything

There is expeptions to these general rules but they are normaly determind by pilot skill rather than just their tank.

You must be doing somthing wrong every time I meet a madruger with either my missile gunlogi or falconi its been toast . Use the range in the missiles to your advantage missiles far out range blasters. You have 250m optimum range before enforcer skills come into play.

Shield tanking requirws allot of cunning and gurilatactics where armour tanking is more head on .

Caldari tanks are medium to long range support tanks , where as galenti tanks are close range killers . If you use each tank to its suggested role then you will do well . Try to overstrech that role and yoy have to be one good pilot.

As I and yourself have pointed out reps and resist re the key to an armour tanks survival bit as I said I have been 3 shotting madrugers 2 shotts when iv got the drop on them . Allot of tank v tank comes down to pilot skill and awareness. I havent had problems with my builds and lets face it there is allot of weekend tankers out there.

Ehem I never said anything about my squad carrying av norm 1 sniper and 1 gunner at least bit not norm av dont put worda in my mouth to validate your point. If you cant take out srmour tanks with your missiles your doing it wrong plain and simple so take your self righteous smugness and shove it.

No Dev comments here yet.....

It's like they don't care about us vehicle drivers

Shield tanks have less EHP then armor tanks and therefore AV decimates shields much easier then armor.

No time to read the whole thing but just my two cents: Shield may not be GÇ£as good asGÇ¥ armour, but almost all AV weapons are better against armour, the exception being the forge gun (who even uses those?) which I believe only does marginally better damage.

Haven't read ANYTHING except the title.

I actually prefer the Caldari (Shield) Tanks over Gallente (Armor) Tanks.

If you look at the statistics and logic behind it all (Not just base health and turret type...), they're actually pretty pretty balanced. Example? Why, sure.

Shield: Hard to destroy with anything other than a pure AV weapons. Ex: Plasma Cannon, Turrets, Forge Gun. CONS: Once shield is gone, the vehicle is toast. Better bring some Armor Repairs.

Armor: Low Shield, but more eHP. However, it's a bit weak against all other AV weapons. I could break a Soma with a Mass Driver, if I had enough ammo (And I carry hives, so i do have enough Ammo...), so long as Shields are down. I can take out 1/3 of the Armor of the Soma with just one AV Grenade. It's just weaker against that stuff.

So yea. Balanced, although it seems otherwise. I just like to bring a Caldari Tank into the match because the shield is so hard to destroy, it gives me a chance to run before I get destroyed.

Read any of the many many posts explaining how wrong you are, then kindly leave.

Well, I don't really get into all the crazy stuff. I focus on mechanics. I'm sorry. :(

I was thinking about weakness/strength. Honestly, I can't fit a vehicle for ****, but I use Armor Repairs on my Sica, and I rarely lose those. Congratz though, not a lot of people correct me. :D

much, much, much more

Whatever chaps, I'm sure with the excellent attitudes displayed in this thread you're sure to get a positive response...

For those saying armour reps are 3x as strong as shield, I honestly don't understand what you're talking about. The hp repaired by armour reps is 3x that of a shield booster, but armour reps have a pulse interval of 3.0 secs, where shield boosters have a pulse of 1.0 secs. Am I missing something?

As for armour tanks being faster than shield tanks, wtf are you smoking?

There are drawbacks and strengths to each, and as a killer (and occasional driver) of tanks, I see no problems. You may get wtfpwned by flux grenades, but let's be honest; how many people carry those over AV grenades and swarms?

That's not quite accurate; we'd have to test it with the Vayu against the Gunnlogi to get a proper spread of data.

I would just like to point out, while I agree that shield tanks need a buff, that there might be more individual weapon types that deal more damage to shields, but one is far more likely to encounter those that deal bonus damage to armour, simply because of a: AV grenades don't take up a weapon slot b: swarms fit on medium suits and c: plasma cannons are gimped.