Alright Void, I just met you on the wrong side of a skirmish on manus peak, you were rail sniping. WTH kinda fit are you using on that maddy? It was ridiculously heavy hitting with 7k armor.

Now as a tanker and especially a shield tanker you have to know your priority targets , for me it is as follows from threat level highest to lowest of my top 10 threats on the battle field

1 any tank

2 forge gunner

3 rail turret

4 swarm launcher

5 plasma canon operative

6 blaster turret

7 av nader

8 bumper car (they can ram your tank to death)

9 proxy mines

10 Normal infantry

Follow the 3 DGÇÖs and youll do well in your tanking venture

Demoralise, distract and destroy, this is your job this is your goal itGÇÖs not always about getting the kills but you are the biggest and meanest machine on the field if you force even 1 whole squad to come after and chase you all game then thatGÇÖs 1 whole squad your foot troops donGÇÖt have to bother about.

hm.. wow you put plasma cannon really high, most miss and they are easy to avoid, i would put it at the bottom. and switch the forge with SL(proto) because they are much harder to avoid and dodge with similar damage and are homing and can follow around corners and usually invisible with wrong hit markers.

"god mode" would be if you continually hit him yet he doesn't need to activate anything.

There is no way your maddy could withstand 11 vollys from a fully maxed falchion in succession . The only way you would survive that is if the opposing pilot missed every 2nd volly and your repswwere on . Infact no blody way did you take 11 hits in quick succesion your talking over 24000 hp if its fully maxed and has a dammge mod not to mention 120% efficiency against armour.

2 armor reppers 2 armor hardeners plus the 10% skill and a DCU it is possible to tank all that damage from a fully spec falchion with 3 damage mods and proto missiles because that drops the damage to around 14500 and the two repairers would repair 13000~ when skilled into. so yes totally possible to do, the falchion would only barely beat the repairers in damage that way.

Just a friendly bump to belp the aspiring tankers.

Any madruger that takes 4-5 vollys from the build I mentiond is what I call a god mode tank as they obviously have good reps and resists. Iv even had one take 6 vollys but I couldent confirm if all were direct hits . Probably not unless all hardners and reppers were acctive. I have had allot more fun hunting armour tanks in my gunlogi as you really feel the risk and really need to be on ball. When im using the madruger it feels a bit too easy to be honest.

that depends on whether or not the swarms were advanced, proto or just standard tier

If I was to go into tanks with the goal of providing support for infantry in an urban environment, what would be best? I remember being in a gunnlogi that was equipped with missiles that seemed to do pretty well against infantry. I'd like it to be Caldari for RP but I don't mind going Gallente if that's what's best.

Also, how are enforcers so much easier to kill than regular tanks? I've never driven either, but just looking at the numbers they seem to have a negligible difference in shield/armor and cpu/pg, along side an extra high/low slot. Is there something I'm missing as a newbie to tanks? Or is this no longer the case?

Is there a point in making a hybrid shield/armor tanked tank?

Have a look at the basic fits I posted in this thread for gunlogi fits. If you are really intarested in shield tanking drop me a message in game and ill see if I can help you out. Im allways happy to help a fellow shield tsnker as we are a dying breed.