Oh shut up. Stay off the front lines scrub. You hit harder.

If you're not hitting harder find the damage mods.

The power grid is only too low when you try to fit proto or the high pg advanced rail.

vehicle shield energizer module, wih it i would battle with armor tanks.

That's odd, because I didn't have a problem fitting a standard blastet

Half of the people whine because their tanks get blown up so fast, the others whine about invincible tanks. I guess this means it's perfectly balanced.

tanks are only there for noobs to be impressed by.

there is no way currently to balance the tanks, and you don't make enough per match to pay for one. math is fun.

Caldari design leans heavily on missiles and long range railguns. Try equipping a missile turret on your tank, see what happens. All your powergrid issues suddenly disappear. I fly a Python and consistently note that missile shield tanks are harder to kill than railgun/blaster shield tanks. Now your problem is that large missile turrets are a little underpowered. Also, it'd be nice if accelerated missiles went as far as large turret installations can shoot them (aka forever).

shield tanks have passive recharge something armor don't get at all.

I once encountered a very skilled Madrugar pilot while I was in my Falchion. I positioned myself at the bottom of a very small incline and he came thundering out from above. Since I could aim upwards and hit him while he couldn't aim down with his blaster to hit me, I pulled off a couple salvos of proto accelerated missiles before he started shooting at me.

I get him down to very low armor, such that I would need only one more full salvo to hit and he was dead, and I was at roughly 1/2 shields. But the inevitable happened and only two of my missiles hit on the next salvo. His god-mode repper brought him back to life from near death and I started moving in the bumpy terrain so that I could get below his maximum angle of depression.

Lucky for me, I managed to get below his maximum turret depression angle which saved me about a second. I shoot 2 or 3 more salvos into him and he finally gets destroyed, and I am left with maybe 1/5 shields. My adrenaline was running throughout the entire battle.

There are a couple of things that I would like to point out that should not be happening. First, I was in an extremely close ranged engagement where only the terrain helped me win, otherwise I would've lost. I had already previously encountered him at range, but it only gave my position away and the difficulties with hitting a target at range prevented me from placing accurate hits. I was already burning in reverse and he figured that if he came charging at me he would've lost, so he pulled back and escaped with some scratches.

Second, it should not take a Falchion and local terrain to barely beat a Madrugar. I would rather it be a Gunnlogi and local terrain to barely beat a Madrugar at close range and a Gunnlogi to easily destroy a Madrugar at range without allowing the Madrugar time to escape. Without any terrain advantageous to the Gunnlogi pilot, a Madrugar should defeat the Gunnlogi at close range.