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Karazantor
Mannar Focused Warfare
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Posted - 2013.07.28 03:08:00 -
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There is definitely some decent tanks getting around.
Was in a match yesterday when 2 tanks came out. 3 milita swarm launchers couldn't take out even one of them before they were in cover. This was over basically the last three quarters of the match.
Sure they take lots of SP to get there, but what doesn't.
I have a tanker alt and after a bit of trying, can honestly say I suck. But to make them stronger would risk the good days of Beta when they completely ruled the battlefield (with the help of broken rocket launchers). |
Karazantor
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.28 03:55:00 -
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Charlotte O'Dell wrote:wait...so you're counting newberry scrubs who dont have free lavs anymore as tankers? omg. no. there are no tankers left. no good ones anyhow. notice how all of them are solo'd by a good aver?
In the real world, unsupported armoured vehicles are never solo'd by anti-vehicle weapons. I can't belive the game would be so unbalanced that this would be possible - just another of CCP's failing i'm afraid. |
Karazantor
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.28 04:24:00 -
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DeadlyAztec11 wrote:Karazantor wrote:Charlotte O'Dell wrote:wait...so you're counting newberry scrubs who dont have free lavs anymore as tankers? omg. no. there are no tankers left. no good ones anyhow. notice how all of them are solo'd by a good aver? In the real world, unsupported armoured vehicles are never solo'd by anti-vehicle weapons. I can't belive the game would be so unbalanced that this would be possible - just another of CCP's failing i'm afraid. That makes no sense. So you say that vehicles that are supported by infantry are able to be destroyed by a single person? I believe you have mixed yourself up. That said, armored vehicles have frequently been disabled and even destroyed by a single person. As recent as the Iraqi war, an Abrams Tank, complete with reactive armor, was disabled by a tandem warhead fired from an RPG. A single AV personnel. One round.
I was being sarcastic again. I'm not trying to be offensive, but i'm guessing you are an American (US), though written sarcasm can be difficult to detect at times.
There are numerous examples from every war in history (since WW1) where multiple tanks (mainline MBT's too) have been destroyed by one person using rockets/missiles/mines/sticky bombs of some sort, despite heavy defenses, both air and ground.
The spectacle of WWII King Tigers being near indestructible to even enemy tanks except at point blank is an oddity that has never been repeated (and even then they had a few weaknesses, mostly design faults such as rubbish engine/transmissions, that led to their downfall). |
Karazantor
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.28 04:27:00 -
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Knightshade Belladonna wrote:Karazantor wrote:Charlotte O'Dell wrote:wait...so you're counting newberry scrubs who dont have free lavs anymore as tankers? omg. no. there are no tankers left. no good ones anyhow. notice how all of them are solo'd by a good aver? In the real world, unsupported armoured vehicles are never solo'd by anti-vehicle weapons. I can't belive the game would be so unbalanced that this would be possible - just another of CCP's failing i'm afraid. I bet there is some old veterans who would beg to differ. A few have given their life to taking a tank out solo, one has even earned a medal of honor... Now I don't know about these days for tanks,.. but A navy Seal team did get killed with just a single rocket ( not a tank, but you get my point I hope )
Please read my above comment. |
Karazantor
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.28 04:34:00 -
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Charlotte O'Dell wrote:DeadlyAztec11 wrote:Karazantor wrote:Charlotte O'Dell wrote:wait...so you're counting newberry scrubs who dont have free lavs anymore as tankers? omg. no. there are no tankers left. no good ones anyhow. notice how all of them are solo'd by a good aver? In the real world, unsupported armoured vehicles are never solo'd by anti-vehicle weapons. I can't belive the game would be so unbalanced that this would be possible - just another of CCP's failing i'm afraid. That makes no sense. So you say that vehicles that are supported by infantry are able to be destroyed by a single person? I believe you have mixed yourself up. That said, armored vehicles have frequently been disabled and even destroyed by a single person. As recent as the Iraqi war, an Abrams Tank, complete with reactive armor, was disabled by a tandem warhead fired from an RPG. A single AV personnel. One round. okay...disabled does not mean destroyed. more than likely, it destroyed a tread and was a mobility kill, but short of a 500lbd explosive under the tank, nothing can kill it that isn't dropped from the sky. no abrams crewman has ever been killed in their tank. so yeah, the tanks we have now are like Shermans. Advanced should be m60s, and protos should be abrams. an rpg cannot kill an abrams. it has never happened and never will.
There are advanced versions of RPG's that can actually penetrate the armour, i'm not sure if they were available to Iraq, possibly not. Fortunately they mostly had variations of the Vietnam era RPG-7s.
Not exactly a 'first world' type of war.
No doubting most modern western MBT's are tough though. Thinking they are invincible however, could be a fatal mistake for their crews.
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