That may just be it, other than holding a doorway in Ambush, I think I mostly did roving fire support. I was pleasantly surprised with my K/D, though I don't tend to worry about that usually. I think I only went negative one match, it was 3K/12A/5D if I recall correctly.

I personally avoid Ambush matches and stick to Skirmish and Domination. I perform better there.

Yeah, on all my alts I only do ambush if grinding ISK and SP doesn't matter. I can really see just how important it is for a Heavy to have a specific objective to attack or defend, even in the Ambush if it weren't for that building we would have been hosed.

I just put a militia repper on my Frontline, ironically, I then chase Heavies around. :)

Audacious Mandate, once you have basic plate/repair I would definitely recommend maxing out your Armour and Shield skills to increase your base Armour and Shield stats. That will probably benefit you more than upgrading your weapon at this stage. Besides, you can save up some ISK while you are running cheap gear.

Anyone who has not already done so should watch this video, from this thread. It went completely against what I thought was happening, but once I saw the truth, and used that knowledge in battle, I became a lot more effective with the HMG. No longer can an Assault with an Assault Rifle expect to beat me in a 1 vs 1 unless they are strafing like crazy.

So, I now have Plates, Reppers and Damage Mods at level 3, I had to put 1 level into Electronics to get a couple fittings to work though. That being the case I'm at a loss as to my next investment, not enough CPU for advanced weapons too. So should I invest in Electronics for more CPU, or will investing a few more levels in Heavy Weapons reduce CPU requirements enough to fit Adv. weapons (as well as allowing me access to FGs, which I want anyway). Or, should I bypass both and go for Adv. Heavy Suits. I'm going to level up Armor and Shield core skills until I figure it out, thoughts or suggestions?

Be careful fitting multiple damage mods; every mod after the first has a stacking penalty. So two Enhanced is inferior to a single Complex.

True, but it should come out to around 9%, uses modules I'm currently skilled into and gets me into a suit with more CPU/PG. I do believe in leveling up modules before the suit, so I'll probably stay in Adv suits until I'm proto with everything else (with the possible exception of the HMG). I'll think on it awhile anyway as I only have 60,000 SP right now.

I believe the number is 8.5%, which is still a nice enough boost, although it will take up an awful lot of CPU.

If you have that much SP, it might be worth just sitting on it for now until you have more. No point spending it on something just because you can, and end up waiting longer for something important. I know I've made that mistake before.

With my usual fit, 1 Enhanced Plate, 1 Enhanced Repper, I still need to put Electronics to Level 2 to fit the Complex Damage mod. Even at that, it fits exactly, couldn't use it with my 2 Repper fit.
This is a real toughie. Just to compare: it would take 578,290 SP for the Electronics and Damage mods, with that my standard HMG would do exactly the same DPS as the Proto HMG. It would take 609,400 SP to max my HMG. It would cost about 7,000 ISK for the mod and weapon together vs 47,000 for the Proto HMG. But it would only take 124,360 to get my suit to Adv, where I could fit 2 Enhanced Damage mods which I've already skilled into...I think you see which way I'm leaning here. Thanks for the help though, really, if you guys didn't make these specific suggestions, I wouldn't crunch numbers well enough.

Crunch the numbers to decide whether going advanced over basic on your plate is better than going with a Proto damage mod. As I understand it the increase from Basic to Advanced on plate is not as dramatic as with some other modules.

I went proto with my Kinetic Catalyser and my Damage mod first, while still using a Basic armour repair, and was able to fit it on the Standard Sentinel without any Engineering or Electronics skills. But that was before the health buff of 1.5, so the repair might be higher priority now. I assume that the Kinetic Catalyser has a different PG and CPU profile than the Plates, so I am not sure if my numbers will work for you. But I would try it with an Enhanced Repair, Basic plate and a Proto Damage mod, and see if it will fit.

Skilling to the Advanced suit is very tempting, and I would do it myself if I was sure I was going to stick with the Amarr Heavy suit, but with it's bonus to feedback damage (Laser) and my love for the HMG, I suspect I will be going with one of the other racial suits when they come out. (1.8?)

That makes sense. Most of my fitting problems started when I upgraded to an Advanced Repper, but now I really want to find a way to fit a Propo Repper. It sure gets tiresome cowering in a corner waiting to get some health back.

That's an understatement.

Yeah, if no one in squad has even a basic repair tool I run 2 Enhanced reppers, it's still woefully inadequate.