Tank Galore

[Dark Reign]

Many of my friends love the tanks we love to shoot, we love to run over, we love just about everything. But which is the best, me being in the New Conglomerate says the Vanguard but in base raids we get our asses kicked, so a poll out to the people which tank do you guys think is the best to use in a full assault base raid or an all out war???

[sniper4evr26]

hehe i think you got a little mixed up. the magmower is not weighty it is the lightest of the assault tanks, but of course the lightning is lighter. the vanguard isnt all that well balanced, huge firepower with lots of armor it is very slow and yet devastating. the tr tank is the most well balanced as it has two gunners with a medium speed and decent armor.

[ZionsFire]

look at the vehicle descriptions it says vanguard a well bealanced all around tanl

[00AgentDuck]

Magmower is my favorite. It can crush maxs and infuntry with little effort. Also the guns are an added bonus for when you can't reach a target, your stuck, or for blowing up some vechicles. It's especially good when you have the driver gunning along with the gunner, can take out vechcils and other tanks like a charm. Toke out a vanguard today doing that. The best artillery type tank though I think is the vanguard. Those missles or whatever they are can really pack a punch, I gotta hack me a vanguard someday.

[Streamline]

Yeah i <3 to toke Vanguards...

[Cyber]

I can't believe more people voted for the Prowler then the Lightning.

Sheesh, people the TR Main Battle tank is the lightning!

It's vastly more effective.

[Zenny]

I voted for all because I could... ummm really uhh Vanguard because of it's monstrosity.

[Arthell]

Vanguard and Prowler both have the same armor, and both are the same speed (65 kph) while the Magrider is 60 kph.

I beleive the Vanguard has the strongest gun (from personal experience as a Prowler gunner/driver) while the Mags is the weakest. (It doesnt suffer from the arch, though, does it?)

Outfit was talking about it tonight, will have to see where the statistics were they were talking about.

My opinion though, the Magrider is the best. It doesnt get stuck in those bridge battles, and it can mow people down much, much easier than any of the other tanks. Hence Magmower.

[Sputty]

Whoever voted for Prowler deserves a kick to the head.

[Azenn]

I think the magrider is the best for any situation... running people over on the ground, shooting people on the walls, taking out reavers (lol)... the only thing is the light armor is a disadvantage when you can't strafe as much in bases

[Arakiel]

Magrider is a great newbie tank. An experienced crew (me and Sydarm mag crew a lot, I drive and he guns) suffers because it's a weak tank in many ways. The armor is terrible and the gun does pitiful damage - it has no arc but that's only really an advantage for reavers. A decent gunner will use an arced cannon as well as a straight-fire cannon. Yeah, it's nice for running stuff over but that's more annoying than effective.

Personally, I like the Vanguard. I think the three tanks are fairly balanced, though.

[Bismarck]

The prowler is best IMO because....

1. It can carry 3 people, not 2.

2. It has the most armor of all the tanks (yes more than the vanguard you stupid NC noobs)

3. Even with the armor its still realitivly fast.

[Happy lil Elf]

Did they change Tank armor at some point? Last time someone actually tested it all three tanks took exactly the same number of shots from 3 or 4 weapons. I forget which but I believe one was a rocklet which wouls show a large difference in armor. Actually I think it'd be cool if someone would test it with AP Assault Rifle rounds. Then any difference in armor should definately show up.


P.S. Sputty, the same could be said for anyone who thinks the prowler flat out sucks ass.

[Nixon]

The Magrider s a great anti-infantry tank in that it's rather easy to run over ground targets and the accurate rail gun fires straight rather then on an arc, making for precision shots against enemies far away or in the air. Still, against other tanks it tends to be weak in terms of firepower and armor.

The Vanguard is an excellent behemoth, capable of ripping through armor and chewing up infantry in a single blast. Though it's a heavy-hitter, it can be bested by the other two tanks in a one-on-one.

The Prowler is very crew-intensive, and the top-mounted chain guns are useless unless the tank is at rest or moving really slow. At that point, they're effective against close-up infantry and air targets. The dual main guns lack as big of a punch, but fire slightly quicker. Unlike the other tanks, the Prowler has a large profile that's easy to hit. If fully crewed, it makes for nice hit and runs.

The Lightning has crappy armor, but the 75mm cannon makes it a nice artillery piece on the battlefield, good for taking out base emplacements before pushing in. Up close, it tends to be nice against light armor and infantry, but it'd be a good idea to run the second you hear an AV weapon fired.

Which one is the best? All of them... they can all be used effectively if you take advantage of their strengths. They're balanced enough so that there's enough complaints from all sides on "how much better" the other empires' tanks are.

This has been discussed THOUSANDS of times, all tanks have the SAME ammount of armor, don't go and read that outdated Prima crappola, it's not true. We TR have the gimped tank, we are the Forest Gumps of the PS tanks, our main tank IS the lightning like Cyber said. The Vanguard by far is the best simply because you can fit 5 in a squad, the main gun owns everything in sight, and it just plain looks good.