Which empire has the best vehicles?

[321]

Which empire do you think has the best empire-only vehicles?

[NightWalker XI]

NC, Enforcer and Vanguard > all

[Incompetent]

The NC, while the Barneys have the ubercheap lawnmower, the NC get the Vanguard, which is an extremely powerful vehicle that can easily crush most anything it's 150mm cannon can hit, and it's got alot of armor. However it pays for it because it is very big and not very maneuverable. The Enforcer is the opposite, it has good speed and maneuverabilty, at the cost of armor, although it is still very tough, and it trades out the splash and a tiny bit of damage to be directfire and for an improved rate of fire.

The Barney magrider is just a floating brick and can kill alot of people before going down, but isn't all that powerful against other vehicles and can be defeated by minefields, at least temporarily. The Thresher is decent transport but not a fighting vehicle, although it can make a decent brick when it has too.

The TR get shafted for vehicles, the Prowler takes an extra person to be negligibly more effective in the vehicle hunting role as the Vanguard, and noticably less effective against infantry. The Marauder is a decent vehicle, but it still takes a third person for the same effectiveness as the Enforcer, and it takes a more experienced crew to utilize it properly.

[Knuckles]

I answered NC

NC has Vanguard (biggest gun in the game, h-u-g-e splash damage) and the Enforcer, with it�s rocket launcher (that packs one helluva punch).

TR has the Prowler and the Marauder. While the Prowler is a force to be reckoned, it�s the tank that I fear the least. Big, easily spotted and often it doesn�t even come with a full crew (3). Nah� The Marauder though, is something to be feared (as a grunt). That grenade launcher is damn nasty.

VS has the Magrider and the Thresher. The Mag is one of my absolute favourites in the game (yes � I have a toon that�s specialised in driving one) and I fear NOTHING when I have a good gunner with me. Having a well known gunner, over voice comm (for easy and fast communication), and You go on killing sprees that can last for hours. (The only time You�ll see me in mag, without a gunner, is when I am on my way to pick up one. I�d say that a gunnerless mag is about one third as powerful as one with a full crew.)

...but isn't all that powerful against other vehicles

Boy, oh boy, do I disagree! That main cannon fires fast and straight as piss. Before the Vanu AA MAX got upgraded, the Mag was our best AA system.

can be defeated by minefields

Well� This goes for all vehicles, regardless of faction, doesn�t it?

The thresher is a wonderful vehicle too. It handles like a dream. Fast. Nimble. You can do stunts with it that You won�t believe. I was gunning for a guy that drove up in trees, on top of towers, on the walls and bridges of bases (You name it). Just one amazing piece of machinery. The threshers problem is its gun. It sucks� HARD! If the thresher had a gun as good as the one on the Enforcer, I�d place VS right up there with NC, but as it now stands I see no reason for a VS to cert in their buggy.

[Incompetent]

Boy, oh boy, do I disagree! That main cannon fires fast and straight as piss.

Which would matter if someone actually used it, and even if someone does, it's still inferior to a vanguard or a (half crewed) prowler in a straight fight.

Well� This goes for all vehicles, regardless of faction, doesn�t it?

True, but it's most effective against Magriders, 90% of the time Lawnmowers just try to squish you, which means you can just back up into a minefield near a base, on a road, wherever and your good to go, try that with a Vanguard and you got a 150mm suprise.

[NightWalker XI]

The thing is and like Inconpetent said, the Magrider driver hardly seem to use the cannon, its just squish, squish and you can easily dodge this anyway if there is a tree, but the worst thing this does is I notice when they do use the tank cannon on vehicle VS vehicle they don't do so well as to people who do use it often

[Knuckles]

Which would matter if someone actually used it, and even if someone does, it's still inferior to a vanguard or a (half crewed) prowler in a straight fight.

Ok, lets agree on that we disagree. I know how (damn) good the main cannon is against vehicles. True, it does less damage than the Prowlers main gun and the Vanguards, but it has higher ROF, and is near insta hit. I.e.: You WILL hit the thing You are pointing Your reticule at. I�d say it�s purely made for AV purposes, since it sucks against infantry. It takes 2 direct hits to kill a reinforced with the main cannon, for example. (Measly splash damage too.)

I�ve given it some thought, and I think that me and my main gunner has an all over 2/3-ratio against other tanks, and 4/5 against reavers (for example). What usually gets me are the infils, when I have to stop for repairs.

True, but it's most effective against Magriders, 90% of the time Lawnmowers just try to squish you, which means you can just back up into a minefield near a base, on a road, wherever and your good to go, try that with a Vanguard and you got a 150mm suprise.

Ok � You got me on this one. Mine fields really do work against Mags, as You described it, since we use them more as a �squirmish� kind of vehicle. (Read: We zoom in and squish You, then zoom out again.) The reason that we do try to run people over is that the AI gun, the drivers gun, is so hard to control. The Mag nearly always swivel either left or right. You have to be absolutely still to get any kind of precision� and You never wanna be absolutely still in a tank, since the AV weapons in PS are so powerful.

[STEALTHKILLER]

this is my reaoning. the vs have the best tank. it is able 2 run people over alot of people becuse of the hoverjets and the main railbeam is good for raming over vechicals.
the nc have the best assult buggy. it has a lot of armor (1200 ) and the gun on the back does some nice damage. the only way it culd be better is 2 but the trunk near the hood and have a second gunner with a chain gun threre

[321]

I'm the only one that things the TR have the best vehicles. Well I think that cause of the Maraduer (or however you spell it) cause they rock. And for the best tank I guess I'll say vanguard cause it is really strong but the Magrider is also good cause the driver can use the gun on it unlike the vanguard and the prowler.

[Flammey]

Which Empire has the best vehicles?

None of them do.

Every empire has a good vehicle, either the tank or the buggy, and the other vehicle is shyte. Vanu's buggy is shit, unless used a a squish job, but the Mag is good, undercrewed or fully crewed. Tr's Buggy rocks anything, undercrewed, or fully crewed, but not as agile as anything of Vanu's. The Prowler is only good fully crewed, and fully armed. Otherwise it's a missle and AV magnet. NC's Buggy I never see. I only see Vanguards. Vanguard is meant to be front line assault. And it shows that it can live up to that expectation. So, who has the best vehicles? No one. Vanu is all about manuverability, and it shows that. TR is all about the bullet, or maybe it's all about the Benjamins, *Shurgs* and the NC is all about power and being able to take the hits. ANY VEHICLE in with the right crew will decimate any area. it doesn't matter the vehicle. ESPECIALLY if it has the right backup, and partnership with the right vehicles. Three fully crewed Mags are a nasty surprise to Infantry and carrier vehicles like the Sunderer. A fully crewed Prowler with a Reaver pilot flying air control will be a hard fought battle to take out. You don't believe me? Try it sometime.