BF2S Forums The best unlock if you are a tank-whore is:

Doms wrote:

Afrika_18 wrote:

Doms wrote:

Pilum > this thread idea.

Pilum  is not a bad weapon, but IMHO it doesn't warrant the devotion given to it.  I use it a lot, but I find for taking out gunships and the occasional transport, it can't compete with the SAAW.  Also, it sucks at long range.  Easier to use just the stock anti-tank rockets.

Quite frankly, i think the SAAW is a piece of crap, all you can take out is aircraft, and infantry(?)

Imagine a circle in the middle of the screen. You must use the imaginary circle and then point it to an enemy, then click. Oops, Infantry just died from anti-air.(this method is kinda cheap, but helps when your reloading for your smg)

Doms wrote:

Afrika_18 wrote:

Doms wrote:

Pilum > this thread idea.

Pilum  is not a bad weapon, but IMHO it doesn't warrant the devotion given to it.  I use it a lot, but I find for taking out gunships and the occasional transport, it can't compete with the SAAW.  Also, it sucks at long range.  Easier to use just the stock anti-tank rockets.

Quite frankly, i think the SAAW is a piece of crap, all you can take out is aircraft, and infantry(?) so if you are a tank-whore and you don't do anything else (if you are, then your a retard) then sure its a good unlock, but it takes more than 2 shots to take down an aircraft, in fact i never got a single kill with it.

I'll let the 'retard' thing slide, but the point is this: when I'm in a tank, which is most of the time (70% lets say), I use the tank to take out other vehicles (as opposed to jumping out with a pilum or AT rockets).  I can take out a gunship or transport with a tank too and I often do, but with the SAAW, I simply pop out of my tank and 2 shots = dead gunship, and if I'm lucky, = dead transport too.  Very useful for when you miss with the tank and the gunship flys overhead out of your FOV.  Hop out of the tank with the SAAW for the quick kill.  I don't know if you can take out infantry effectively with the SAAW.  Never tried it.

So, the main reason I think the SAAW is an ideal unlock for an armor whore is essentially that it accomplishes something extra that isn't as easily accomplished with just your tank.  That is: it takes out air threats efficiently (and you don't need AT rockets or a pilum because your in a tank and the tank is your gun).

Fenix14 wrote:

my pilum is my anti air

good luck taking down my gunship with your pilum.

travisb05 wrote:

What i do is take the pilum and go behind a vehicle like a tank and shoot the vent one shot kill every time even on tanks with full health it is awesome.

Its awesome sure, but not exclusive to the pilum.  1 shot from AT rockets to the rear of a tank takes it out to, even at full health.  The bonus of the pilum is that the tank's warning beeper doesn't go off.

zeidmaan wrote:

Its not just that there is no warning tone, the pilum "bullets" are also much more faster, it reloads around 2 seconds faster, the draw time is lower, its easyer to use "unscoped", and with effects on LOW it can hardly be seen. The rockets on the other hand can be seen from a mile away.

But I would trade 10 pilums for one SRAW/Eryx from Project Reality

yes, true.  But the rockets will track at range while the pilum will not.  The pilum is arguably better at short range, but then a tank is too (we're talking about taking out gunships and transports remember), and the whole point of this thread is that you are driving a tank.  With the SAAW, when the gunship dissapears from your FOV in the tank, you hop out and fire twice with the SAAW and 70% of the time (if not 100% of the time) the gunship/transport is toast.  Also you can hop back in your tank and deal with immediate threats if any, confident that the SAAW rockets will track and destroy the target.  I love it when I get back in my tank and 20 seconds later I get the kill message!  I'm not saying the pilum is inferior.  I'm saying that if your going to be in a tank 99% of the time, the SAAW is an ideal supplement.

I'll have to try Project Reality, hearing lots of good things about it.