genius_man16 wrote:
Personally i think that it should be someone who goes to flags and gives cover while the infantry cap it, and isn't hesitant to take on other tanks or vehicles. I think that the Karkand spawn rapers are pussy's who should all burn in a flaming hole... but that's just me
Yup,I really miss the awesomely skilled tank-drivers of BF1942,guys who always take engineer and could totally dominate a spawn point.When such guy in a Tiger rolled up in BF1942 you really got kinda scared like the Russians who encountered it in real life,ok,maybe not that scared,but you knew you were pretty much helpless.
Karkand spawn rapers are just pussies who look for easy kills,they are not the true tanker,easy to recognize on the missing wrench icon above the tank.Unfortunately these are mostly the guys with the highest k/d-ratio,because they are picking on helpless(medics,support,sniper)and sometimes even unaware enemies(spawnraping,the spawn-and-die effect).That's why the k/d-ratio doesn't mean sh*t,it doesn't tell anything about playing style or what extremely dumb noobs your victims were.
Real tankers are people who look for enemy tanks as their main target,have great experience in maneuvering the tank,use "Blitzkrieg"-tactics like the Wehrmacht(mobility!!!) to cut off important flags(Train Accident in Karkand for example,if the flag is taken at the start of the round by a quickly advancing tank and apc the MEC have a big problem!) and take and hold ground until the infantry takes the flag.
The perfect tanker should love Operation Smoke Screen or Songhua Stalemate and definitely team up with other engineers to repair each others tank,this way the repair points keep coming all the time and the tanks become virtually indestructable.
On Smoke Screen there are sometimes convoys of tanks and in every one is an engineer,an indestructable snake of steel which unstoppably comes your way.
Unless you are anti-tank,spec ops,engineer or in a tank yourself there's not much you can do to defend a flag against this force.
So basically I don't judge people by their stats,if I see them in action and they rock the house in a tank I'll definitely remember the player's name,but I'm not digging through someone's stats to find out who accumulated the most kills via spawnraping.