I had a match of Breakthrough on Cairo where we won and I was dominating as the IFV because I was playing cautious. By this I mean I was near the front lines but still behind my infantry providing support covering fire while giving the entire team a place to spawn so they can still be close to the action and not have to call an uber to get back.
On the final objective I had to fall back a little more than usual due to lack of ammo and the enemy team had adjusted to counter me, example being they had 8 engineers waiting for me to round the corner. Despite this I start getting yelled at in team chat to push forward and I explained that I will not sacrifice a tank for nothing because they believe the IFV can just take 8-9 RPGs from all sides and shrug it off. Once I did get ammo from an engineer crate I then cleared as much as I could with the main cannon and flew onto the point popping thermal blocking smoke and threat detector radar for my gunner. We won and everyone pats themselves on the back while blaming me for how long it took. Btw I was 5th on the scoreboard but apparently that means nothing.
Listen..tanks are NOT rolling fortresses that can just crawl right into enemy lines and not care. 2 RPGs to the back will blow it. 2 mines will blow it. A god damn engineer on crack with a torch can drop a tank in 4s. Tanks are support vehicles that can create an opening for infantry to push but not if they get surrounded. Even when the vehicle changes are released it gives us like..1 extra shot before the tank blows up.
I understand that tanks that hang out on hilltops at their HQ provide horrible support and have caused most players to detest tank drivers that show any caution, but look at the stats of the two. Hilltop tanks have the longest tank life but lowest KD. Cautious tank drivers have a high KD and a high tank life and high assists. Possibly a high win ratio as well.
Granted the people that think tanks flying onto the point like it's an 80's action movie is the way to go don't normally get on reddit, but after that match I felt like I needed to vent a little.