Talk:Boa/@comment-27174646-20151107211954

If you're thinking about a Boa, think again: When I first got this game I came on here looking for advice on which robot to buy with the meagre silver one has starting out, reading the descrption above and the comments below I bought the Boa - unequivically a waste of time. In the starting tiers the Boa is (soooo) slow and with two weapon hardpoints you are outgunned by all the other medium robots (it doesn't matter if one is heavy and one is medium, try going up against a Patton w/ 4 punishers or a Vityaz reigning Spirals down on you/peppering you with guns, dodging between covering and firing while matching your KWK or Thunder shot for shot, the light/medium/heavy hardpoint distinction is NOT literally translatable into damage dealt as much as it is a way for the devs to prevent overpowered combinations or encouraging you to spend gold to get the ones you want). At the medium tier a Boa is extemely rare because it suffers even more from the same problems outlined above - you're up against upgraded mediums and heavys like the Griffin that will shred you with two if not four times as many weapons being brought to bear  (depending on combat distance)  . I haven't made it to the upper tiers yet but I would expect the same things to be true - even with the increasd speed you will just be running straight into duelling battles with bots that have more firepower or better manuverability with better firepower.

The final measure: in WWR tanking is not a winning tactic because other robots can deal such a higher quantity of damage that your extra HP is negated, especially in cases where they fire first or before you can close the distance or if you've been softed up with potshots which is very common in open maps. Since the Boa is outgunned in every possible combat scenario the only person who will be getting kills is the person who spots you.