Of the TAY crew I am the resident Tank player. Bags is really good as tank as well, but he flats around to different classes periodically. I Welcome a new Tank player. WELCOME TO THE LEAST PLAYED AND MOST UNDER ESTIMATED CLASS!
Tank Sucks against Assault. And he is easy picking for Snipers since he has the second biggest model and head. But Tank has a rail gun and is able to harass snipers from afar. And if you are good you can take them out before they get you. Rail gun is like the tank's secret weapon. It takes off health in chunks and and has no range limit.
So far I have found his role to be area control, harassment, bot push and turret elimination.
I have found there are 3 builds for tank. One is the Hudson build that I use, Shammy's build and then Artic's. The other is "Balls To The Wall" build I made pre patch, so it probably sucks now.
Hudson's
Shammy
Artic