IMO this is all just blown out of proportion.
I think @ Zeuse and I showed this perfectly today.
7v7 blackwater with a medic vs 2 deps, 2 PO’s a sgt and an Lt.
We pulled 0 armour and no lethals were auth’d. You guys (aegis) were not being aids with the loadouts or numbers and all in all a good fight was had, with the APD defusing at, I believe 7 minutes.
Unfortunately, when civs pull crazy gear there just isn’t anything the APD have to counter it. We have tried armour vs no armour, when civs have crazy gear it’s just pointless, either get ripped in a shitty hunter by any gun or RPG’d, on the other hand you can try slamming in hatchbacks and will get ripped 99% of the time. - even if you manage a lethal it doesn’t matter in the slightest due to most having medic’s. BW’s back in the day never had people using this sort of gear consistently and it forces us to go to our “last resort” (lethals + hunters) instantly AND STILL MAKING LITTLE PROGRESS.
I have played on both sides, as SAPD and Aegis. I would much rather do a federal event with a normal loadout with a senior not being aids (as they should) vs a zafir rpg t5 event brainlessly ripping hunters and dealing with the aids. I would like to see both sides just take a step back, and fight these events in good spirits without having each group just completely cancer the other to the point that neither has a good time.