@boz
Zander: Might want to start at that as a base. The shields are meant to take repeated hits from anti-tank weapons after all. But speaking of the shields, there’s a couple of ways to do that, one is just to strap some units on which is a hell of a lot quicker but a lot less effective and flexible. Or we could poke around inside the metaphorical guts of the tank and rewire it to properly use the shields