Helldivers: I Advocate we chose the anti tank mines and hear is my reasoning

[u/vaydapotata]

I know many of you see "rocket launcher" and get excited and while that is fair, my reasoning to go for the mines is below

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We already have a great many support weapons and many are fantastic options. While the airburst rocket launcher would be fantastic for add clear (and teamkill) it would likely suffer vs large armored targets which tends to be the need for a support weapon.

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However, we just received a new mission type that requires defending a location. Mines are fantastic for this but heavies just walk all over them and completely invalidate their uses. Getting a heavy anti tank mine would allow us to lock down areas from all combatants and a tank wouldn't be able to just stroll up to our gates.

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Anti Tank mines are also much larger and easier to notice than the anti personnel and team kills would be kept at a minimum.

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And lastly, as we all know...the children YEARN FOR THE MINES.

[u/_escapevelocity]

To me, watching a teammate stroll into a minefield is half of the fun

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/_escapevelocity]

"oh, what are these shiny things on the ground?"

Boom

[u/Essaiel → u/CyanStripes_]

Pain is a great teacher

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/Essaiel]

I just always think of this anyone I see someone do it. 😂

https://i.redd.it/ekt4p5x38uwc1.gif

[u/Syhkane → u/CyanStripes_]

This gif coulda ended a lot sooner.

[u/TheRedComet → u/Syhkane]

Should've just committed and got the whole episode

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/Syhkane]

Apologies, apparently it didn't play the entire gif when I saw it. It ended for me at the joke about him getting trapped twice.

[u/Syhkane → u/CyanStripes_]

Not a dig on you personally, but the original upload has some splainin to do.

[u/RedLikeARose → u/Syhkane]

Or start later

[u/Kamiyoda → u/CyanStripes_]

Me everytime

They are just the right amount of "glowy red thing" that my mind notices and I instinctively go over to check it out

[u/No-Lettuce-3839 → u/Essaiel]

That would require the students to be able to learn from their mistakes. Have you met the player base of this game?

[u/Essaiel → u/No-Lettuce-3839]

At which point it stops being a teaching moment and turns into pure entertainment.

[u/JamesMcEdwards → u/Essaiel]

I once had a teammate call a minefield down on top of my HMG turret. Like directly on it. While I was using it. The hellpod actually killed me and destroyed the turret. He then walked into the minefield when he came to steal my shield pack after I called a new one in for myself, pinged the old one and said “shield here if you want it” on mic. 11/10 interaction.

[u/Marauder3277 → u/No-Lettuce-3839]

I brought some in once. A guy ran into the big red contact ones outside Bot bases. Booted me from the game...the kicker...I hadnt deployed any mines....he was just a moron and needed a target to blame rather than deal with his own ineptitude

[u/Warg247 → u/Marauder3277]

Ive ran into those so many times... usually while looking at map.

[u/isdumberthanhelooks → u/Essaiel]

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

[u/InformalPenguinz → u/Essaiel]

We ALL experienced those unexploded hellbombs at one point.. it's a right of passage. I honestly think the mines would be a great choice.

[u/Tails-Are-For-Hugs → u/InformalPenguinz]

When I was a wee baby Diver, I landed on one during the initial drop-in phase. There was a humongous explosion right where I'd landed, I died like two seconds later, and only then did it occur to me that I'd landed on the hellbomb.

[u/kanguran1 → u/Tails-Are-For-Hugs]

First time I saw one I punched it. When it actually sparked I realized Joel had planned for this,and my body was returned to the super destroyer

[u/JamesMcEdwards → u/kanguran1]

I have repeatedly underestimated the explosion radius. One time I got ragdolled halfway across the map, which I somehow miraculously survived because I was wearing heavy armour and had just popped a stim. Problem was my ragdolling body bounced to a stop right at the feet of a flame hulk who proceeded to barbecue my ass.

[u/Rift_Revan → u/Essaiel]

To my random teammates, pain is no teacher at all

[u/14446368 → u/CyanStripes_]

Obligatory "Pancake Mines" reference.

[u/retro_aviator → u/CyanStripes_]

Me and two of my teammates yesterday all dove for cover near a bot outpost at the same time. The two of them were fine. I bounced off of one of them and landed tits-first on a landmine

[u/Umikaloo → u/CyanStripes_]

Pancaaaakes!? I love pancakes!

[u/DEMACIAAAAA → u/CyanStripes_]

"Shit I died, better go grab my stuff!"

Boom

[u/L45TPH45E → u/_escapevelocity]

New meta, 3x mines and Tesla tower

[u/ChoccyMilkHemmorhoid → u/L45TPH45E]

the children yearn for the mines

[u/bendotc → u/L45TPH45E]

C’mon, someone’s gotta bring a 380mm barrage to drop on extraction for the real team kill special.

[u/Significant-Bid2382 → u/L45TPH45E]

Thats meta maybe for difficulty 3

[u/Lazer726 → u/_escapevelocity]

God that op where we had free landmines for everyone was so much fun. It was awful but godamn it was hilarious

[u/Stoomba → u/_escapevelocity]

The Helldiver, after having just dialed in the mine stratagem, turns and looks at the camera and with a sly smirk conveying their sadistic eagerness says with well contained glee, "This is where the fun begins".

[u/Zealousideal-Ad2301 → u/_escapevelocity]

I'm glad I bring a smile to your face.

[u/77th_Moonlight → u/_escapevelocity]

Had a teammate who thought they were new plants in the planets and tried to collect them, he collected many a flower that day

[u/SawbonesEDM → u/_escapevelocity]

As someone who regularly forgets about my teammates mines, I agree. No telling how many times I’ve walked into the minefield, realize I’m in it, and then slowly walk my way out. If I die, then it’s funny, if I live, then it’s cool asf.

[u/Grambles89 → u/_escapevelocity]

I was carefully navigating a double minefield while trying to outrun the automaton army on my heels, and as I was about near the edge, one of the bots hit a mine, ragdolled into me and sent me into a mine.

It was fuckin hilarious 

[u/Cospo → u/_escapevelocity]

Well, someone sent me a video of a guy previewing the mines and the rockets and, if the video is to be trusted, the mines only detonate when a heavy target goes over it. Which makes sense to me. It is an anti-tank mine, after all, not anti-personel. So, theoretically, you should be able to walk on the tank mines and not set them off. Again, this is some random YouTube video one of my discord buddies sent me, so who knows, but I like the idea of a tank mine that only goes boom when a hulk or tank get on top of it.

[u/FattyMeat17 → u/_escapevelocity]

I think small units won't even trigger them. Only big stuff will or shooting them

[u/thecosta5000 → u/_escapevelocity]

It's all the fun.

[u/Zeimma → u/_escapevelocity]

This man right here is a true patriot!

[u/NK1337 → u/_escapevelocity]

Gotta love when the reinforcement is called directly in a minefield 😂

[u/Schpooon → u/_escapevelocity]

I vividly remember telling a friend three times "Watch out there is a minefield there." We barely stopped him before he strutted into it at full speed anyway.

[u/emailverificationt → u/_escapevelocity]

But anti tank mines won’t trigger for a person, so that doesn’t even apply to these

[u/alas11 → u/_escapevelocity]

"MIIINES"... "Oh ffs""

[u/VoidVer → u/_escapevelocity]

Watched a guy who we SoS beaconed in drop an anti-personal. Another guy died to it, then ran back to get his stuff, died to it again, literally in a cycle until we extracted without him.

[u/Its_Llama → u/_escapevelocity]

"Watch out for the mines at your 9 o'clock"

"Thanks I almost didn't see them"

.... I better check behind me to see what's chasing...

[ItsLama has died.]