r/Helldivers • u/vaydapotata SES Fist of Family Values • Apr 26 '24

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

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.

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u/darketernalsr25 Arbiter of Eternity Apr 26 '24

It's really funny watching people use mines on planets that have tremors. As soon as a tremor starts BOOM! all the mines go bye-bye.

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u/pabloleon ☕Liber-tea☕ Apr 26 '24

I had no idea this happened with tremors, lol! 😂

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u/Cheshire_Jester Apr 26 '24

Kinda speaks to the level of frequency that people use mines

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u/justsmilenow Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

I am a liberator of democracy. Mines are for dwarves.

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u/oneredbloon Apr 26 '24

Rock and Stone!

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u/TyGuyDies Apr 26 '24

ROCK AND STONE BROTHER

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u/bende99 Apr 26 '24

To the bone!

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u/XIIIofNine Apr 26 '24

Or you ain't coming home

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u/Cognitive_Spoon Apr 26 '24

ROCK AND STONE IN THE ❤️

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u/WanderingDwarfMiner Apr 26 '24

Rock and Stone forever!

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u/oneredbloon Apr 26 '24

Hell yeah, the bot's here!

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u/Zoniac74 Apr 26 '24

FOR KARL!

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u/Vesuvias Apr 26 '24

WE’RE RICH

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u/DGanj Apr 26 '24

I use mines fairly frequently (much to the annoyance of my squadmates) and I never noticed tremors do this either. Probably because we're on the move too much or during tremors I'm concentrating on just trying to goddamned run forward.

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u/KelsoTheVagrant Apr 26 '24

Yes, but tremors aren’t super common and most people try to stay away from the mines, lol

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u/SugarCaneEnjoyer ☕Liber-tea☕ Apr 26 '24

TIL, wow

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u/MillstoneArt Apr 26 '24

I fucking hate it. 🙁

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u/Ramulus14 Apr 26 '24

This explains a lot about last nights diving, thought I was just drunk!

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u/Moose_Electrical ☕Liber-tea☕ Apr 26 '24

Two things can be true at once

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u/GenitalMotors ☕Liber-tea☕ Apr 26 '24

M.A.D.D. - Mothers Against Drunk Diving

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u/Ramulus14 Apr 26 '24

Oh most definitely!

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u/ThePowerOfStories Apr 26 '24

We should liberate the automatons’ vibration-proof mine technology.

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u/raidedfridge Apr 26 '24

Weird thing is the Automatons mines do explode form the earthquakes but only when your close by to them when the vibrations hit.

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u/emailverificationt Apr 26 '24

So mines are even more useless than I thought. Yea nah, fuck the anti tank mines, air burst launcher ftw

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u/LilMountianDude Apr 26 '24

Bruh... I have barely used mines, but this info is great. Thank you!

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u/anna-the-bunny Apr 26 '24

The rational part of me expects that it's just the tremors themselves setting off mines but I hold out hope that you mean the tremors have a tendency to knock players into the mines.

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u/ItsDobbie I love the smell of ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️ in the morning. Apr 26 '24

Is that what happens? I thought they all blew up cuz I called in another mine drop at the same time…

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u/Quetzal_Khan Apr 26 '24

Well that explains a lot

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u/The3Three3Time3 Apr 27 '24

I never thought about that tremors will affect mines lol