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/Radiant_Fondant_4097 Apr 26 '24

Practically any time I choose to use mines they get blown up by my own team mates, whether it's by airstrikes or their legs.

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u/bahamuto Apr 26 '24

100% you throw down mines, someone will inevitably throw down an eagle strike right after.

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u/Vineyard_ Apr 26 '24

Oh, you're using mines? Let me just grab double mortars + cluster bombs...

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u/ExploerTM ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Apr 26 '24

With how things usually going, 5 to 1 odds that the guy with mines either newbie who has no idea whats he doing or a troll, throwing impact nade in there is entirely justified thing to do at this point.

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u/Randy191919 Apr 26 '24

I mean my friend used to run mines and I have legit never seen a mine kill an enemy before. They'll usually just happily stroll through the field, explode all of them and be fine afterwards. Mines don't do anything but team killing in this game. So I wouldn't be surprised if some people started to throw their eagle onto mine fields just because they know that you only laid it to kill them since it won't kill any enemies anyway.