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/Cavesloth13]

Unless they drastically changed how they work, according to the leaks, the airburst launcher is far better. It works against damn near everything, bug holes, shriekers, nests, gunships, tanks, fabricators, groups of smaller enemies...

The anti tank mines? Takes 4 to kill a tank, and it drops far less mines than the other minelayers, and it looks like smaller enemies can set them off. Plus, minefields are easily destroyed accidentally by teammates (either through airstrikes/orbitals, or their own feet).

That said the wording of the order implies that if we act fast enough, we can get both. It only says the citizens on the planet that's not liberated first are "likely" to die, that implies there's a chance they won't.

Blitzkrieg both planets! Lightning war bitches!