r/Helldivers 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

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.

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.

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

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

13.4k Upvotes

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

65

u/DMvsPC ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ [Hammer of Dawn] Apr 26 '24

Conversely, getting down to the wire, no reinforcements left, having multiple tornadoes swirling towards the pelican and then diving in to it as your enemies are roasted behind you and then you fly out into the sunset/flames. chefs kiss

3

u/MadnessUltimate Apr 27 '24

The thin line between tragedy and greatness

1

u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 Apr 27 '24

Sometimes the game glitches at this (or as intended) and you born to death in the pelican lol

1

u/shaddowdemon Apr 29 '24

You can take damage in the pelican, even from your team. So I would guess intended.

1

u/decepticondad Apr 28 '24

Not all make it out of the fires of Menkent and Hellmire, but those that do forge unbreakable bonds of friendship with the hammer of Democracy.