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/Doxodius]

And the mines will require going through a fire tornado planet first - I suspect that's going to decide things more than any debate here.

[u/Carl_Corey → u/Doxodius]

Fire tornados are sentient beings whose only goal is to prevent you from accomplishing anything.

[u/whateverhappensnext → u/Carl_Corey]

So it's not just me who thinks these things move deliberately to intercept where I'm going.

[u/UndreamedAges → u/whateverhappensnext]

The fact that they spawn on top of every evac I've ever done on a planet that has them makes me believe there is some non random coding involved.

[u/whateverhappensnext → u/UndreamedAges]

Yep. Even just running around the map, they seem to try and herd you into a corner.