Harkonnen gunners upgrades?

[Wolfschadow]

So I am currently trying to get into playing as house harkonnen and I have found something interesting. The harkonnen gunners can exchange their explosive cannons for miniguns but they lose demolitions in the process. However they also have the concentrated explosives upgrade and I was wondering if that allows their gunners to still strip enemies of their armor when upgrading them with miniguns. Does anyone know if that works or if the minigun upgrade just negates all armor stripping from them?

[Katitoff]

Make a game save, get the upgrades and find out.

[Novia]

That's arguably the best kind of combo for em, the only thing you're missing out is splash damage which often times gets gunners in problems more than not, they still strip armor. Mass probes equipped with bombs will probably shred more armor overall in a fight, but you can definitely make-do with that setup.

[Kolopaper]

Yes, it works perfectly. In fact, the gunners have the highest dps among all ranged units in the game with minigun + armor shred upgrades + some power boosting from doping and some buildings. On top of that, they have the fastest armor shredding as well. Their downside, is their range is lower because they are originally explosive units.

Having said that though, they also lose their Aoe damage from being explosive. While a pure damage build instead of miniguns, is weaker, it is also good enough to use if you don't want to miss out on Aoe damage. So i guess mostly it comes down to your personal preference.