I'm Surrounded by Biter Spawners!

[c.bundy99]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=708326203
How the ♥♥♥♥ will I be able to expand now?! Even my tank gets destroyed when I get close to their spawners.
At this point restarting seems like a good idea.

[Ultra]

Situations like this is super hard to deal with indeed. Im new to this game so I dont know how to deal with it either but in the future they will add artilery turrets. I would imagine that they outrange evrythinge the biters has. So maybe that will help in the future.

[KatherineOfSky]

You don't say what kind of tech level you have, or how evolved the biters are. I would suggest that you build a power suit, ASAP. Tank is a mid-game tech only, and power suits with shields are for mid- to end-game.

Defender capsules will help with attacking bases. Use poison capsules to clear out worms, and combat shotgun with AP shells to attack bases.

You can also use the turret creep method -- place down turrets, then quickly fill with bullets... place a couple more closer, etc. If you have lasers, do it with those.

For more details, check out my guide, under Combat - Offense and Combat - Armor:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=661582295

[Celmeo]

You have no need to get close to the spawners with tanks.

A simple low tech method: place down gun turrets to defend your tank and hit them with tank shells from max range. Let the turrets deal with all the biters, use tank to kill worms and spawners.

If you have significant numbers of laser turrets, you can "creep" the turrets into their base gradually without even needing to prepare tanks and stuff.

[pbrianmccain]

no need to respawn since you have survived long enough to get robots. Automatically fill the robotports in your base with repair packs and put up outposts that fill the turrets with ammo from a requester chest. Build a blueprint of a fully enclosed outpost with laser and gun turrets then creep it toward that big base to the west. Place overlapping roboports to build and support the outposts. The gun turrets shred the biters and the laser has the range to deal with the spitters (they work in concert with each other!). Surround yourself with a fully repairable wall and hunker down until you are confident enough to push back on the aliens.

If you want to do it on foot then I 100% recommend the autofill mod. Then just take a few stacks of gun turrets and lay a line down and creep your way forward (personal roboport helps here big time to keep them alive).

One recommendation for using the tank. NEVER STOP MOVING!. Do not let yourself get surrounded. Drive around the base having the biters chase you and take down the spawners. Then you can drive back to a line of turrets to clean the biters and spitters off you. I just use the machine gun with fully upgraded piercing bullets and a spawner goes down in seconds. A personal roboport repairs your tank as you drive if you haven't tried it. Spitters tend to also shoot at the robots instead of you. Distractor, defender and destroyer capsules plus poison will take out just about anything in vanilla.