Thoughts on dealing with gunship factories

[esilva9]

The only thing i can think of to deal with those targets is to drop a hellbomb and then a shield generator on top of it to protect it until it explodes. i only fought once and avoided bot missions since but when i heard the deliminator has been buffed im going to try again with that tactic in mind. any strategies to consider against this nasty obstacle?

[Tigerhawk71]

Literally just use a hellbomb and leave

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by Tigerhawk71:

Literally just use a hellbomb and leave

It's not always that easy, gunships have a habit of spawning and straight up beaming it sometimes. There are also bots that spawn with it normally, and you can encounter bot drops or patrols that will sometimes have a clear line of sight and just beam it as well.

The issue is that unlike every other objective in the game, you can't kill gunship fabs with the other strategems you have. You can't 500kg it, you can't orbital laser, you can't 120/380mm it, it has to be a hellbomb. None of the other objectives work like that, even on the bot side, where you can at least save your 500 and kill it.

[Tigerhawk71]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

Originally posted by Tigerhawk71:

Literally just use a hellbomb and leave

It's not always that easy, gunships have a habit of spawning and straight up beaming it sometimes. There are also bots that spawn with it normally, and you can encounter bot drops or patrols that will sometimes have a clear line of sight and just beam it as well.

The issue is that unlike every other objective in the game, you can't kill gunship fabs with the other strategems you have. You can't 500kg it, you can't orbital laser, you can't 120/380mm it, it has to be a hellbomb. None of the other objectives work like that, even on the bot side, where you can at least save your 500 and kill it.

Sounds like a skill issue to me.

[Legionairie(BR)]

Smoke Strike + Shield Generator Relay then use the Hellbomb. Lost a mission minutes ago and came up with this solution. Even with 4 people using Quasar Cannons or Recoilless it's hard to clear the mobs and the gunships that will destroy your hellbomb before it explodes.

[Chaosdiver]

Originally posted by Legionairie:

Smoke Strike + Shield Generator Relay then use the Hellbomb. Lost a mission minutes ago and came up with this solution. Even with 4 people using Quasar Cannons or Recoilless it's hard to clear the mobs and the gunships that will destroy your hellbomb before it explodes.

Sounds like a skill issue I've cleared them solo with a Quasar on helldive and mostly with a second one it's too easy. The real ♥♥♥♥♥ is when you get two towers next to each other. Hellbomb usually fails to blow up both unless perfect placement and can only call one in a time making it a protracted ordeal.

[Styrian]

Its the same issue with shriekers calling bug breach or they destroy it by diving at you

[rohesilmnelohe]

Originally posted by Euphoric:

Originally posted by Legionairie:

Smoke Strike + Shield Generator Relay then use the Hellbomb. Lost a mission minutes ago and came up with this solution. Even with 4 people using Quasar Cannons or Recoilless it's hard to clear the mobs and the gunships that will destroy your hellbomb before it explodes.

Sounds like a skill issue I've cleared them solo with a Quasar on helldive and mostly with a second one it's too easy. The real ♥♥♥♥♥ is when you get two towers next to each other. Hellbomb usually fails to blow up both unless perfect placement and can only call one in a time making it a protracted ordeal.

Oof... yesterday played two missions on insanity where they were paired up. We managed to struggle and kill one.. but by that point there were 10+ gunships around us. It was absolutely insane.

Double dropship is a nuclear mine i really do not want to repeat.

[Pinkeh]

You can safely crawl into a gunship facility, neutralise the guards and call in the hellbomb without causing a ruckus. The trick is to understand how stealth and detection works. If you go in guns-blazing as your default behaviour, well good luck.

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by esilva9:

but when i heard the deliminator has been buffed

What in the world is a deliminator

[sweng]

A small finding about hellbomb.
If you are calling a hellbomb and not throw it, the stratagem will be activating. Your teammate call a hellbomb throw it and call in then you only throw out your activating hellbomb strategem. You will get 2 hellbomb at the same time. Useful if need to destroy 2 tower at once but need some coordination