Is destroying bot fabricators with the punisher plasma possible?

[CursedPh4nt0m]

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I'm 100% sure I somehow managed to (accidentally) destroy a bot fabricator while trying out indirect fire with the punisher plasma. (So no vision on what happened with the fabricator.)
I didn't have any turrets/stratagems/whatever active, so there shouldn't be any other cause for the factory to blow up. Yet actually getting a kill on a fabricator should - as far as I'm aware - be impossible with the SG-8P.

My only hunch is that I somehow landed a hit in one of the 'vents', but I'd like your input on whether you had any similar experiences. I have yet to manage to repeat this feat in any case.

[Midas]

Not possible, as far as I'm aware. The plasma weapons don't have high enough demolition force. It's possible an enemy reacting to your fire got a lucky (unlucky?) hit and destroyed their own fabricator?

[CursedPh4nt0m]

Originally posted by Midas:

Not possible, as far as I'm aware. The plasma weapons don't count as explosive damage, I don't think, and they don't have high enough demolition force anyways. It's possible an enemy reacting to your fire got a lucky (unlucky?) hit and destroyed their own fabricator?

Unlikely. Again not too sure what actually happened, but I'm pretty sure there wasn't even a devastator around. So unless one of the tinies lobbed a nade at its own fabricator while I wasn't even in sight....

As mentioned, I know it shouldn't be possible, yet something very clearly managed to destroy the fabricator and there shouldn't have been anything but the normal infantry bots and my punisher rounds at play.

[Wutever]

Fabricators require a demolition force of 20 to get destroyed by firing at the vents and 40 to get destroyed by firing at the body. Alternatively, they can be destroyed by dealing 1500 damage to them (armor class 5, 100% durable).

Plasma Punisher has a demolition force of 10 and AP3.

Enemy cannons and Factory Strider movement can destroy fabricators.

[Foxador]

The MG bots with the backpacks that explode can destroy fabricators if you kill them at the door

[KaraPenguin]

Originally posted by Foxador:

The MG bots with the backpacks that explode can destroy fabricators if you kill them at the door

This is the most likely. I've had a few times where shooting one of the MG Raiders cause the fab to explode because it got knocked backwards into the door.

[CursedPh4nt0m]

Originally posted by Foxador:

The MG bots with the backpacks that explode can destroy fabricators if you kill them at the door

That must've been it then. Would've never expected such a weird interaction tho.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom.