What is the best calldown to destroy buildings and bases

[Marcus]

Hi, I been using HE artillery bombardment and while it spends half a minute blowing up an area, the factories and bug holes are still standing and as a result spawn more reinforcements. The HE artillery I find quite inaccurate and dangerous to yourself and teammates.

Carpet bombing is great at wiping out the enemy patrols, but doesn't damage buildings. Nearly every base I have destroyed, I had to do it manually with a grenade and sometimes, (especially with bugs) when you throw a grenade, a bug spawns blocking the grenade throw. One time a bug just spawn in front of a grenade throw and the grenade bounced back on my feet. *BOOM*

This is quite risky especially on higher difficulties. I am level 15 at the moment. Any suggestions on how improve blowing up bases, without having to do a direct up and close assault and throwing grenades at them? Can any of the weapon load-outs destroy buildings? Cheers all

[Paper Rival]

Airstrike is my favorite and is a great all rounder than can take out multiple.

Precision strike works for taking out a single building.

380 barrage can clear large bug nests or bot bases, but please throw 75m away or warn your team.

Orbital laser can also clear multiple buildings, etc.

[Sanglaine]

Laser IMO, but 120 and 380 are also great. I use laser and 120 for search and destroy on helldive and 380 when solo. The laser will actively track down and focus turrets/factories/mortars.

Edit: Laser won't focus bug holes though.

[CountCapacollo]

What do you mean? throw a He 380 or 120 at your feet and you only have a 50% chance of being hit.

[kebabsoup]

For large bot bases and command bunkers the orbital laser is simply the best. And yeah for small bases the basic airstrike is perfect. But for those sentry towers, the 500kg is needed if you want to skip the hellbomb.

[Forblaze]

The regular Eagle airstrike is the probably the best for taking out buildings with no other conditions.

500KG has worse availability and range but also takes out heavily armored units, which makes it a strong substitute.

Orbital Laser is probably the best for taking out a whole fortified area with multiple buildings without entering it but is limited by a long cooldown and limited uses.

[Axis of Lint]

^ Airstrike is generally the best for destroying buildings (I've hit up to three in one strike before depending on building clustering). Precision works, but obviously only hits a single and has some bounce to it making aiming difficult sometimes.

Railcannon strike will take out a single fabricator if nothing else large is in the area (I'm actually not 100% sure what the targeting priorities are).

[ulzgoroth]

Airstrike as others say is the champion of general use.

I also have fondness for the starter Orbital Precision Strike, because it's simple, focused, and relatively fast cooldown.

500kg can blow up some things that airstrike can't. The research lab, for instance. It can't do every job a hellbomb can, but it can do some of them.

The big barrages (120mm or 380mm) are a mixed bag - they can outright clear a whole base area with luck, but they're random enough that they might not, and the safe way to use them is mostly to throw them one way and then run the other.

I don't think I'd recommend any other strategems for demolition purposes.

[Forblaze]

Publicado originalmente por Axis of Lint:

Railcannon strike will take out a single fabricator if nothing else large is in the area (I'm actually not 100% sure what the targeting priorities are).

Railcannon is a good callout because of how generous the targeting is. It lets you hit some fabricators that may be outside of normal throwing range.

[Imnuktam]

For larger bug holes 380+120 will 'usually' close all of it. Bringing just one never seems to do anything for me.

For fabricators i like 500k bomb since you can call it down far more often than the orbital laser.

Also, anything you call down on a fab like a resupply or your backpack/weapons for example destroys it if you land it on top. Same with bug holes though there are a lot more of them.

Weapons that are worth using and you can close holes with imo are grenade pistol/grenade launcher, quasar, autocannon and the new eruptor.

[WastingSanity]

Supply Drop.

[GuyFawx]

Ive been killed by too many 380s to hate you all for suggesting it to newer players please dont use it until you know when to throw it otherwise you will just wipe out your team.

[psionyx]

Publicado originalmente por Sanglaine:

Laser IMO, but 120 and 380 are also great. I use laser and 120 for search and destroy on helldive and 380 when solo. The laser will actively track down and focus turrets/factories/mortars.

Edit: Laser won't focus bug holes though.

so you would say that the orbital laser is best used as an all around base killer when it's automatons, but not bugs?

I'm fairly new and have noticed that the default orbital strike often doesn't take out even the smaller buildings. Even when the marker is literally ON the building. But every time someone brings down the laser, it seems to kill every base nearly instantly. So yeah, tips on a good "this will kill the base" strategem would be great. I see people use hellbombs a lot, but i'm looking for something I can call down from outside an enemy base, without having to run in and press buttons on it.

[gachi is manly]

380 barrage, laser, and good ol regular eagle airstrike.

[WastingSanity]

For attacking an enemy location, I like the walking barrage and the airstrike.

[crumpy108]

Publicado originalmente por GuyFawx:

Ive been killed by too many 380s to hate you all for suggesting it to newer players please dont use it until you know when to throw it otherwise you will just wipe out your team.

I'm still not even sure why people suggest it in the first place. It's not that the other call downs are better, the 380 and 120 simply don't do anything useful yet that I've seen.

I've used them both maybe a dozen times each, and doesn't matter where I throw the beacon, they simply don't hit any targets I need them to. I've tried dead center of bases/nests, I've tried off to the side a bit. I've never even seen a team mate use it to do something besides use up reinforcements.

I just don't understand where people are using them? Nobody brings them on anything 7+ It seems like every time you call it down, you are relying on luck to do the job. If they could provide consistent behavior, I would use them for something as I've been able to do with most strats.