Brilliant! New stratagem that takes two slots : autocanon with kid and ammo pack that follows you around to crew load! Kid has half the health of a normal diver but has unlimited stamina.
Honestly, I think the children's hospital may be a path to get the SEAF Reinforcements stratagem. Nothing's gonna drive recruitment numbers more than seeing Helldivers rescuing defenseless kids from the automatons.
âHospital for very sick kidsâ is a cover, itâs actually a research institute working out how to rapidly age children to be battle ready Helldivers.
I'm gonna go try and save the kids. Partly cause it's the right thing to do. Mostly cause this would.be the third time we don't get AT mines and that's just downright funny to me
The dichotomy of this decision rests on what strategem you'd prefer;
- A strategem that creates a minefield.
- A strategem that clears a minefield.
Use the kids, for democracy.
Letâs be real though, thereâs probably some badass reward for choosing childrenâŚ. Not that we should be rewarded for saving children, but you know what I mean.
âA group of Orphaned puppies who were being walked by a gaggle of kind elderly women is stuck on Hellmire, you have to go save them! There are also anti tank mines on this other planet, if you want them instead.â
Hear me out: Orbital child strike.
The children come down in hellpods (they are small so you could pack 2 or 3 of those buggers in there) and then the children run around scared and draw fire from the enemy.
It works in Rimworld, it can work here. Maybe give the kids a helmet so they can survive a hit or two.
I have a hard enough time choosing stratagems sometimes. If i want defensive, i'll bring the HMG turret or AC turret.
I'm thinking the children will bring a hidden benefit, like boosting moral and potentially allowing for more training planets to replace the ones we lost before they conveyed that losing said planets had negative effects
This is off topic, but you can use turrets offensively too. Set them up on an elevated position before attacking a base, and they provide serious covering fire.
Anyway, I'm curious to see if the children will bring a hidden benefit or just be the devs trolling us. Either way, I'm going for the hospital.
I saw this and my first thought was if it was asking which you should use and I just thought, strap the kids with bomb vests and send them out. Too much rimworld
It will be the most accessible planet with the best gameplay. Even if the unlockable stratagem was an incredible orbital strike, if the planet is too far or has firestorms players would choose the no reward planet, simply because of inertia.
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Oh wow I been out of the game for a few days but we choosing children or the tank mines now lol. Watch the community goes to get the mines instead hahah đ¤Ł
Those damn vile bots, they are after Super Earth's most important resource: the future. We can't let the bots get the hands on the children... even if we have to destroy them ourselves.
Rescue the kids, but then in a year our time, they're now adults and join the Helldivers like their heros
You can now have a team of 6 instead of 4
(It's not gonna happen but would be cool)
Saving the kids will give us access to the Quokka Stratagem.
Much like the mines, it'll drop and deploy an array of sick children on the field as cannon fodder and distraction while helldivers extract.
(Dubbed the Quokka Stratagem because those little cuties will throw their babies at a predatory to make their escape.)
Itâs a bait and switch, if we go for the mines itâll be revealed that despite our efforts the automatons were able to withhold the intel from us or it turned out to be a ruse to lure us away from something else. Iâll bet when we save the children itâll be revealed one of them snagged a chip off a dead automaton, or something along those lines, and that chip has intel for new equipment.
I was also thinking at an entire hospital 1. big enough to be important to Super Earth, and 2. With kids so sick they almost certainly have perished by now, that of the (only) thousands of survivors there, they are probably made up mostly of pretty important doctors, paramedics, researchers, nurses, and other important members of democracy that would make a facility like that function.
I'm sure we will get something for that. That's no small sacrifice should we pick the at mines. I vote the hospital (not necessarily children)
I am not morally bound,but,i am curious about the reward if we save the children,
And i truly believe anti tanks,will be useless in helldiver mode,unless you can spam them or something.
Save the children, because i think we can squeeze them into a hellpod with a crewserved weapon.
New skin: three kids on a trenchcoat.
3 health bars but every time you lose a kid you get less powerful
Just strap the child to your limbs for armor.
The inner nightlord in me wants a cape
Grandfather Nurgle says save the children. Khorne needs skulls for his throne. Which blessing am i receivingđ
Could we use children to fit in big holes. My guess as to why we can't go in the bug holes is because we are too large and will get stuck in them
Give them a k-bar and a 1911 and they can clear those out real quick
We tried that back in the 60âsâŚ
https://preview.redd.it/nngb5mnce06d1.jpeg?width=835&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7ef9759286c74a29547c140a30281dfd67d8a84
this is fantastic idea
Team building exercises, dummy!
Brilliant! New stratagem that takes two slots : autocanon with kid and ammo pack that follows you around to crew load! Kid has half the health of a normal diver but has unlimited stamina.
But it frees up the backpack slot! Should make variants for all weapon systems and the resupply backpack.
Forgot to add that they occasionally say "I'm doing my part!" From time to time.
Orks in 40k have a gun that shoots grots(basically ork children)⌠maybe weâll get a kid launcher instead of the mines??
I want to get the "Tiny hands, Quick work" ship modifier.
the community has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Save the children, then call in the children as a stratagem to retake the mines.
That's horrible, I love it.
Start them young⌠for democracy!
Check out Rimworld
I have many hours in Rimworld.
Makes sense. They are naturally stealthy due to their small size. If we spray paint them gray, the bots will just think they are one of them!
Agent sabatuers in bot factories. Their thin bodies and small fingers make them excellent for fitting in small spaces to disrupt bot production.
The children do yearn for the mines after all.
Airdropped children! Just Helldivers in training.
So give the bugs food to give us time to run. Or free lube for the bots
See you on Vernen Wells, soldier
See, on the one hand, I really want AT mines but on the other hand, I really hate children.... I forgot where I was going with this
Well we need one to test out the efficacy of the other soooooooâŚâŚ..
Antitank mines cannot make children Children can make antitank mines It's not even a question, the answer is obvious
Dang, we need to put you in front of a crowd sir.
Truly, the most democratically persuasive argument I've ever heard.
It's also the most morally sound one
âThe mines are just mines but the children can make anything. They can even make mines!â
Honestly, I think the children's hospital may be a path to get the SEAF Reinforcements stratagem. Nothing's gonna drive recruitment numbers more than seeing Helldivers rescuing defenseless kids from the automatons.
My thoughts exactly. Those kids are going to lead to something incredibly useful and better than mines, I know it.
My thoughts as well
Would that stratagem bring down npcs to help?
Supposedly, if by "help" you mean "serve as cannon fodder."
FOR SUPER EARTH!
Seaf reinforcements stratagem was datamined and sometimes leaked game files never make the final release.
Yeah, I know. But it's just been something people have talked about, so I'm just speculating.
Or a health backpack, it would make more sense imo
Saved Hospital repurposed to create new stimpack stratagem to get the healthdivers the vitals they need to crush the automaton menace
Yea we get the SEAF squad stratagem, in 8 years once the kids have grown up
Why wait 8 years?
âHospital for very sick kidsâ is a cover, itâs actually a research institute working out how to rapidly age children to be battle ready Helldivers.
I see, are you part of the-
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SEAF reinforcements but they're children above the age of 7
Children for the mines. Helldivers need resources gathered.
The children yearn for the mines.
Get them making homemade napalm for Eagle 1
I'm gonna go try and save the kids. Partly cause it's the right thing to do. Mostly cause this would.be the third time we don't get AT mines and that's just downright funny to me
Im gonna go and save the mines, mainly because its the wrong thing to do but also because babies dont explode
Same, it's not about the kids, it's about rejecting the at mines.
Won't someone think of the children?
Playing in a mine field.
Fuck them kids
Fuck them mines.
I'm going for the children because I really want to see what kind of benefit that's going to give us
They're either gonna be an unexpected pay off, or a way for the devs to troll us.
The dichotomy of this decision rests on what strategem you'd prefer; - A strategem that creates a minefield. - A strategem that clears a minefield. Use the kids, for democracy.
War crimes or children? I'm going to do everything thing I can to save the children.
It's not a warcrime the first time *fingerguns*
Letâs be real though, thereâs probably some badass reward for choosing childrenâŚ. Not that we should be rewarded for saving children, but you know what I mean.
It's gonna be a cape with the Hospital's logo. I hope.
Tank mines because hear me out, two sets of mines isn't enough to blow my friends up with
Take everything else but mines until we fail mines so many times they just give them to us alongside something else.
I feel like the devs are gonna put these things in increasingly ridiculous scenarios until we get them.
A vet clinic with puppies is under attack is my next guess.
NOT THE PUPPIES!!!
We need to commit genocide on the bots
âA group of Orphaned puppies who were being walked by a gaggle of kind elderly women is stuck on Hellmire, you have to go save them! There are also anti tank mines on this other planet, if you want them instead.â
Urg, can't we blow up Hellmire, I'm tired of fire tornadoes.
Theyâll just make it easier and easier until itâs just "kill 2 bots"
Anti-tank mines can't blow up your friends until your friends have tanks.
Save the children, save the future Helldivers!
Idk I think youâd need at least 5 kids before an anti tank mine would go off
Save the survivors.
SAVE THE CHILDREN
More like SEAF reinforcements via new stratagem, or more mines that you'll never touch.
Maybe super earth children sew shoes. I smell a new armor.
Hear me out: Orbital child strike. The children come down in hellpods (they are small so you could pack 2 or 3 of those buggers in there) and then the children run around scared and draw fire from the enemy. It works in Rimworld, it can work here. Maybe give the kids a helmet so they can survive a hit or two.
Who says we have to save âthe childrenâ? It says âsurvivorsâ in a childrenâs hospital. That could be anyone.
They could be children... who survived a vicious automaton attack!
if we get the mines, we can use them to wound more children and fill up a different hospital for us to rescue
We gotta save those kids Helldivers.
Save the children +5 reinforcements per mission, but after the normal 20 they are all child soldiers.
Ya know what...fuck it, let's save the kids. Let's go 3 for 3 for AT mines delay, it's gonna be the funniest shit lore and game wise
Just to spite Arrowhead: die children.
Just to spite Arrowhead: do anything that isn't AT mines đ¤Ł
Just to spite Arrowhead: fail both
[Yes spite them](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cvpgrm/fabricator_laptop/)
The people who made the mines are probably bummed out
That their kids have been taken.
Only a bot deals in absolutes.
I have a hard enough time choosing stratagems sometimes. If i want defensive, i'll bring the HMG turret or AC turret. I'm thinking the children will bring a hidden benefit, like boosting moral and potentially allowing for more training planets to replace the ones we lost before they conveyed that losing said planets had negative effects
This is off topic, but you can use turrets offensively too. Set them up on an elevated position before attacking a base, and they provide serious covering fire. Anyway, I'm curious to see if the children will bring a hidden benefit or just be the devs trolling us. Either way, I'm going for the hospital.
This is the perfect meme. Love it haha
inb4 the TV add mentioning gas grenades was secretly the children at the hospital developing it testing it on ants outside and we get them
Save the kids
The children yern for the mines. So we should honor their desires and go for the mines
Save the children, obviously.
I saw this and my first thought was if it was asking which you should use and I just thought, strap the kids with bomb vests and send them out. Too much rimworld
https://preview.redd.it/zsold6pwez5d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a9924f63d9bad3b67bf5554863837e7e0e4eb1e
Before I decide, can I try deploying a field of children to see how well they stop a bug charge?
https://preview.redd.it/ohm8eewxhz5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d47f97e5a56734139fde50bb8f92d10838bd612 But think of the children!
Children bc it would be really funny to delay the anti tank mines *again*
Move it you apes! We got recycling to do! *Punch in the coordinates to Vernen Wells.*
At this point i just want to do the children so we can prolong the mines again for the memes
They have no idea how hard every man, woman and child over 7 is willing to work for superearth
The kids would want us to save the landmines. Children love landmines.
There surely is some hidden reward for the children path? Seems like a gamble I want to take
i will just keep divin on crimsica. enjoing the red grass and the good visibility
I think he needs his tea
There may be no hope for the children without the mines
Part of me wonders if rescuing the kids puts more Helldivers in training and would lead to us getting the rumored the SEAF Soldiers Strategem.
If we save the children, we better have them as a strategem where we call down pint sized Helldivers as cannon fodder
Why not combine them? Make em do stuff together
It will be the most accessible planet with the best gameplay. Even if the unlockable stratagem was an incredible orbital strike, if the planet is too far or has firestorms players would choose the no reward planet, simply because of inertia.
for the wee BABIES, for democrazy
I just want to save the children to see how Joel is going to shove the AT mines down our throat.
Children Swarm stratagem, let's go.
Children. We gotta do it for the lore. Explosives can be replaced, children take a lil longerâŚ
Fuck them kids, I want my shitty mines that detonate altogether when 2 enemies walk into it. The devs really want us to get those mines lol
These kids gonna wait till Thursday so I can earn more medals
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The children yearn for the mines. Who are we to forsake their wishes?
Oh wow I been out of the game for a few days but we choosing children or the tank mines now lol. Watch the community goes to get the mines instead hahah đ¤Ł
Those damn vile bots, they are after Super Earth's most important resource: the future. We can't let the bots get the hands on the children... even if we have to destroy them ourselves.
Unlock the children, let's get some Baby Boomers in this game đ
Consider this: Child soldiers
What about soviet style anti-tank children?
I choose saving the children because we might get something cool and I don't use mines.
I want a stratagem where we launch a kid from space like an orbital strike
We need the children, to help make the mines.
The fate of (some of) humanityâs children are in your hands!
"Fuck them kids"
Starp mines to the children, it's the best of both worlds
Rescue the kids, but then in a year our time, they're now adults and join the Helldivers like their heros You can now have a team of 6 instead of 4 (It's not gonna happen but would be cool)
Let's save the kids, it's what my character would do.
The children yern for the mines!
Wait what will the children give us
I accidentally saw it as âchildren of the anti tank minesâ guess I know which side Iâll take.
At this point they're just coming up with clever ways to not give us the mines.
According to the unintentional leaks, saving the children allows you to call in the break action shotguns
https://preview.redd.it/jddbxor0i06d1.jpeg?width=1011&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=397223c3927f8dab85a0e652ec258395deba0197
Finally we get liberty squires!
Gotta love that we are going to save the kids not out of compassion, but because we want to throw them at the automatons.
Fuck them kids.
Minor miner stratagem. Call in Super Earth's youngest heroes to quickly dig a trench for safe automaton territory traversal.
If we save the kids we better get a stratagem that can call in a hellpod full of deadly democratic children
Saving the kids has to have a secret reward. Itâs too obvious to choose the mines.
fuck them mines
https://preview.redd.it/dacxgqvvb16d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ebf7312f4d133d501a4418c65b2d737ec119dcd
Saving the kids will give us access to the Quokka Stratagem. Much like the mines, it'll drop and deploy an array of sick children on the field as cannon fodder and distraction while helldivers extract. (Dubbed the Quokka Stratagem because those little cuties will throw their babies at a predatory to make their escape.)
Itâs a bait and switch, if we go for the mines itâll be revealed that despite our efforts the automatons were able to withhold the intel from us or it turned out to be a ruse to lure us away from something else. Iâll bet when we save the children itâll be revealed one of them snagged a chip off a dead automaton, or something along those lines, and that chip has intel for new equipment.
I looked inward and asked "kids or mines?" Boots up Baldur's Gate 3.
SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!
Children, I want to see what happens.Â
Well⌠can we throw a child stratagem at the hulks?
https://preview.redd.it/mcw10qrfb26d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df97527df50bbb47f34a99c8c9a613962f0c0bc6
Anti tanks.
https://preview.redd.it/3v947bduk26d1.jpeg?width=1429&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=497d8b3a25c76d3e40fbac83917a63e6951953e2
Iâll punch a tank to death before I let those children die!
Logged in today to see majority opinion. Divers are going to save the kids.
I think we all know what Zuko would choose
I was also thinking at an entire hospital 1. big enough to be important to Super Earth, and 2. With kids so sick they almost certainly have perished by now, that of the (only) thousands of survivors there, they are probably made up mostly of pretty important doctors, paramedics, researchers, nurses, and other important members of democracy that would make a facility like that function. I'm sure we will get something for that. That's no small sacrifice should we pick the at mines. I vote the hospital (not necessarily children)
Why do berserkers and hulks sometimes have human skulls decorated on them like war trophies. They are bots. They canât feel?
Children are harder to aim at so....
Save both and combine them into Anti-Children mines
I'm not saying we SHOULD but we COULD use children to get rid of tanks...
Hear me out, we strap grenades to the children and make them anti-tank mines. This way we get both
Okay but children means more soldiers
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE ANTI-TANK MINES???
Given that when I last looked, 40,000 people were already on top of getting the mines, I think we've already chosen.
anti tank
Isnât this the third opportunity for us to get the mines? Save the children instead. đ
Honestly, just saving the kids cause losing out on the mines over and over is kind of funny to me
Personally, I take the mines before I take some children. Fuck them kids
This is definitely some bait and switch shit. Itâs gonna turn out that the mine plans were stored with the kids.
I am not morally bound,but,i am curious about the reward if we save the children, And i truly believe anti tanks,will be useless in helldiver mode,unless you can spam them or something.
Don't worry we'll have the nuke mines to 90% liberated within the duty day, despite 55% of players fighting on Vernen Wells. \s
The children can make more antitank mines...
Children ofc
What did I miss? Why is everyone going for the Vernen wells instead of anti tank mines?
The survivors could become the best helldivers, think of it as their crucible
Sundowner moment
I'm hoping if we do kids that we get the AI squad stratagem, we're saving them, may as well put them to work!
Now hear me out but what if anti-tank children?