Every attempt to land on a tank has resulted in the tank not dying in my experience. This is however a double edged sword, as it means you can plant a hellbomb on top of them.
Aim for the heatsink
Wait, you can plant hellbombs near any tank?
No no, the tanks don't enable hellbomb drops, BUT, if they happen to be near an area that does you can deploy them on top of the tank. Since the initial impact doesn't kill the tank usually.
Fabricators and mushrooms are my personal favorite targets
I'm also a big fan of smashing the cannon turrets.
I’m always calling in reinforcements, resupplies, and even the SOS beacon on top of fabricators. They re like free strategems!
That's why I always bring an EAT for the hellpod.
It took me like 7 hours to realize you meant that you use the hellpod of the EAT offensively, taking advantage of its short cool down.
yah, but like, im going in for those EATs.
Tanks are one of the few enemies NOT damaged by hellpods. They are effectively mobile terrain, you can mount sentries and supply drops to them. If you cover the red 'eye' on the mantlet (plate the cannon sticks out of) you actually blind them and they basically can not attack you save driving over you when they hear footsteps.
They take damage from them. Two hellpods landing on the turret will kill a tank
Yeah well I tried this yesterday… it did not go well. I somehow clipped through the tank and merged inside it from my pod, the tank unharmed. I couldn’t hurt it from the inside, so I had to try and wiggle myself out. That didn’t work, so I tried calling in my support weapon on the tank in the holes that that would kill it.
It didn’t. It stuck on TOP of the tank (my teammates were laughing heartily at my situation at this point, and gleefully told me this). Finally I gave up and asked my team to kill it. It took a first hit, and I then got out somehow! And then I was immediately crushed beneath its treads.
I made sure to land well away from it the next time.
Sounds like a great game of Helldivers
Oh yeah, it was awesome!
Oh, I just did this like 10 minutes ago. It worked OK.
Just ok? You get murdered immediately after?
There were three next to each other. One shot got killed by the other two, one I grenaded, the last one spun me off and shot me across the map. highly recommneded
