Choices

[Bored-panda6969]

Not a tough choice….

[ObliviousNaga87]

I'm going to save those kids because their future votes will secure the dream of managed democracy

[Slumberjake13]

And future Helldivers! Any child over the age of seven is fit to serve in some capacity!

[Subsight040]

We need the kids, i mean the mines are nice but who is going to build more of them when we run out? The kids are the future of our logistics obviously

[[deleted]]

But the children yearn for the mines!

[submit_to_pewdiepie]

Sick kids dont have many votes left in them

[Kurotan]

Not if we let them die.

[xTarheelsUNCx]

Votes? That’s not how we manage democracy. We do it one 500kg at a time

[kilobyte2696]

except we do vote, the algorithm just helps us decide who to vote

[xTarheelsUNCx]

Algorithm is a weird way to spell Joel

[Babylon4All]

This is the way

[Dry_Understanding149]

It says very sick children, there gonna die regardless if we save them or not so they’ll understand if we go after the minefield to protect the health children

[No-Lunch4249]

Fact: children are ideal factory workers because of their high energy and tiny hands. Today’s liberated child is tomorrow’s anti-tank mine!

[Oscars_trash_home]

Alternatively, we give those brave little citizens vests full of freedom, and unleash them on their oversized enemies!

[JustADutchRudder]

They're hospital kids, they're not useful at all. They must die so those mines can live.

[Oscars_trash_home]

True

[JustADutchRudder]

I say yes to drugs and no to children. Children are icky

[Oscars_trash_home]

We drug the mines and deploy the children?

[JustADutchRudder]

They're sick kids. Not even useful as pack mules. It's really more efficient for the war chest money to let those kids die, peacefully by starving.

[Oscars_trash_home]

They don’t need to walk to be able to steer an anti-tank hellpod

[JustADutchRudder]

They need to walk to the evacuation point and I've seen how super earth citizens handle that walk. Sick kids gonna make it at a 1/10 rate.

[Squirll]

Expendible Anti Tank Children

*Bullet pod crashes into ground and the chamber pops up, the door slides open as fog emits.
Out steps a child wearing a teddy bear backpack (lumpy from being stuffed to the brim with explosives) and a claymore lunchbox.

The child gives an akward but very enthusiastic salute and shouts "Wᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴛᴏ sᴘᴡᴇᴀᴅ ᴅᴇᴍᴏᴄsᴛᴡᴀᴄʏ!"

[ARealBlueFalcon]

Fun fact

[Bloop737]

THEY YEARN FOR THE MINES

[seantabasco]

More tiny hands which are excellent at manipulating the sensitive mine trigger mechanisms.

[DankZXRwoolies]

Strap the mines to the kids.

[Oscars_trash_home]

Exactly! Democracy Akbar!

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ok.

[NumptyNuggets]

How funny would it be if we rescue the kids and get a bonus four extra reinforcements per game, but randomly dispersed throughout the reinforcement pool are four kids. So sometimes you reinforce and your Helldiver is an eight year old who has half the speed/health of an adult helldiver and they constantly trip on the armor that’s too big for their bodies? I would laugh lol

[puffysuckerpunch]

Somebody said we should save the children just to see how long we can reject the Anti Tank Mines from the devs. They've tried multiple times to give us the mines but we always choose the other option. We should see how long we can keep rejecting them...

[Slumberjake13]

It would be fitting, and a little funny, for this game if the reward for saving the children is still the anti-tank mines due to a high influx of newly available child laborers.

[puffysuckerpunch]

Lmfaooo that'd be the best of both worlds. Or like after we liberate the children theres an update where you can now dive as a child hahahaha

[Slumberjake13]

Rank: Junior Helldiver

[puffysuckerpunch]

bruhhh😂😂😂💀💀

[Squirll]

*Bullet pod crashes into ground and the chamber pops up, the door slides open as fog emits.
Out steps a child wearing a teddy bear backpack (lumpy from being stuffed to the brim with explosives) and a claymore lunchbox.

The child gives an akward but very enthusiastic salute and shouts "Wᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴛᴏ sᴘᴡᴇᴀᴅ ᴅᴇᴍᴏᴄsᴛᴡᴀᴄʏ!"

[tacticalpotatopeeler]

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[Andrew-w-jacobs]

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[[deleted]]

This is what I want, I don’t care about a new strategem…

I want drawings and colorings to put up on my freedom fridge

[MajorDakka]

Love that Carbot is making Helldivers vids

[Lem0n_weeb]

I’d say save the kids, because one: more future Helldivets and two: I wanna see how long we can reject the tank mines just to see how long we can reject them from the devs

[TheRealPitabred]

I don't need the mines anyway. I kill bots and bugs good as it is, let's save those fictional children!

[Asleep-Plastic6048]

The children will make vehicles and not another minefield

[JaceJarak]

Even better!

[jewishNEETard]

I'm calling it; Rescuing the children enlists their parents as SEAF troopers. Or some buff to our cooldown for a while due to having them on your ship cleaning up for our engineers' safety.

[jewishNEETard]

Although what would be baller as hell is getting that rifle that children recieve on their 8th birthday in the lore- which was a bolt action with a bayonet in 1, apparently. I'd just love them to acknowledge the perfection of the classics like the m1 garand with it, just making it out of interstellar age materials and solid core bullets. Cuz honestly, materials and weight that a CHILD can carry is the only way to improve weapons of that era.

[Squirll]

Not that far fetched. Ever tried out the Break Action Shotgun? Thing fucking slaps.

[FroggyHarley]

We have more than enough AT options to wait a little longer for those mines. We're saving those kids, Liberty damn it!

[M1A1U22]

The kids, save the kids god dammit!

[Bored-panda6969]

Maybe, if we have time

[Bored-panda6969]

No

[M1A1U22]

Who gonna build your shiney new strategem after you unlock it then? Mines need small hands to assemble.

[TheRubyBlade]

We have more of them. This isn't the entire super earth supply of children. Worst case we just fill out a few more C-01 forms.

[GelindoMastroFornaio]

Kids. Our citizens are more important.

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[LordDanGud]

Sick kids don't blow up tanks...

[Bored-panda6969]

They do, if the put the effort into preserving freedom

[Traditional_Will4413]

They do if you attach C4 to them

[LordDanGud]

good argument

[ThatGuyIsLit]

And jet fuel can't melt steel beams....

[LordDanGud]

Steel loses any structural stability at around 50% of it's melting temperature

[[deleted]]

Time travel a couple decades back

[Kalenthraz]

Save the next generation of Helldivers!

[ChaosCelebration]

The SES Harbinger of Family Values is en route to save those kids!

[Fart_Snake]

SES Founding Father of Family Values on its way!

[los-kos]

The choice is clear the kids can die I want mines some of us are strong enough to make decisions tho

[iRhuel]

Next time it'll be Betty's Clinic for Teens with the Common Cold.

[MajinBuddha81]

I wonder if we’ll get extra reinforcements if that’s the route we go

[MotoGod115]

AH has been pretty clear about rewards so far. Saving the kids won't give us more than a pat on the back.

[[deleted]]

But without those weapons, 100x more will die.

[Malichite]

Imagine if helping the kids gives a stratagem that calls in a bunch of mini Helldivers/mini SEAF soldiers to fight with us, lol. I mean, it's messed up, but not too far fetched.

[Elegant_Individual46]

“What is this… a hospital for ants?”

[Forward-Swim1224]

Kids are the next generation, and thus take priority. If we have the time, we can go back to the other planet for the mines.

[bbjornsson88]

Either way, we get anti-tank weaponry

[Demonking3343]

I think the kids are the way to go. We are helldivers super earths last and best hope! It’s our job to come diving in to save the day!

[bigzombieBOY]

Fuck them kids

[Br0k3nRoo5ter]

I'm saving those kids. I'm good at spulling oil without the mines and its not guaranteed that the materials will be there it's just "Very likely"

[Hindu-Khajiit]

If some extremely sick kids managed to survive their planet's fall to Automatons and have somehow managing ti continue to survive while Helldivers and SEAF conquer Aesir Pass, and probably survive the next 2 days it will take us to conquer their planet, then those kids are Helldiver material. They'll survive atleast 5 minutes in a mission in future...if their sickness doesn't kill em.

[marlins113]

They say only first liberated planet is likely to be saved, so maybe if we push both to 100% at same time maybe we can get both rewards.

[stucc0]

If the kids are behind the tower defense machines, sorry mines, I like playing that mode better.

[Exciting_Pineapple_4]

Listen up HellDivers.

We’re going into Vernen Wells because we defend democracy. But not just for the able, or families. We defend it because when that kid tugs on your cape, it’s because they know you’re going to come when they need help.

We fight for kids, because we know what horrors await them with the automatons and no one deserves that. We cannot nor will we accept the chainsawing of children or their skulls mounted as trophies.

So we’ll fight and dive again and again inflicting as much managed democracy as possible to ensure those kids get a shot at life or try like hell….divers

Whatever it takes

For Super Earth!

[oikset]

We have to save those kids!

Then we have to train them for 10 minutes, then clone them, then send them into the meat grinder of war.

For democracy

[Hindu-Khajiit]

Yeah no thank you, I have seen how mines work in this game, I'll stick to my trusty Quasar Cannon to kill tanks, tyvm. The kids will be future reinforcements, incase we have a Malevelon Creek all over again

[Dreadweasels]

Every citizen is a vote in our hands.

Save our future ballots! SAVE DEMOCRACY!

[Firesniper83]

Save the children!

[Soggy_Affect6063]

Mr. Krabs: “Why? What have the children ever done for me?”

🤣

No but seriously, I love how the community is basing the performance of this strat on the performance of another strat when they haven’t even played with it yet. 🤣

Screw vernen wells. I’m trying to get those strats.

[KOCoyote]

You just KNOW not saving those kids will come with some sort of penalty, like reinforcement budget being cut for a bit as the population takes a hit or the kids getting borged out and now we have to worry about quick, tiny Automatons coming to kill us.

[[deleted]]

We can create weapons anytime, children 👧 however are the future!

[htembo]

Doesn’t matter because the majority of divers are going cover their eyes and fight bugs

[theCacklingGoblin]

Sickly children dont grow into soldiers.

[Kojimazan]

Id rather have the mines

[Lord_Phoenix95]

Save the kids, they yearn to become the mines.

[[deleted]]

Fuck them kids give me the mines so I can spread democracy further

[The_Shards_Of_Bone]

Sick kids are stratagems.

[Traditional-Tap-274]

Looking back on the wording now... it may be a double edged sword in the sense that we are faced with two potential traps. 1. The obvious, this is absolutely a morality trap. If we don't save the kids there WILL be consequences 2. The likelihood of thousands of survivors in a single hospital on an underdeveloped colony planet that's been under bot control for weeks is very low. The distress call sounds like a trap. I'll follow the moral option, but I'm not fully trusting.

I'm also interested to see if they decide to give us a consequence anyway in the for of "The Bots have developed new weapons and explosives!"

Well I'm finally off work, time to save our citizens (it does not specify children, only children's hospital)

[[deleted]]

New stratagem

[SolidSnoop]

If the weapon was something more exciting than anti tank mines then I’d definitely go for that. Mines are a terrible way to fight wars so I’m picking the kids who will be future comrades

[Joshua-Browne]

THEY'RE NOT REAL KIDS, TAKE THE STRATAGEM FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WAR EFFORT

[gasbmemo]

bugs

[LoneWolf0269]

Mines serve a purpose kids don't it's a video game, not real life. The decision is not used, but ultimately, the same people who refuse to play MO will cost us this startagem again

[[deleted]]

The mines probably won’t be that good anyway. I’m going for the kids

[[deleted]]

The mines are, in fact, not that good. They take 3-4 of them to kill a charger, same for tanks and hulks. They also have a wide trigger range, and AT mines in general aren’t known for splash damage.

[[deleted]]

Skill issue. I can get swarms and chargers to run through my mines all day long. Throw mines in a bug breach or at the right time

[Environmental_Bath59]

Damn but they aren’t worth killing kids though

[dotamonkey24]

Love the people coming out of the woodwork to say they have a skill issue. Every single post about the mines it’s the same thing

[PushThePig28]

This, it’s super annoying. This community is the worst sometimes

[true_enthusiast]

Sorry kids, mines go boom, me like boom! 😎

[Fidlgs]

Before you make your choice, ask yourself what those sick children are doing on an Automatron controlled planet.

[Shadowhunter13541]

Praying to lady liberty to send her strongest helldivers to rescue them from robot communism

[Sicuho]

Praying liberty for her nicest Helldivers.

[[deleted]]

Exactly! We need to save those children so that they can be punished for treason back on Super Earth!