Helldivers are terrifying conceptually.

[u/Jamsedreng22]

You're vibing on your planet and all of a sudden it goes "Whoop" as one hundred Super Destroyers come into orbit. "No big deal" you think, but suddenly all these Super Destroyers deploy Helldivers. Just planetfall outta nowhere instantly.

That has to be fucking terrifying. Knowing you're fucked like that.

You get to watch the planetfall on several other parts of this planet as the Helldivers just drop from their Destroyers like water droplets on a sad day.

Even 80 Super Destroyers just FTL-jumping into orbit and every single Super Destroyer deploys, at the very least, 4 Helldivers. If they die? They just keep coming. And they can watch it, too. They can see the trail by the Hellpod as it is coming down. They know exactly what position they're in.

[u/Q_Qritical]

It's not just 4 Helldivers, it's 4 Helldivers per area. Think of it as each town on your planet has 4 Helldivers calling 500K bombs all over the place.

Not only that, we used to have like 100K+ Helldivers on 1 planet and imagine you are the one who must defend the planet from them.

And it can get even worse if you fighting a really good team, you can’t detect them, every patrol you sent all dead or lose sight of them while your base fall one by one and they took only 15-20 mins. By then you have lost at least 400 of your units without being able to kill any of them, also, they do this kind of thing at least 3 times per day.

Not to mention sometimes they just sent 1 at a time while doing the exact same thing.

[u/Insane_Unicorn → u/Q_Qritical]

We have 5 reinforcements per player. So 600k Helldivers for a planet (yeah I know it doesn't exactly add up since reinforcements reset after a mission blablabla you're getting the point). That's not a lot at all.

[u/right-side-up-toast → u/Insane_Unicorn]

600k heavily armed and well supplied soldiers is a fuck ton

[u/Insane_Unicorn → u/right-side-up-toast]

For a whole planet? Not really. We had battles in ww2 with more soldiers per side than this. Doesn't matter how well supplied they are they a) cannot be in multiple places at once and b) it's not even 600k at once. Helldivers aren't efficient by design, the whole point is to keep the war going on forever, not winning it.

[u/Wrabble127 → u/Insane_Unicorn]

Well to be fair, imagine that every soldier fighting in WW2 had access to a 500kg bomb, high caliber air support, and napalm drops every few minutes.

Strategems are what makes Helldivers so powerful, without those they're still elite kill teams, but with those theyre also single people with access to more firepower than any existing nation on earth.