This page contains information on all minelayers present in Helldivers 2, including: MD-6 Anti-Personnel Minefield, MD-I4 Incendiary Mines, Anti-Tank Mines

Anti-Personnel Minefield Incendiary Mines Anti-Tank Mines Gas Mines Defensive Stratagem Permit MD-6 Anti-Personnel Minefield [1] Deploys a defensive anti-personnel minefield to halt the enemy advance. stats Call-In Time 7.75 Sec Uses Unlimited Cooldown Time 120 Sec traits | Hellpod | Explosive | Medium Armour Penetrating Requirements 1500 lvl 1 Gameplay Anti-Personnel mines explode for 700 damage with AP3. They have a kill-radius of 1.2m and a total effective radius of 5m. A single minelayer pod will scatter 48 mines in a 30m radius around itself, if the area is unobstructed. These mines are most effective against Terminids and Illuminate forces due to their heavy reliance on light chaff. Defensive Stratagem Permit MD-I4 Incendiary Mines [2] Deploys a defensive incendiary minefield, which will set both terrain and targets alight when triggered. stats Call-In Time 7.75 Sec Uses Unlimited Calldown Time 120 Sec traits | Hellpod | Explosive | Incendiary Requirements 4000 lvl 8 Gameplay Anti-Personnel mines explode for 300 damage with AP3. They have a kill-radius of 1.2m and a total effective radius of 5m. Upon detonation, the mine will leave behind a patch of fire, which functions as additional area-denial. A single minelayer pod will scatter 48 mines in a 30m radius around itself, if the area is unobstructed. These mines are most effective against Terminids and Illuminate forces due to their heavy reliance on light chaff. File:Placeholder Clip.mp4 Defensive Stratagem Permit MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines [3] Scatters powerful anti-tank mines that deal heavy, armor-penetrating damage. Minefield is less densely packed relative to smaller mines. stats Call-In Time 7.75 Sec Uses Unlimited Calldown Time 120 Sec traits | Hellpod | Explosive | Anti-Tank Requirements 7000 lvl 15 Gameplay Anti-Tank mines explode for 2000 damage with AP5. They have a kill-radius of 3m and a total effective radius of 7m. Each is powerful enough to severely injure or outright kill most heavies and superheavies. The minelayer pod will saturate a maximum radius of 30m with 18 anti-tank mines. Significantly less than other mine stratagems. Unlike anti-personnel and incendiary mines, AT mines can only be set off by large enemies (those that appear as large dots on the minimap). It will ignore light chaff and humans. This makes it relatively safer to deploy around teammates, as it is much less likely they will accidentally set them off. However, be mindful that friendly exosuits and cars will still set off AT mines, most often to lethal results. Despite their intended purpose, AT mines can be used against lighter infantry aswell, thanks to their relatively wide AoE, by baiting groups into getting near a mine, and shooting them to trigger an explosion. Note that enemies may also do the same, as enemy gunfire and explosions can also set-off AT mines. Anti-Tank Mines can be used for impromptu demolition of some structures by dropping a pod near them and shooting any mines sticking to the target. File:Placeholder Clip.mp4 Defensive Stratagem Permit MD-8 Gas Mines [4] Deploys mines that release gas on activation, temporarily blinding and slowing most enemies.. stats Call-In Time 3 Sec Uses Unlimited Calldown Time 120 Sec traits | Hellpod | Caustic Requirements 12000 lvl 20 Gameplay Gas mines deal minor damage upon explosion. But each mine will release a caustic gas cloud. This will blind all non-superheavy and vehicular enemies and cause them to attack anything in close range, including their teammates. Potentially causing an entire mob to turn on themselves. Helldivers and SEAF allies will only take damage overtime and have their vision obstructed. The minelayer pod will saturate a maximum radius of 30m with 48 gas mines. As gas mines do not deal lethal damage upon being triggered, they are slightly more safer to deploy around teammates, compared to explosive and incendiary mines. But care is still heavily recommended when deploying.

General Tips

• All minefields are dispensed from a minelayer housed inside a Hellpod. The mines are thrown in a spiral pattern some distance from the center, and arm themselves shortly afterward. The pattern is less dense towards the outer edge. Any mines that encounter vertical surfaces will adhere with triggers facing outward.
• Mine stratagems have a fairly quick cooldown time, allowing many minefields to be active at once. Barring any compromises by the game engine in the name of optimization, mines will persist through the remainder of the mission.
• Mines can be set off by nearby explosions, including neighboring mines. Mines can also be set off by corpses of enemies; this sometimes results in a single enemy triggering multiple mines. Mines can also be set off by direct fire or explosions.
  • All mines have no IFF, and will detonate if anything triggers them, this includes other helldivers or civilians.
• Following the initial drop and scattering action, minefields do not draw further aggression from enemies. However, enemies will respond to the sound of any mines detonating near them, possibly attracting the entirety of an undemocratic patrol. Enemies will not intentionally engage with a minelayer, and will often halt while one is dispensing. Such delays can be beneficial to Helldivers attempting to limit undesired encounters.
  • Note that if the minelayer is destroyed mid-deployment, any mines that were not scattered will be lost and will not cause additional damage. It is advisable to throw it in a location where it will have atleast 2 seconds of safety for the minelayer to do it's work.
• Minefields can be thrown in the middle of a cluster of stationary enemies, as more often than not, they will shuffle around as the minelayer scatters mines around them, inevitably causing their own demise.
• Patrols and outpost garrisons can be baited into mines by shooting at them, then running away to have them chase you through a minefield.
  • An alternative ambush strategy is to deploy a mortar sentry in a concealed position, then place a minefield either around the sentry, or the path that enemies will likely take to reach it. This allows you to lead enemies away from a location of interest, while disposing of them at the same time with little risk to yourself.

Trivia

• Mines are best deployed in chokepoints ahead of advancing patrols, and well away from any unfinished objectives or the extraction zone.
• If the mine dispenser is somehow destroyed before the mines can be deployed, the entire batch will be lost.
• Infrequently, mines may attach to unexpected surfaces, posing a threat to players unable to see them from their third-person view.
• The Anti-tank mines are particularly infamous in the community for a running meme where everyone did everything in their power not to get the mines, deliberately squandering 3 separate attempts to obtain them, whenever High Command offered it as a completion reward. It took a fourth attempt to finally get them passed into armories, by requiring the Helldivers to fail in killing 1,500,000 enemies during a major order, rather than the usual requirement to kill a certain amount (and even then, it was likely High Command was going to issue it anyway as a reward if the Helldivers did manage the task).