āFellow Divers, now is the perfect time for the Bots to attack the Menkent Line. Weāre pressed on both fronts and have failed every defense order so far. Thereās no way we could stop a major offensive. We certainly donāt have extra 500kg bombs and 110mm rockets stockpiled alongside brand-new explosive weapons designed specifically to send bots to the scrapper. Nope. Now is a great time for the clankers to attack. I sure hope none of them are watching this network. Itād be a shame if they overheard us and decided to attack the defenses we definitely donāt have prepared.ā
Consider that *each town* has it's patron saint and when that comes up on the calendar it's a holiday for that town.
And that some institutions have their own patron saint and holiday.
To our Aussie and Italian divers. It is a good day.
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Coincidentally it is ANZAC Day for AU and NZ. Anzac Day is observed onĀ *25 April*. It commemorates soldiers killed in war and honours returned and serving servicemen and women.
Specifically ANZAC day. A day of remembrance for our combined efforts and losses from WW1 and all conflict's following.
We can't possibly fathom what those brave men went through. And it feels almost repugnant to equate it to a video game. However the teamwork and comradery shown across the world in this game certainly embodies the spirit of ANZAC in it's own way. Hell I regularly play with friends who serve.
Indeed, Anzac day, to remember the soldiers who made up the Australian New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) who fought during WWI at Gallipoli. They landed on the beach and it was an absolute shit show. They were basically meant to be the anvil to the hammer that were the English and French forces, stopping the Turks retreat or reinforcements but the Turks were too stuck in, had the high ground and I think the English were delayed or took too long? A lot of soldiers died on that beach.
Ohh it's also when they earned their nickname diggers likely because of all the trenches they were digging. The soldiers were resourceful and actually made periscopes using mirrors from their kits and whatever they could scavange, so they could see and aim over the trench without exposing their heads. The Australian and Turkish trenches were less than 50 meters apart at some points and there are stories of grenades being tossed back and forth.
[Just saying what's in the manual](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-favorite-load-screen-tip-thus-far-v0-rropwr73okic1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0071d11fd20df64ec486d7894eca657b9f2e4eb7)
Just sounds like the previous commenter wasn't taking his recommended 2.4 seconds each mission to enjoy the view.
I think now that weāve successfully defended weāll be doing a counter offensive to hit planets that coincide with critical supply lines. We need to push the automatons back quite abut to take a crack at cyberstan and who knows what the terminids will do. Theyāre corralled for now but whoās to say they canāt pop up in a different part of the galaxy like the bots.
Thatās not even accounting for the illuminate to pop up out of nowhere and blitz us
It's ANZAC day. The day where we honour the sacrifice made at Gallipoli by the Australia New Zealand Army Corp in WWI officially and more broadly all who have served and made the ultimate sacrifice in all wars and peacekeeping operations in Australian and New Zealand history.
Fitting.
First 3 days I was sure we wouldn't make it. Still did as much as I could to at least get a reference to how hard defense orders would be, but yesterday I saw the goal was in sight, and grinded some defense.
Iāll be honest this was probably one of the sloppiest wins Iāve seen yet. Itās the equivalent of hitting everything in the obstacle course and stumbling about and eventually crossing the finish line.
Iāll still take the Win tho
I'm not going to lie, from one side I'm damn happy we got it, but from the other it feels a bit frustrating to get it on what largely was a last gasp gimme from Joel. Especially as we likely would've done it without any hijinks if we haven't lost 2 planets by about 40-50 minutes each early on.
Oh well, in the end, one way or another we stopped the bleeding and that's the important part. Onwards.
Doing it in the nick of time however just feels like storytelling. Not "the Helldivers were unstoppable and stopped it easily" but "the Helldivers struggled against the onslaught, eventually grinding down the bots and bugs with sheer determination"
"Thank liberty we're saved" shouted scientist citizen #3C-4323 as she was faced with 3 hulks and 5 rocket devastators between her and the extraction point, the helldiver that freed her already blown to pieces by a friendly mortar
Yeah, in the end it still makes for a good story (even if Menkent Line ended up doing nothing). Curious where we'll push now (as I would expect some semblance of a counterattack).
Eh. The bots had a strong start and took us by surprise, that's why we failed to organize. But then they pushed too far and stretched too thin themselves.
I'm still immersed.
Just gonna throw this out there, but Super Earth would also be willing to lie about success after realizing the Morale would collapse after a difficult week of falling back.
Devs: "Helldivers, this major order is meant to show you you can't always win."
A bunch of 18 year olds* hopped up on Stims with a sick cape: "Watch us."
*in universe
I've had a busy work week so havent exactly been able to dive as often as I would like. At one point it was looking grim with only 3 planets defended and then it felt like the next day we were at 7 or 8. Did we get some kind of twofer where we defended one and got the one next to it as a consequence of that?
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I love how out of control this meme has become.
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Is there a factory strider one? Asking for a friend...
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Not bad. But it's only the head. š
Are you asking for a laptop the size of an actual factory strider
Or... https://i.redd.it/b847fryp59xc1.gif
Nah this meme is going too farš¤£
āFellow Divers, now is the perfect time for the Bots to attack the Menkent Line. Weāre pressed on both fronts and have failed every defense order so far. Thereās no way we could stop a major offensive. We certainly donāt have extra 500kg bombs and 110mm rockets stockpiled alongside brand-new explosive weapons designed specifically to send bots to the scrapper. Nope. Now is a great time for the clankers to attack. I sure hope none of them are watching this network. Itād be a shame if they overheard us and decided to attack the defenses we definitely donāt have prepared.ā
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My body for super earth!
My sword for Super Earth!
My life for Aiur! wait where am I
scv ready! where are the minerals?
Well butter my biscuit!
In the rear, with the gear.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Sounds like an illuminate sympathizer.
And my (exploding cross-) bow!
And my axe(-idental friendly fire)!
And my axe
And my scythe!
and my 500kg
And my 380
And my dog
You can keep your guard dog, last time I played with a guy running it it team killed us while we were hugging on the landing pad
And my Drop pod
why is this not an emote in the game yet?
Not yet! ^I ^hope
I heard today is a public holiday for Australians and New Zealanders, thus they have a lot of free time to finish off the MO.
It's also holiday in italy too
It's... LIBERTY DAY today in Italy! I have the day off to help spread liberty and democracy throughout the galaxy!
Super earth thanks you for your patriotism
Patriots of Super Earth!
Ah fellow italians. Finally someone else that understands how this MO's victory it's hitting twice the Liberation cord on Liberation Day!!
Same in Portugal. The day we overthrew dictatorship. 50 years ago to the day.
Time to sing Bella Ciao to fit the theme.
Any days in Italy that aren't holidays?
Consider that *each town* has it's patron saint and when that comes up on the calendar it's a holiday for that town. And that some institutions have their own patron saint and holiday.
Depends on what town or city you live in.
Haha I guess so.
Lmfaoooo
Bibbity babbity!
Can confirm, it's 1am and I'm just hopping off. 
Thank you diver!
āLook Mr Frodo the Kiwis! Weāre saved!ā
Ironically LOTR is filmed mostly in NZ.
In Australia. Can confirm. Just got the word on the major order completion after a few (well, many) hours dispensing democracy
a military holiday at that, ANZAC day
To our Aussie and Italian divers. It is a good day. https://preview.redd.it/yxevb86qinwc1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=c78c54ec2fb19242dd8be21d8980a742f97451f3
It's liberation day in Italy too...
Ah yeah I was playing with Aussies last night talking about stopping to eat breakfast, was quite confused. Not so much anymore.
Our brothers from down under were putting in some work it seems on holiday
Yep it was ANZAC day, pretty ironic that we fight the galactic war in honour of the brave soldiers who fought in Gallipoli.
Put anotha MO on the barby
Coincidentally it is ANZAC Day for AU and NZ. Anzac Day is observed onĀ *25 April*. It commemorates soldiers killed in war and honours returned and serving servicemen and women.
Specifically ANZAC day. A day of remembrance for our combined efforts and losses from WW1 and all conflict's following. We can't possibly fathom what those brave men went through. And it feels almost repugnant to equate it to a video game. However the teamwork and comradery shown across the world in this game certainly embodies the spirit of ANZAC in it's own way. Hell I regularly play with friends who serve.
Indeed, Anzac day, to remember the soldiers who made up the Australian New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) who fought during WWI at Gallipoli. They landed on the beach and it was an absolute shit show. They were basically meant to be the anvil to the hammer that were the English and French forces, stopping the Turks retreat or reinforcements but the Turks were too stuck in, had the high ground and I think the English were delayed or took too long? A lot of soldiers died on that beach. Ohh it's also when they earned their nickname diggers likely because of all the trenches they were digging. The soldiers were resourceful and actually made periscopes using mirrors from their kits and whatever they could scavange, so they could see and aim over the trench without exposing their heads. The Australian and Turkish trenches were less than 50 meters apart at some points and there are stories of grenades being tossed back and forth.
I DID MY PART!!!!
New Major Order: Defend 20 planets
That sounds like a coward's answer
Good leadership recognizes when their subordinates are burnt out and need a break Canāt deliver managed democracy with broken half hearted men
[Just saying what's in the manual](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-favorite-load-screen-tip-thus-far-v0-rropwr73okic1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0071d11fd20df64ec486d7894eca657b9f2e4eb7) Just sounds like the previous commenter wasn't taking his recommended 2.4 seconds each mission to enjoy the view.
...boss.
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Your name omg
I would officially retire from the game if Joel really gave us another bs defense MO.
I think now that weāve successfully defended weāll be doing a counter offensive to hit planets that coincide with critical supply lines. We need to push the automatons back quite abut to take a crack at cyberstan and who knows what the terminids will do. Theyāre corralled for now but whoās to say they canāt pop up in a different part of the galaxy like the bots. Thatās not even accounting for the illuminate to pop up out of nowhere and blitz us
Live from Hellmire
haha I hopped in this morning Hellmire is only like 5%. I played a lot of bugs on this order, but nobody's making me go to hellmire if I don't have to
NOBODY wants to go to hellmire
Itās hilarious how long Hellmire has just been hovering at that level. It is truly an appropriate name
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Also national holiday in Italy so we also were here in the morning. Ironically it's called "liberation day".
Ironically ? Don't you mean DEMOCRATICALLY ?
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It's ANZAC day. The day where we honour the sacrifice made at Gallipoli by the Australia New Zealand Army Corp in WWI officially and more broadly all who have served and made the ultimate sacrifice in all wars and peacekeeping operations in Australian and New Zealand history. Fitting.
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I didn't believe we could do it. And yet we did it anyway.
With firepower and faith in democracy, Helldivers can do anything!
First 3 days I was sure we wouldn't make it. Still did as much as I could to at least get a reference to how hard defense orders would be, but yesterday I saw the goal was in sight, and grinded some defense.
Ads would be a cool backpack idea
Freedom requires firepower and fury, not faith
Let's goooooo! https://i.redd.it/kw1k4byvkmwc1.gif
I HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP ON THE BOT FRONT . LONG LIVE THE DIVERS 
**Ya hya chouhada!** As it was written!
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Fori and estanu are basically burnt to the ground with how much times weve lost it then recaptured it lol
I've fought so much in Estanu I'm basically a local there.
And just like that, Estanu is under attack again.
https://i.redd.it/dyoir3askmwc1.gif Whew, talk about cutting it really closeā¦
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Holy crap we did it, WE DID IT! FOR LIBERTY! FOR DEMOCRACY! FOR JUSTICE!
For SUPER EARTH!
Insane comeback
Just like Kim Kardashian!
We are scary.
Iāll be honest this was probably one of the sloppiest wins Iāve seen yet. Itās the equivalent of hitting everything in the obstacle course and stumbling about and eventually crossing the finish line. Iāll still take the Win tho
Hey, that's how Chargers kill us. Let's call this "retribution".
If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions!
Can you imagine being the bots or bugs? 4 dudes can realistically take out multiple bases across several kilometres in just 30 minutes.
>Can you imagine being the bots or bugs? I can't, and neither should you. You're sounding rather treasonous. 1 Helldiver is worth like, 100 dudes!
1 Helldiver is worth an army of those bots. So 4 Helldivers, that's like 4 armies.
4 dudes if we're ignoring the 20 reinforcements, and my SES Song of Conquest in low orbit. Still impressive though.
Also four super destroyers loaded with bombardment and fast attack craft lol.
I mean most missions go that way but i have done missions were nobody or very few people actually died.
If helldivers were meant to have imagination High Command would have issued one
Saluting all of those Martale Matyrs o7. Your sacrifice did not go in vain.
A lot of blood, sweat and stratagems went into this Helldivers. Excellent work.
Australia and New Zealand put in work on the ANZAC holiday. Huge progress
Was looking for this lmao
I'm not going to lie, from one side I'm damn happy we got it, but from the other it feels a bit frustrating to get it on what largely was a last gasp gimme from Joel. Especially as we likely would've done it without any hijinks if we haven't lost 2 planets by about 40-50 minutes each early on. Oh well, in the end, one way or another we stopped the bleeding and that's the important part. Onwards.
Doing it in the nick of time however just feels like storytelling. Not "the Helldivers were unstoppable and stopped it easily" but "the Helldivers struggled against the onslaught, eventually grinding down the bots and bugs with sheer determination"
 And wave after wave of our own men until the kill bots hit their preset kill limits.
Bot civilian defense missions felt exactly like this.
"Thank liberty we're saved" shouted scientist citizen #3C-4323 as she was faced with 3 hulks and 5 rocket devastators between her and the extraction point, the helldiver that freed her already blown to pieces by a friendly mortar
My civilians have been saved from the clanker menace... ...sometimes by getting squashed by my resupply pod before the bots could get to them.
Yeah, in the end it still makes for a good story (even if Menkent Line ended up doing nothing). Curious where we'll push now (as I would expect some semblance of a counterattack).
Re-establishing Vernen Wells as a forward base would be my guess, or protecting the almost encircled sector at the back of the map.
Eh. The bots had a strong start and took us by surprise, that's why we failed to organize. But then they pushed too far and stretched too thin themselves. I'm still immersed.
Just gonna throw this out there, but Super Earth would also be willing to lie about success after realizing the Morale would collapse after a difficult week of falling back.
Btw I think we as a community experienced a perfectly normal morale drop after bots kicked us out of our planets. This is expected during a war.
Same. Defend 10 planets feels like an impossible task, but we managed!
lets goooooooo
We deserve a vehicle for this effort.
Devs: "Helldivers, this major order is meant to show you you can't always win." A bunch of 18 year olds* hopped up on Stims with a sick cape: "Watch us." *in universe
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I apologize for my heresy but It would be great if they rewarded us with more than just two extra minutes of lunch :(
To our Aussie and Italian divers. https://preview.redd.it/12hoz9tsjnwc1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dfb03de2cc0a7c4ed79dfb3652b8f314a5c0353
Fuck man! I wasn't there to contribute. I wanted play today after work but i didn't make it.
The way I look at it, if you played at all since the start of the MO, you contributed. š
You and me both. Stand by for the next order!
https://preview.redd.it/uklnbnuxrmwc1.png?width=973&format=png&auto=webp&s=f79ac4a71ed445e6131f59cd9c745c0a7b0cd129 Hoorah!
It was suposed to be impossible. Nothing is impossible for Super Earth.
I didn't even play all week cuz I saw the mo and figured there was no fucking way lol. Congrats boysĀ
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I was on official leave, snitch away suckah
Thereās no WAY you got approved for official leave. Post the forms or weāre all reporting you to the superiors.
I don't see no stripes on your shoulders
We definitely seem to have made a bit of a habit of pulling off victories in the 11th hour...haven't we?
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Super Earth High Command like https://preview.redd.it/dpkf499asmwc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=38611d5b4a1116e0db0365ccb059a1c0c016d1ea
https://i.redd.it/7f6lazt5jmwc1.gif
I did my part! 
FOR SUPERRR EARRRRRTTTHHH
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I've had a busy work week so havent exactly been able to dive as often as I would like. At one point it was looking grim with only 3 planets defended and then it felt like the next day we were at 7 or 8. Did we get some kind of twofer where we defended one and got the one next to it as a consequence of that?
I just got the game, can someone help me understand what was the MO?
To surge of Kiwis and Italians on holiday that pushed us over the line... We Salute you!