Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon

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Fleet Depleter

Fleet Depleter

Destroy 10000 Gunships Bet you died a lot doing this...

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How to unlock the Fleet Depleter achievement in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - Definitive Guide

Just wanted to post an efficient way to work toward this.

You can play survival mode on the map "Pain Garden". The second wave is always 40 gunships. I just restart after the first two waves. I use the wallagis war hound missile launcher because it locks onto two targets a time. This method is especially useful for people planning to complete the game. By dong this method you will be working toward your 100 and 500 waves played as well as your 10k kills in survival.

An alternate method if you want to grind it out faster is to load up 3-1 and reach the part with the huge drop ship with four circles on the bottom instead of two. This drop ship spawns tons of gunships, just be careful not to shoot at them until the drop ship is closed. If you don't destroy the drop ship it will spawn gun ships until you do.
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12 Jul 2011 12:51

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Would like to know why this was voted negative.
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By Maximus RD on 01 Aug 2011 03:47
good info, im currently doing it on 1-5 leaving the dropship but this is faster to grind thumbs up
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By Defrosted Jay on 02 Aug 2011 21:50
Good guide on the achievement, thanks
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By l DragonBorn l on 05 Aug 2011 11:34
I noticed when I played campaign remix that both dropships in 2-1 spawn gunships. I loaded that level a few times to be sure. I believe that they might spawn at an even faster rate then the giant ship in 3-1. Not enough info for a new solution but you might wanna add it to yours as an additional suggestion.
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By Madtown B on 12 Aug 2011 05:55
Great guide! Oh, and don't worry about the negative vote . I swear there are members that go around voting negative on a bunch of guides just to be d**ks. Anyway, very helpful......thanks :)
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By on 14 Aug 2011 04:10
I'd like to add that a great way to kill the gunships on 3-1 is to use the Tactical's bullet turret. Since it's a hitscan item, the gunships will go down extremely quick on Normal when leveled up to max. All you have to do is place the turret somewhere near the dropship, and you don't have to pick up the controller until the turret runs out. The turret won't reach the dropship spots either, so the ship will never blow up unless you do it yourself. The biggest problem is when the ships die and land on you...sometimes they launch you 184971384713 feet away, making you run all the way back to the dropship. But, you can do something else while using this grinding method.
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By New Paralyzer on 30 Aug 2011 03:03
Good add Bruk360! Thank you very much :)
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By DynamiteJavvy on 01 Sep 2011 12:26
Did this in no time on 3-1. Used Tactical with T-21 Nungus. Great solution, thanks!
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By WeisGuy9 on 04 Apr 2012 08:39
same as ghost, i used tactical with shotgun, used the machine gun turret too as it doesn't take out the dropship.
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By JPG30 on 05 Aug 2012 11:20
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After reading the comments to the other solution, I "discovered" a way to (mostly) rubberband this achievement.

Credit to Madtown B for info: In 2-1 Remix, both ships spawn gunships.

Credit to Cartoon Ghost for info: Cavatrix 12 kills gunships easily

0. Use maxed tactical with Cavatrix 12 (lower level might work, if you have an appropriate weapon; different class maybe).
1. Start 2-1 Remix NORMAL with no AI.
2. Kill the beginning enemies (some metal spiders and wasps). Be careful not to shotgun the carriers. (If one of the dropships drops spiders, restart until both drop gunshipns)
3. Jump in the river, next to the bridge, on the side of the bridge away from the carriers.
4. Aim up, roughly, and rubberband the trigger. Check-in every once in a while to make sure your health isn't too low.

The bridge between you and the carriers prevent the gunships from making strafing runs on you; it also prevents you from shooting the carrier down. Also, since you kill the gunships while they are going away from you, they usually won't crash into you.
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19 Sep 2011 00:52

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This is working great! Instead of the bridge you spawn close to, I found the one far away down the river you need to run for a while to works better. The ships hardly every stop on a dime at just the right spot to have a shot on you, without you locking onto them. The only way I take damage is from a very specific angle when they stop and aim at about an 85 degree angle, just passed the bridge, which hardly ever happens.
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By Blue Radium on 20 Jul 2021 19:57
Thanks for the good strategy. I actually used this for the Daddy Warbugs achievement with a turbo controller to grind out credits to buy the weapons.
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By WeisGuy9 on 05 Jun 2012 09:15
This is working well for me, just an extra tip which I'm finding useful. There is a tank right at the start of the level, park this infront of you, with the bridge behind you and you take about half damage so you don't need to check in as often. Don't forget to keep your sheild up too, I can leave it alone for about an hour and a half without worrying.
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By Lainey80 on 12 Jan 2013 19:15
Thanks for posting this. I only had about 2,500 gunship kills and have finished just about everything - so I was worried about the grind. Leaving it to work while I watched some television was an awesome turn of events!
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By eohjay on 27 Jan 2014 13:22
This method is perfect, I used the battle armor which allows you to rubber band LT as well to use the shield, so the gunships crashing into you deal no damage, while using an auto missile launcher on the gunships on Inferno.
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By GsO Light on 07 Apr 2021 21:12
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I busted out my last 4k for this on lvl 1-3(on the run) in about 1 1/2 hours.
My setup-
Jet lvl 8 with goatshrike 110e
Difficulty - hard(so ships are one hit kills and you get some decent cred)
Bots - off.

In 1-3 the second firebase you get routed to has a carrier that drops between 10-12 gunships. (Your comm will say there is a straggler)
You'll have to be careful to not desroy the carrier as there are some spiders and ants you'll have to take care of before you go after kill mining.
If you manage that back yourself up in the direction of the starting point and aim about halfway between the ground and carrier. Wait for the carrier to drop enough gunships so that your weapon doesn't lock onto it and start blowing them away.

Please comment before a neg vote.

Happy slaughterfest.
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Gunships are the smaller aircraft that fly around and occasionally hover to fire a direct beam at you. They are fast and difficult to hit, but if you lead your shots right or hit them when they do stop to hover they are easy to kill with one or two hits. Missile launchers are great against these enemies because most of them have an autolock feature. Getting 10,000 Gunship kills will take a few playthroughs to get, but isn't difficult to do so much as it is a long grind. Gunships will appear at random and at times drop from Carriers.

Any of the maps in survival mode offer a great way to rack up kills. See Good Start for details on where certain enemies are located and in what map/wave.

Additionally:

Found a fantastic location to grind this one (and points in general). In Chapter 3, Mission 1, the counter-attack is basically giant carriers (amount depends on difficulty) that spawn tons of gunships and are easy to destroy. There are a few ants and wasps at first, but once those are out of the way, it's just hundreds of gunships. I killed about 800 in about 15 minutes of grinding!

They drop a TON of health as well, so dying shouldn't be anything to fear.

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You'll likely only get about 250 of these during a Campaign run, and not a whole lot during Survival either. However, at the end of Chapter 3, Mission 1 you can avoid killing the carrier for unlimited spawns of over a dozen each time. You can get nearly 1000/hour if you're efficient enough, using one of the homing missile launchers and deployable turrets with the Tactical armor. Play on Normal with no bots for quicker kills.

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