Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
51 Achievements
11-13h
Fleet Depleter
Destroy 10000 Gunships Bet you died a lot doing this...
3.6%
How to unlock the Fleet Depleter achievement in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - Definitive Guide
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.
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.
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.
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Happy slaughterfest.
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.
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.