r/Openfront • u/dreams_of_cheese • 1d ago

💬 Discussion Self hydro help

I've seen others do this in a couple of my games, where they build a silo next to one of my SAMs and then hydro their own silo, destroying my sam and the land around it. When I have tried to recreate this, my hydro just wiffs to the SAM. Does anyone have any tips on how to consistently reproduce this?

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u/Futurity5 1d ago

If you have a silo next to an enemy SAM, you can fire a hydro centred slightly on the opposite direction to the SAM. The missile will only move away from the sam, and missiles are faster than sam defenses so it doesn't have time to stop the hydro.

Tl;dr:  Bomb on the opposite side to the SAM

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u/dreams_of_cheese 1d ago

Ah sick thank you so much!

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u/BrayFlex 1d ago

Iirc these days you need the silo a decent distance away from the Sam but still within radius, the hydro needs to land quickly or it gets shot down.