Floating bases are very annoying. They kill positive impression from the game. I hate floating ♥♥♥♥, that’s why I performed one small investigation regarding wall, platform, and storage durability against different kinds of melee weapon and guns.

Do you know how many hits you need to destroy one wall or platform? Or maybe a storage? Let us consider Axe, Pickaxe, and Knife. Here is the table where you may find the number of hits you need to destroy the given base part.

*Walls and platforms have similar HP (Health Power).

Obviously, Axe gives the maximum damage, and Knife delivers two times less damage than Pickaxe. But Knife is much faster. It is not related to our goal but let me estimate the time efficiency of Axe, Pickaxe, and Knife. We need some kind of HP units for the base parts. Assume a wall has 10000 HP. From the table above we can estimate HP of the other base parts:


If we measure the number of hits per minute for each weapon, considering the HP units in the table above we obtain the following values:


Pickaxe is the best friend of every base raider in terms of damage per minute :)

The most interesting part. Can we destroy a floating platform or a storage using a gun? Yes, we can! We only need some ammo but this is not a problem for you, right?

Here is the test performed on the Wood Chair. Yeah, I “killed” many chairs during this test with different types of guns. In the table below you will find the number of shots necessary to destroy one Wood Chair.

*Approximate value. I was out of ammo during the experiment.

I tested HK pistol twice, this is not an error, HK destroys the chair with only 16 bullets. Interesting that STANAG rifle showed worse results.

As we estimated above, Wood Chair has 750 HP. Using simple proportion, we can estimate the number of shots to destroy other base parts:


Small storage can be destroyed by only 85 shots with HK pistol! For a big clan it is not a problem to destroy even a platform and then destroy the storages in typical floating base.

I didn’t take into account the distance yet. Need to make more tests.

• Pickaxe gives slightly more damage per minute than Axe or even Knife.
  
• With Pickaxe or Knife any wall or platform can be down during ~10 minutes by only one player.
  
• 9 mm and MkIII pistols are not very effective to destroy the base parts.
  
• For HK pistol, you need 85 bullets to destroy the small storage + 170 to destroy the large one = 255 bullets if you see the storages through the gaps/holes in the base. You need 213 extra bullets to down a platform or a wall.
  
• With STANAG rifle such as DD-Mk18 you need 133 + 267 bullets to destroy small and large storages correspondingly or 400 in total. Plus 333 bullets more to destroy a platform/wall.

UPD: From what I remeber, Gates have 18000 HP (which is 1.8 times more than HP of Walls), and Lockable Door has only 5000 HP (twice less than Walls), like Gnomes :)


P.S. Devs, please, add the following feature: if the storage is destroyed, all content of this storage will fall down :)

P.P.S. Sorry for grammar, English is not my native language.