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==== Your guns are still absurd: ====
* Each shot = ~500+ kiloton nuke’s worth of kinetic energy.
* 166,670 of those per second.
* Infinite ammo, infinite durability.

So:
* In raw damage, you’re still a small star that hates monsters.
* The question is now all targeting and geometry.

===== - You can identify the different tank tiers (10 / 100 / 1000 hit) via sensors. =====
* Your targeting AI can: - Keep track of hit counts per target (or at least per region), - Prioritize: - Soft targets when you need to thin the mass, - Tanks only when they’re truly blocking key lanes.
* You use area patterns instead of single-pencil shots: - Wide kill-cones, - Curtains of fire, - Crossfire that forces dodges into other guns’ lanes.

Then:
* The swarm’s 6× HP just means more time, not a hard cap.
* Your 10 guns can still carve out gigantic kill-boxes in space.
* Eventually, if they keep having to come toward you, you grind them down.

===== - Your targeting is “dumb strong”: - Always aiming at the nearest or biggest, - Pouring massive fire into 1000-hit monsters too early, - Not exploiting AOE well. =====
* The hive mind: - Uses tanks to soak your best firing lanes, - Sends huge bands of 10-hit units through less-covered angles, - Spreads out so much that you can’t keep all directions saturated.

Then:
* Even with 10 guns, your effective kill rate on the dangerous part of the swarm drops.
* Enough of them might survive long enough to: - Surround the array, - Attack from within your minimum effective range, - Or just force you to split fire so much that your kill-zones weaken.