Preferred SP Weps and aircraft for Anchorhead Raid? (Spoilers)

[Gramzon da Durgun]

I adore this new DLC mission, and am curious what other people have been having success with as far as special weapons. I originally was trying UBGs with the black widow and SU-47 for ground, but found the ships took more than 2 bombs to kill (though they lose all their weapons with one bomb which is funny).

Coming back on another run I snagged the s rank ace just barely with the X-01, using anti ship missiles for... well you know, ships. 4 AAMs for clearing drones and fighters (can use these almost as your main missile with such a large load and easy resupply, and since they one shot non-mig-31s in phase one), then an EML for a quick cleanup of the aces.

I noticed the LASMs really seem to hate this mission. cranes and medium buildings seem to eat the missiles from many angles, and they often seem to fall short or long of the ships they're locked onto especially when locked o at close range. it was better to fly high and far away when possible if seemed.

what else have people had success with? what other weapons are good at anti ship? how are rocket pods, penetration bombs, stand off dispensers, and the various anti ground missiles performing for y'all?

[Useless Bunny]

PLSL. For everything.

[Michaミカ]

PLSL

[Sahasrara00]

Aircraft: X-02S Wyvern. Sp weapons: all, EML for last part, 4AAM for planes, LASM for ships.

[boris.glevrk]

For clearing ground targets without any leakage: SFFS
For general purpose: PLSL
For interception: TLS
For easy cheesy: LACM

Generally I think ADF-11F with TLS (plus PLSL as MG) is the best.

[KaffeeKup]

Super Hornet does it pretty well
LASMs for the ground targets, QUAAM for the air and then the Railgun for the mimic squadron and UAVs

[Young Erusean Officer]

On Ace I use the X-02s with LASM. I switch to 4AAM once there's no more ships.

Funnily enough, the LASM still one shots the Aegis Shores and takes out very tightly packed clusters.

[Gramzon da Durgun]

Originally posted by Young Erusian Officer:

On Ace I use the X-02s with LASM. I switch to 4AAM once there's no more ships.

Funnily enough, the LASM still one shots the Aegis Shores and takes out very tightly packed clusters.

The LASM in general just obliterates single targets. Since it one shots the aegis ships it also takes out the land installations that are just buildings made out of a ship

[Young Erusean Officer]

Originally posted by Gramzon the Dragon:

Originally posted by Young Erusian Officer:

On Ace I use the X-02s with LASM. I switch to 4AAM once there's no more ships.

Funnily enough, the LASM still one shots the Aegis Shores and takes out very tightly packed clusters.

The LASM in general just obliterates single targets. Since it one shots the aegis ships it also takes out the land installations that are just buildings made out of a ship

On rare occasions they take out 90-100% of the UAV containers on the cargo ships.

[Gralzeim]

Gripen also seems to work alright, has LACM, 6AAM, though didn't get a chance to swap to the SASM for the bats since I didn't know the return lines go away once the bats arrive.

Hornet's probably a better choice though.

[midori]

Su-35S with Lasm for the first part, after I clear the second fleet of ships, I switch to the laam which helped me a lot against the sluav and the two idiots at the end. on ace (game's pretty easy, on par with AC5)

[StemmarB7R]

I've personally got my highest score with the F-22 w/ XSDB into QAAM, it's an extremely effective combo, however I've had the most fun with LACM/LAGM/LASM builds, very nice because their parts also synergize with the air-to-air missiles for the latter half of the mission. SFFS is also incredibly fun to use and 4/8AGM are surprisingly effective as well; it all comes down to the fact that you can easily resupply very quickly, so you don't need to worry about conserving ammo and you can just spam the hell out of whatever you have! I'll also try a GRKT run as soon as I can.

[Gramzon da Durgun]

Originally posted by StemmarB7R:

I've personally got my highest score with the F-22 w/ XSDB into QAAM, it's an extremely effective combo, however I've had the most fun with LACM/LAGM/LASM builds, very nice because their parts also synergize with the air-to-air missiles for the latter half of the mission. SFFS is also incredibly fun to use and 4/8AGM are surprisingly effective as well; it all comes down to the fact that you can easily resupply very quickly, so you don't need to worry about conserving ammo and you can just spam the hell out of whatever you have! I'll also try a GRKT run as soon as I can.

I really struggle to get rockets working for me for some reason. they pack a lot of munitions per unit of ammo, but seem to scatter to the wind a little too much to actually make them more effective than using something like a UGB which is just drop it and forget it, allowing you to gtfo of CIWS fire

[StemmarB7R]

Standard RKT has been massively nerfed from the massive Weapon of Mass Destruction that it was in AC6: now you have to be very close to make them effective, which however exposes you to tons of AA fire. That's why I haven't used them very much ever since the game's release and why I'd rather use GRKT for this mission: they are a good counter to CIWS and, with some luck, you can destroy most high-health targets in one swoop.