Share your personal loadout.

[Saxton Hale]

Hey everyone, just curious about everyone's loadouts. (for Automatons and/or Terminids)
1) Share your equipment. (armor, weapons, grenades)
2) Share your Stratagems.
3) Keep it civil, don't start arguing about meta, build viability and other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If you do, you'll be reported to a Democracy Officer.

Also, feel free to explain your choices, for instance "This is why I bring weapon X" and "Stratagem Y helps me take out this enemy".

Here's mine (I won't share my Automatons loadout because I don't have good experience with them since their return):

1) Punisher Shotgun, because it's a nice backup that can 1 shot light bugs. (small or medium size)
Redeemer, I just like it.
Frag Grenade, good for clearing bug holes.
B-27 Fortified Commando, looks cool and keeps me alive.

2) Machine Gun, ever since they buffed the armor piercing this thing is so much fun, and is actually viable against most enemies, struggling only against Titans (duh) and Chargers.
Shield Generator backpack, this is just more protection so I can reload the MG in a pinch without taking too much damage.
I sometimes take Stalwart instead of MG if I just want to goof around.
Railcannon, a good one for damaging tougher enemies.
Laser, I don't always take this one but the crowd control and damage is undeniable.
If I don't take the Laser, I take the Patriot. This is more fun than anything else, but it can be combined with the Shield Generator backpack to become a juggernaut!

That's my loadout, what's yours, Helldiver?

[† Sinclaire🩸]

JAR5 dominator, m'y favorite one, little bolter that clear medium
Pistol as secondary to clear little mobs
Thermit as grenade to deal with heavy and bugs holes
Jetpack for mobility and so much fun to use
Medium or light armor for mobility

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Vs Bugs:
Liberator (I'm tired of all the other primaries being nerfed)
Senator
Impact Grenade
Eagle Airstrike, Orbital Railcannon/Precision Orbital (depending on my mood), Recoilless, EATs.

Vs. Bots:
Dominator (consistent headshots if you aim well, gotta take into account the scope dot sight still being a bit too high)
Grenade Pistol
Stun Grenade
Clusterbomb Airstrike, Orbital Railcannon/Precision Orbital (again, depending on my mood), Supply Pack, AMR.

Supply Pack + AMR is team-support and BiS against bots, IMO. AMR is just a better Autocannon if you can aim well, IMO. But I might just be saying that because I hate the Autocannon's optics, and that's taking into consideration that the AMR's sights are still slightly off, even though AH claims they fixed it.

[dyra55]

B-08 Light Gunner
Las-16 Sickle
P-4 Senator
Impact Grenades

Eagle Airstrike
Orbital Railcannon
Orbital Gas Strike for Terminids / Shield Generator or Shield Backpack for Automatons
Some support weapon, lately it's Recoilless Rifle after Las-99 Quasar Canon was nerfed

[Jhea]

vs bots

scorcher, revolver, frag grenades
armor - mostly stealh light armor

stratagems...
arc thrower, jumppack, 380 mm barrage and 110 mm rocket pod

vs bugs

punisher or slugger, revolver or grenade pistol, fire or frag grenades
armor - mostly stealth light armor

stalwart or flamethrower, 380 mm barrage, napalm, 110mm rocket pods or railgunstrike


but i tend to switch whatever and not stick to anything in particular

a few weeks back i loved the arcthrower, before that the autogun, before that the recoillessm, before that the railgun, before that the HMG before that the stationary HMG and mine fields.
or all barrages

[Mikail]

Fire shotgun, nade pistol, fire nade

shield
eagle airstrike
Orbital laser
antimat - bots
railgun - bugs

For def missions.
Just sentrys and antimat.

[Mauro Gabriel]

Liberator Penetrator, for cleaning little to mediums
revolver for secondary for that extra punch, also personal preference
impact grenades, just for the no time to explode usefulness, used HI-EX before so, same damage, but no wait period
Orbital Precision Strike, no brainer for me, never leave my SD without it
Gatling Barrage/Railcannon strike/Orbital Laser, depends on the fancy, and if only one other guy has Railcannon strike/Orbital Laser, gatling barrage is replaced by RCS or OL, if not, im usig GB cause of the fast cooldown it has.
500kg/cluster bomb, always an Eagle on call.
and for now im running the Airburst RPG, kills patrol groups like no one else, love it!
Light Armour for fast running and extra nades!.

This is my actual loadout now, that im playing against Bugs
if im going back against the Toasters, then

Dominator, for armor punch
revolver, as i said, personal preference
impact grenades
ODS, never leaves my slot since i started playing.
Orbital Laser, for outposts, bunkers and AT-ATs
500kg Eagle
Autocannon My Beloved! or Liberator Rover with MG-43.
Light Armour for fast running and extra nades!. or Heavy armor for blast protection, depends on the mission type

booster are the same for both enemies, wich is..... wichever is not picked by the rest of squad XD

[Pctechnik]

Generally, 500kg, 380mm, rover and EAT. Light scout armour, grenade pistol, incendiary grenades and breaker (against bugs) or the Dommy mommy (Jar5) against bots. Stamina booster for long walks.

[Honorary gynecologist]

bots, Orbital walking barrage, 380mm barrage, orbital lazor, 500 kg bomb. weapon scorcher and nade pistol. Probably can solo bots this way I wipe out the large bot bases with the orbitals in like a second

[Cloud Kicker]

Crowd Control

For when the number of enemies is large but you know your teammates capability to pick off things larger than a Charger. Simple build, see anything smaller than a charger? Kill it quick, see a charger? Throw a Stun grenade at them. Use the grenade pistol against bug holes or fabricators and against the butt of a charger. Learn the differences between the 3 types of AR and their armor penetration. You can shoot the armor plates off the legs of Brood Commanders and Warriors with Medium Penetration. Always bring one with Medium Penetration.
If both your Primary and Support weapon are out of juice, fall back a bit, if you are also horribly out of position from your friends you die.

• AR-23 // AR-23C // AR-23P
  
• GP-31 ( Grenade Pistol )
  
• MG-43 // MG-206 // M-105 ( any machine gun )
  
• G-23 ( stun grenade )
  
• Eagle ( Napalm ) Airstrike // Eagle Cluster Bomb

leaving 2 ( 1 in some automaton missions ) free slot, for which I can actually recomend Orbital Smoke Strike or Eagle Smoke Strike, B-1 Supply Pack or AX/LAS-5 "Guard Dog" Rover. Depending on what enemies you think you will encounter

Grenade Launcher or AutoCannon

Pretty much a weapon that I have its own build around. So many grenades, I love it. The thing needs its own B-1 supply pack though because it eats through ammo quickly. Might as well pair it with a reload heavy primary and secondary.
You mainly have a lot of punch but not a lot of sustain. So make it count. Reloading is a thing you can do when there is no enemy left standing anyway.
Pair it with an EAT-17 and you can also help take out the heavies

• R-63 // R-63CS ( the marksman rifles )
  
• P-19 ( Autopistol )
  
• GL-21 ( Grenade Launcher ) // AC-8
  
• G-3 Smoke // G-23 Stun // G-10 Incendiary
  
• EAT-17
  
• B-1 ( not in combination with the AC-8

This should leave you with 1 Strategem slot left you can fill with something red.
If it does not, well then you better drop the GL-21 and B-1 for a nice AC-8.
When using that GL-21 please do be aware that what you shoot must not come ricocheting back at you or you are going to have a bad time.
The R-63CS is good for picking off heads of Devastators, or their rocket pods. I recommend you do that if your support needs to reload

Precision Remover

I use this thing whenever I can because there is nothing like shooting a Hulk through its head with an APW-1 ( Anti Materiel Rifle ) and watch it blow up from a relatively safe distance. It also works great to remove someone from the gunners nest and I probably saved many of my fellow Helldivers that way.
You CAN use the RS-422 ( Railgun ) instead and increase your range of enemies you can 'solo' ( Like the Charger, and the Bile Titan ). But I prefer to fight toasters and my APW-1.
IF you want to use the RS-422 remember to hold the reload button and take off the safety. You WILL do a lot more damage depending on how much you charge the weapon before it fires. You WILL explode alongside your weapon if you overcharge

• SG-8S ( Slugger ) // Plas-1 ( Scorcher ) // AR-23 ( any variant )
  
• Secondary does not matter much, though i recomend the P-19 ( Autopistol ) // GP-31 ( Grenade Pistol )
  
• APW-1 // RS-422
  
• G-23 Stun
  
• B-1

This leaves you with 2 strategem slots. For which I recommend some more precision removal tools. EAT-17, 500 KG Bomb, Orbital Railcannon Strike, or my personal favorite the Eagle 110MM Rocket Pods.
This plays mostly searching and eliminating targets of opportunity rather than mass removal. So it is great for those who know how to remain stealthy.

Current meta never reload

I do not like it. It orbits around the idea of mostly lone-wolfing and never having to reload if you manage your heat. The LAS-99 ( Quasar Cannon ) takes way too long to aim in my personal opinion to effectively use against anything but near static targets ( no need to tell me about that time some user totally downed that dropship... Cus what happens 99/100 times is that the dropship already dropped at least half its payload )
Although I have seen it in the field enough to make up a "If I had to then I would..." build for it

• LAS-16 ( Sickle ) // ARC-3 ( Arc Thrower )
  
• Secondary does not matter
  
• LAS-99
  
• Grenade does not matter
  
• AX-LAS-5 ( Guard Dog Rover )
  
• EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit

Leaving 1 slot for something like the Orbital Laser or whatever other Red you think will get the job done.

I wish that somewhere in the future I can actually write down a GR-8 or FLAM-40 or maybe even a LAS-98 "build" that does not make me feel like I am recommending a 'bad' weapon for what it currently is. Oh and do not even get me started on the FAF-14. DO NOT touch that one.