Favorite under-appriciated stratagems?

[miscellaneous unc]

Orbital Gatling Barrage
- Short cooldown independent of Eagles letting you grab 500kg without juggling multiple Eagle stratagems.
- Very short deployment time.
- Effectively an Eagle Cluster but in a circular zone that lasts a very long time.
- Heavy armor AP which rarely matters although it does occasionally get the odd heavy kill.

Machine Gun Sentry
- Shortest cooldown sentry
- Still medium armor piercing like gatling gun
- Usually holds its own and even if it doesn't it's a great distraction
- Way less friendly fire incidents from my experience

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Hi, I'm Ari.:

Favorite under-appriciated stratagems?
Orbital Gatling Barrage
- Short cooldown independent of Eagles letting you grab 500kg without juggling multiple Eagle stratagems.
- Very short deployment time.
- Effectively an Eagle Cluster but in a circular zone that lasts a very long time.
- Heavy armor AP which rarely matters although it does occasionally get the odd heavy kill.

Machine Gun Sentry
- Shortest cooldown sentry
- Still medium armor piercing like gatling gun
- Usually holds its own and even if it doesn't it's a great distraction
- Way less friendly fire incidents from my experience

Eagle Smoke Strike
Priceless to make an escape while under heavy fire.
Genius if used to destroy Automatons factories.

[Snobby Hobo]

Machine Gun sentry is very popular from what I have seen. Almost 1/3 divers I meet bring it on difficulty 10. I bring it on every run against every faction simply because it's just a throwaway Stratagem that yields okay value. Even if it does nothing it takes aggro away from me.

Gas Strike is similar, but being stationary it's nowhere near as effective except perhaps against bugs (when thrown on a breach). It is usable, but pretty much inferior to the Machine Gun sentry in almost every way.

Orbital Gatling Barrage is also nice - but it just kind of falls into the "sure but why?"-category for me. Medium units have been demoted to absolute weenie tier enemies for most factions since the huge buff train trivialized the game. Orbital Gatling Barrage is fairly bad against heavy. So it's a big "sure it's convenient" Stratagem that doesn't bring reliable value.

Besides Recoilless or Railgun (whatever you prefer) there isn't a single "must have stratagem" for me anymore. 500kg would be the closest by being so versatile against so many things.

[Thegoodman]

Eagle Cluster Bomb.

From my experience nobody uses it outside of personal orders, but it's great vs. the Voteless

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Thegoodman:

Eagle Cluster Bomb.

From my experience nobody uses it outside of personal orders, but it's great vs. the Voteless

In the same category Eagle Strafing Run works great too.

[Sirre]

I don't see how gatling barrage and MG sentry are under appreciated.
Both are "meta" stratagems

[maGc]

a simple orbital strike;
decimates jamer, detector tower, fabricators, hives, rogue research station...
can wipe patrol and bot drops when paired with stun
60 sec recharge

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Thegoodman:

Eagle Cluster Bomb.

From my experience nobody uses it outside of personal orders, but it's great vs. the Voteless

In the same category Eagle Strafing Run works great too.

Strafing is great now since it's pen was upgraded.

[PocketPsycho]

Originally posted by Tactical Jaypalm:

Strafing is great now since it's pen was upgraded.

Love Strafing run. You get a bunch of uses before the Eagle needs to reload, it's an easy code to dial, call in time is quick for easy aiming/placement and it's great for danger close use.

[⛑️💉zidj]

Gas strike. Not everyone knows this but the shell has enough demolition force to kill subobjectives on direct impact. The confusion effect is also real helpful for throwing off the aim of automatons while rusting away the little bots. The short cooldown and short code are icing on the cake. You've always got one in your pocket, and if you drop it on accident it's easy to escape without dying.

I use it on stratagem jammers, detector towers, and laboratories all the time

[PocketPsycho]

Originally posted by zidj:

Gas strike. Not everyone knows this but the shell has enough demolition force to kill subobjectives on direct impact. The confusion effect is also real helpful for throwing off the aim of automatons while rusting away the little bots. The short cooldown and short code are icing on the cake. You've always got one in your pocket, and if you drop it on accident it's easy to escape without dying.

I use it on stratagem jammers, detector towers, and laboratories all the time

I might have to give that a go, I usually go for the boom or burn strikes.

[Driblex™]

Bubble shield vs bots. After the buff it became really good and useful.

[DeusEstMachina]

Orbital Airburst Strike - low cooldown, large AOE, will deal with medium armor. seems like they even upgraded the duration. it's now 4 blasts instead of 3.

I love to throw this at bug patrols I don't want to personally deal with, or clusters of bile spewers that are doing their bile bombardment. sometimes I throw it at a bug breach if I don't have anything else useful, and it's also great to soften up the POI / secondary objective guards

[GustavoM]

Any AT-related sentry imo.
t. Used both at the same time while about to extract. (Casually) watched em both mow down dropships like they were made of butter.

[mm10000]

Orbital Precision Strike, i really love it against Illuminates , Very easy to put the code it's litterly > > ^ , You can thow it at Illuminate reinforcements and kill like 15 of them, very quick has the advatage and disavatge of not locking to enemies, you can use it against Illuminate ground ship and it one shots them

[AonGreyFox]

Not sure that under or not.
I often use Gas before squid arrive against bug, mostly disable that breach like Gatling, but more stingy and bit more friendly.
Air burst is also good with bot drop ship for me. Last long enough for 2-3 ship pack close together and can clear the most annoying pack of scout. (not sure about armor one since I usually play D6-7)
Recently use 110 rocket more with bot for taking some tank or turret.
Eagle Naplam with bug. Combine with gas for more cover ' w 'a