Best go to stratagems for the early - mid game?

[White Rider]

Been rolling with:

Gatling sentry,
Stalwart machine gun,
Supply pack for supporting the team, (or just to quickly fill grenades to blow holes closed)
And Eagle Airstrike.

Figure it's decently well rounded at least for the early levels.

What's been working for you, or for those more experienced what can you suggest for an optimal early game setup?

[M1styczny]

Take something against armor like Expandable Anti Tank. Stalwart only works on lower difficulties, starter rifle is good enough.

[Skitzo Sam]

Grenade launcher, Rover backpack

[Gazz]

I'm starting to like grenade launcher and the supply backpack. Kaboom for daaaaaaays!

[Pc Peasant]

autocannon (both normal and turret)
since you got airstrike already, its the best one you can have even on max difficulty

also supply pack and later you get the railgun

[Vanta]

GL
Auto cannon
EAT
Recoilless
Eagle Airstrike
Eagle Cluster

[ash]

Supply Backpack and the grenade launcher is a crazy combo to play.
Eagle Cluster is probably one of the best Airstrikes in the game atm.

[Akameka]

Auto canon will carry you in mid game until you get railgun. can also destroy nest and factories if angled well.
Makes dif 4-6 feasable against insect and robots.

rockets and recoilless canon allow you to kake out isolated chargers quickly by shooting their leg, but that wont be enough for dif 5+, there are way too many of them.

at dif 4-5, grenade launcher will allow you to kill bile spitters, stalkers and medium armored insects easily as well as handling nest in a breeze. It's also okayish against Robots, because they don't especially need armor piercing in normal missions as, unlike insects, their weakpoint is actually weak, and most of their armor can be penetrated by normal ammo. Armor piercing just make it way easier to handle.

My go to for now is autocanon, airstrike, autocanon turret and either rocket launcher or another airstrike or orbital strike. I will replace the last one with 500kg bomb soon (but that's lvl15)

[White Rider]

Originally posted by Akameka:

Auto canon will carry you in mid game until you get railgun. can also destroy nest and factories if angled well.
Makes dif 4-6 feasable against insect and robots.

rockets and recoilless canon allow you to kake out isolated chargers quickly by shooting their leg, but that wont be enough for dif 5+, there are way too many of them.

at dif 4-5, grenade launcher will allow you to kill bile spitters, stalkers and medium armored insects easily as well as handling nest in a breeze. It's also okayish against Robots, because they don't especially need armor piercing in normal missions as, unlike insects, their weakpoint is actually weak, and most of their armor can be penetrated by normal ammo. Armor piercing just make it way easier to handle.

My go to for now is autocanon, airstrike, autocanon turret and either rocket launcher or another airstrike or orbital strike. I will replace the last one with 500kg bomb soon (but that's lvl15)

with the portable autocannon, considering you really need someone else to carry the ammo and reload you, are random players a risk as far as them not helping would mean you basically wasted a slot, or are they fairly reliable?

[Pc Peasant]

Originally posted by White Rider:

Originally posted by Akameka:

Auto canon will carry you in mid game until you get railgun. can also destroy nest and factories if angled well.
Makes dif 4-6 feasable against insect and robots.

rockets and recoilless canon allow you to kake out isolated chargers quickly by shooting their leg, but that wont be enough for dif 5+, there are way too many of them.

at dif 4-5, grenade launcher will allow you to kill bile spitters, stalkers and medium armored insects easily as well as handling nest in a breeze. It's also okayish against Robots, because they don't especially need armor piercing in normal missions as, unlike insects, their weakpoint is actually weak, and most of their armor can be penetrated by normal ammo. Armor piercing just make it way easier to handle.

My go to for now is autocanon, airstrike, autocanon turret and either rocket launcher or another airstrike or orbital strike. I will replace the last one with 500kg bomb soon (but that's lvl15)

with the portable autocannon, considering you really need someone else to carry the ammo and reload you, are random players a risk as far as them not helping would mean you basically wasted a slot, or are they fairly reliable?

you can reload it yourself its really quick. if you leave 1 shot in the mag you reload in 1 sec

[kknd]

Originally posted by White Rider:

Originally posted by Akameka:

Auto canon will carry you in mid game until you get railgun. can also destroy nest and factories if angled well.
Makes dif 4-6 feasable against insect and robots.

rockets and recoilless canon allow you to kake out isolated chargers quickly by shooting their leg, but that wont be enough for dif 5+, there are way too many of them.

at dif 4-5, grenade launcher will allow you to kill bile spitters, stalkers and medium armored insects easily as well as handling nest in a breeze. It's also okayish against Robots, because they don't especially need armor piercing in normal missions as, unlike insects, their weakpoint is actually weak, and most of their armor can be penetrated by normal ammo. Armor piercing just make it way easier to handle.

My go to for now is autocanon, airstrike, autocanon turret and either rocket launcher or another airstrike or orbital strike. I will replace the last one with 500kg bomb soon (but that's lvl15)

with the portable autocannon, considering you really need someone else to carry the ammo and reload you, are random players a risk as far as them not helping would mean you basically wasted a slot, or are they fairly reliable?

You really don't need a loader anywhere near as desperately as the Recoiless when using the Autocannon. That said, I find 'trading' them a supply pack works well. They carry your ammo, you resupply them as needed by taking their pack for them. Plus, AC has 10 round total capacity and loads 5 round magazines, so unlike the RR you have some flex before needing reload.

[Akameka]

Originally posted by White Rider:

Originally posted by Akameka:

Auto canon will carry you in mid game until you get railgun. can also destroy nest and factories if angled well.
Makes dif 4-6 feasable against insect and robots.

rockets and recoilless canon allow you to kake out isolated chargers quickly by shooting their leg, but that wont be enough for dif 5+, there are way too many of them.

at dif 4-5, grenade launcher will allow you to kill bile spitters, stalkers and medium armored insects easily as well as handling nest in a breeze. It's also okayish against Robots, because they don't especially need armor piercing in normal missions as, unlike insects, their weakpoint is actually weak, and most of their armor can be penetrated by normal ammo. Armor piercing just make it way easier to handle.

My go to for now is autocanon, airstrike, autocanon turret and either rocket launcher or another airstrike or orbital strike. I will replace the last one with 500kg bomb soon (but that's lvl15)

with the portable autocannon, considering you really need someone else to carry the ammo and reload you, are random players a risk as far as them not helping would mean you basically wasted a slot, or are they fairly reliable?

you don't need a player to reload. It's just faster.
If no player around, you have to crounch and reload.
You have 10 ammo, and something like 100 in backpack - refillable with ammo crates.
You can reload when at least 5 shots were used. A 5 shots reload takes 1s, a 10 shot reload immobilise you for 4-5s.

Most likelly the heavy threath will be down before you need to reload, and it's way more manageable than recoil less reload or heavy machinegun.

[Kalenath]

Originally posted by Skitzo Sam:

Grenade launcher, Rover backpack

Rover backpack is absolutely awesome for murdering teammates and civilians in escort missions. Feel free to bring it any time you want to fail said escort missions. FYI, every time you kill civvies, it is -25 requisition. I do not know for sure, but I think that is taken out of your bank when you get back to the ship if you do not make enough to cover it in the mission. Last game with escort that i saw laser backpack? We sat at -400 for quite a bit because that guy kept running with them and frying them.

For solo or regular missions, yes it is good to have something watching your back when your team runs off to do whatever and leaves you alone against a horde.

[Frostea]

Recoiless rifle hits different:

[White Rider]

Originally posted by kknd:

Originally posted by White Rider:

with the portable autocannon, considering you really need someone else to carry the ammo and reload you, are random players a risk as far as them not helping would mean you basically wasted a slot, or are they fairly reliable?

You really don't need a loader anywhere near as desperately as the Recoiless when using the Autocannon. That said, I find 'trading' them a supply pack works well. They carry your ammo, you resupply them as needed by taking their pack for them. Plus, AC has 10 round total capacity and loads 5 round magazines, so unlike the RR you have some flex before needing reload.:raven:

Ah interesting. The little preview clip makes it seem like an ammo guy is needed for it.
I've been using the supply pack myself a lot anyway and try to keep everyone topped up when they get low. If I need to be the ammo ♥♥♥♥♥ now and again to use big ass gun, that's not a bad trade off.

[TheSuit]

Grenade Launcher + Laser Rover Defense drone + Airstrike + Precision Orbital

Will carry you through first 5 difficulties