I'm getting really sick of defending this palace from this flipping army (for no reason at all, no less). The GROM takes 5-6 hits against the APCs' front armor, yet it's got the highest damage ranking of all my rockets. Meanwhile the vehicles see right through smoke grenades, and supposedly stealth camo and sandstorms too.
The APCs are bad enough with their nigh-invincibility and knockdown shots, but the actual tanks keep sniping me from across the map. If I see them launch a shell through my scope, it's too late to run. But hiding gets the VIP hurt, and they retarget almost instantly since they know I'm around the building and they hang back pretty far.
I've tried replacing the GROM with the Brennen sniper, and it seems to work a bit better. A lot easier to fight back against the infantry, and I can reload it from the ground. Still takes forever to actually kill the vehicles though. So far I've had the most luck just extracting them, preferably before they disgorge. But that leaves me exposed to the other infantry (not like I have any covering fire to speak of, grrr) and to getting sniped by the battle tanks. But they snipe me even when I'm indoors, with their shallow arcs, so yeah. Those shells have a massive instant-kill range too.
Bluh... Guess I should have upgraded the other rocket launchers more. I upgraded the missile launcher for the support chopper, I don't think it's equipped though. I'll see how that works, never used it before.
This mission sucks ass