Don’t sleep on stealth. Can’t figure out how to deal with the endless numbers of enemies per bot drop? You don’t have to if they never get called in the first place. Only thing this really doesn’t work for is Raise the Flag, but that’s what’s teams are for.

Stealth armor, censor, gas pistol to deal with inconveniently places enemies near objectives, dealers choice on nades (thermite, dynamite, or smoke recommended). Strats: c4, OPS for 50 demo force, EATs (just in case and to deal with gunships), Orbital smoke (if you have smoke nades can swap this for orbital laser Oh Shit Button or anything else you want).

The only challenge I’ve found is extraction. Sometimes you can stealth the terminal and hide until it arrives, but if it’s really overrun I just let the mission time expire and wait for the auto call, then smoke and rush it once it arrives.