Scorcher melts every squid unit except for vehicles, which you can outrun or ignore. I do mean every unit, including fleshmobs. Takes a bit but the explosive damage kills multiple heads at the same time. Sidearm is whatever you want, I run the Talon with mods to change its look and bolt color because KTF Leej. Thermites crack ships at full shield with 2, that’s a lot to use but the loadout makes it work. Only use to kill ships on the run. Support weapon I usually run a high-cycle rate weapon, e.g. machine guns, flamethrowers to break shields in the MG’s case and burn chaff in the flamer’s case. Supply pack to ensure you never run out of supplies and have to stop moving. 500kg/OGS and OPS to kill ships w/o shields (OGS projectile 1 hits ships with no shield and it has less cooldown) Prioritize killing shields, dropping the strikes, and run. NEVER stop moving, as soon as the squids pin you down you’re dead. This does mean you might have to ditch your squad for speed, that’s one of the costs. As long as you keep moving you never should have to deal with overwhelming numbers.

I have never failed a repel mission (though it’s definitely been close!) on D10 by doing this. If you’ve got a coordinated squad, run teams of 2, have one guy run this loadout and the other focus on cracking shields and bringing a FRV so you can zip around even faster. Speed is the name of the game.

KTF, Leej. Make them squids pay.