honestly, i really wish eagle or orbitals could hurt the damn gunships. Id totally bring an air superiority eagle strategem to high diff automaton mission.
They really suck when you dont have one of the like 2 primary weapons that can hurt the bastards, and your support weapon is currently swarmed by a trio of gunships.
I read somewhere today that the major orders can have an effect on the stratagems the players are able to unlock, supposedly one of the defense campaigns we failed would have given us an anti air missile spread (no idea if that's true though, just read it in a comment here)
Yea, I'm playing on steamdeck and I mapped the left joystick to arrows/dpad.
Airstrike is just up, cw half, ccw quarter.
This method also works with just the regular dpad as far as I know
Ahhh, half the fun is frantically trying to pull off the inputs while being chased by an army as your friends scream and foam at the mouth, a macro would feel like cheating