The Ultimate Weapon Combination

[Tempest]

Here you can post what your favourite Tyrian weapon Combination is.

Personally I go for:

Front Gun: Laser (a.k.a. Constant Laser)
Rear Gun: Guided Microbombs
Left Sidekick: Plasma Storm/Protron Cannon Tangerine
Right Sidekick: Plasma Storm/BattleShip Class FireBomb
Special: SDF Main Gun

I also use the Mega Pulse/Rear Mega Pulse combination, but I can survive levels using my favourite Combination listed above in the Lord Of Game Difficulty

[Zoinky]

Front: Zica
Back: Sonic Wave
Left: Dual Shot Option
Right: Dual Shot Option
Special: Repulsor

[stormbringer]

Same as tempest, but Rear Gun is Sonic Wave and Special is that Laser...

[Tempest]

I think you mean the SDF Main Gun. It's a powerful wide laser, capable of passing through targets and scenery, just like the Plasma Storm.

[stormbringer]

Hmm, it's like the ordinarry laser on step 3 or 4, two times (on right and one left)... And it's just shouting like an ordinary laser... did you mean that?

[Tempest]

In THAT case you're talking about the MegaLaser Dual. Personally I'll stick to the SDF Main Gun, Astral Zone (I can do this with ShipEdit) or The Repulsor.

[Weep]

Constant Laser/Sonic Wave/SDF Main Gun
or
Zica Laser/Sonic Wave/Repulsor

...with either Zica Supercharger or Vulcan Shot Option (depending on whether I want to have to hold down an additional fire key) and BattleShip Class Firebomb.

[The Last Zica]

Ship: Prototype Stalker-C: repair system, etc. Unless the twiddles on the 21.126 are enabled, in which case, that.

Generator: Gravitron Pulse-Wave

Shield: Microcorp HXS Class C or otherwise the highest available (namely B in 2.1)

Front Weapon: Laser, 6.0 damage output per frame, higher than Zica by .5

Rear Weapon: Rear Mega Pulse, 7.428 DPF, highest normally avail by -a lot-

Left Sidekick: Zica Supercharger, .7 DPF, highest sustained output non-attachment

Right Sidekick: BattleShip-Class Firebomb, 4.0 DPF

Special: Situational, usually Repulsor for Gyges, otherwise SDF Main Gun or whatever happens by, delay being what it is it doesn't seem to matter that much in terms of total damage output

This is what I always used for Suicide/LOTG normal unhacked Full Games in Tyrian 2.x - not counting things new in 2k (not that anything in 2k looks like it can replace any of the above.)
Damage figures calculated from the game's own tables, this is basically The highest sustained output configuration you can assemble. Sometimes, like in... I think it was ep3 bonus... I'll switch to something with the invulnerability twiddle and go sit on a particularly durable target - do you know what RMP+Laser does to something you're sitting on? Heh.
Oh, in passing, I'll also note a few of the winners for stuff not normally available in the Full Game: Poison Bombs 6.666DPF, NortShip Spreader 12.0DPF. For true insanity, hack NSS as both front and rear weapon; if memory serves, that should work... >;-D

[Tempest]

I'm also at Lord of the Game difficulty while using the Front Mega Pulse, Rear Mega Pulse, Plasma Storm and the Battle-Ship Class FireBomb. As for the ship, I have the NortShipZ.

[bb1]

Ship: UPS Talon

Generator: Microsol Standard Generator

Shield: Basic integrity field

Front Weapon: Proton spread

Rear Weapon: Rear proton field...spread (forget the name)

Left Sidekick: Satellite Marlo

Right Sidekick: Satellite Marlo

Rly?

Not rly.

[The Last Zica]

Ship: USP Talon

Front Gun: Pulse-Cannon L3

Rear Gun: Sonic Wave L3

Shield: Gencore High Energy Shield

Generator: Gencore Custom MR-12

Left Sidekick: None

Right Sidekick: None

O rly?

Ya rly.

[Tempest]

Ok, but I usually go for some more fire power. I also like weapons whic can pass through enemies and scenery, like the SDF Main Gun, Plasma Storm, Sonic Impulse...

[Mouxine]

my favorite:

ship: Stalker 21.126 (even without the twiddles, high armor is priceless in LOTG since shields down means death and Stalker C twiddles are suicide in most of the case)
Front gun: Laser/mega pulse (IMO zica laser is better at lower level but by the time you get it you have enough gold to get a high level laser, high Zica laser doesn't take down several little ships fast enough and doesn't follow your ship)
R gun: rear mega pulse (good spread and fairly good firepower but needs a good generator so I usually go with vulcan cannon since it rocks for such a low price and the energy cost isn't so high)
Generator: Graviton (of course)
Shield: hightest possible at time (shield is way more important than armor almost every hard time in LOTG needs full shield in order to survive)
Left Sidekick: Compagnon ship gerund (plasma storm spoils the fun when fighting bosses)
Right Sidekick: Battleship Class Firebomb (it fires in the same pattern than sonic wave giving me no regrets choosing the rear mega pulse and it can be thrown up ahead to damage some armored enemies)
Special: Repulsor/ice blast (their slow recharge makes them just perfect for engage mode AND they doesn't use shields like the twiddles) , SDF maingun is as powerfull as my laser and it goes through enemies but if I wanted something like that I would have chosen the Plasma storm, and SDF animation is too long so in engage mode you can't use twiddles fast enough

Zica supercharger are really crap I think, not only it fires at a slower rate than a true zica but charged it only has the power of a Zica laser level 4 and you don't need more front firepower once you have a Zica laser or a laser.

And finaly my most important weapon: my mouse I just can't dodge enemies' bullets with the keybord, firepower is nothing if I can't dodge effectively

[bb1]

Repulsor? Might as well be called a useless on LOTG.

[Tempest]

I must agree that the Repulsor won't have much effect in the LOTG difficulty. I prefer more powerful Specials: Flare, Soul of Zinglon, MegaLaser Dual, SDF Main Gun...