For me, in the Snake, the rockets were king. Four pods with as many as 76 rockets (although the outboard pods were limited to about 13 rockets each, if my memory is correct. Got so we could hit anything with them, and they hit with a ton of thunder, especially the 17 pounders.
Mini-guns were fine for some stuff, but for me, rockets did the heavy work. I estimated once that I fired about 25,000 of them (500 times expended, about twice a day, at 50 rockets per load), and about 1 million rounds of 7.62, and maybe 100,000 40mm. As we used to say, no sense bringing that stuff home.