Raynesia from Log Horizon. She's a bit outside your usual tropes, but a young woman choosing to go from a political pawn of her grandfather's to a player on the board, using her looks to get a large group of adventurers to actively participate in a large battle against goblins...I can see that.
i'm not sure about anyone in macross delta specifically, but i think you'd like grace o'connor from the prev entry (macross frontier), who is very much a girlboss