Stormtrooper (TJ)

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Stormtrooper

Charging ever forward, the Stormtrooper relies on their mobility, carrying only a bullpup rifle and a set of grenades. Highly aggressive, the Stormtrooper can clear a room easily.

Class Overview

The Stormtrooper is a highly aggressive mobile unit, carrying only a bullpup and a flashbang by default. Closing quickly with the enemy, the stormtrooper delivers a high volume of fire from close range, relying on their mobility to stay alive.

Weapons

Primary: Bullpups

Secondary: None

Abilities

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Rank	Ability
Squaddie	Hit and Run Once per turn, gain an additional action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon. Cannot trigger on the same turn as Close Encounters.	Moving Target Gain 15 defense and 50 dodge against reaction attacks.	Flashbanger Grants 1 free flashbang item to your inventory.
	Breacher	Runner	Clearer
Lance Corporal	Fastball The next grenade you throw or launch this turn doesn't cost an action.	Impulse Your ranged attacks gain 10 aim and 10 critical chance if you have moved this turn.	Eat This! You gain +20 Aim and +20 Crit on attacks against adjacent targets. The bonus decreases with range, to a maximum of 6 tiles.
Corporal	Shellshock Grenades have a 15% chance to stun both organic and robotic enemies.	Run and Gun Take an action after dashing.	Formidable Your gear includes an extra layer of protection, granting 2 bonus ablative hit points and 50% less damage from explosive attacks.
Sergeant	Total Combat Throwing a grenade or using an item no longer ends the turn and grenades have no cooldown. In addition, you can throw grenades 2 tiles further and their radius is increased by 1. Grants a Grenade-only slot. Grants +5 aim and +1 mobility.	Close Encounters Once per turn, gain a bonus action after taking a standard shot with your primary weapon at an enemy within four tiles. Cannot trigger on the same turn as Hit and Run.	Marauder Standard shots are not turn-ending, allowing for shooting then moving or shooting twice on a turn.
Staff Sergeant	Close Combat Specialist Fire a free reaction shot with your primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires.	Implacable If you score one or more kills on your turn, you are granted a single bonus move.	Reflex When fired upon, gain one extra action on the next turn. Triggers no more than once per turn. Attacks against you suffer a -15 penalty to critical hit chances.
Tech Sergeant	Tandem Warheads Your grenades, rockets and heavy weapons do full damage to the maximum extent of their area of effect.	Full Throttle Gain +2 mobility with every kill this turn. Lasts 2 turns, including the current one.	Evasive Start each mission with 100 bonus dodge. The bonus is removed after you take damage for the first time.
Gunnery Sergeant	Biggest Booms Your grenades and standard rockets can inflict critical damage (50% chance for +3 damage).	Hunter's Instincts Ranged attacks against flanked enemies deal +2 damage.	Thousands To Go Once per turn, after killing an enemy with your primary weapon, you may take an additional non-movement action. Passive.
Master Sergeant	Packmaster Grants +1 charge to every utility item and grenade equipped.	Rapid Fire Fire twice in a row at an enemy. Each shot suffers an Aim penalty of -15. Can be used once per turn.	Untouchable If you score a kill during your turn, the next attack against you during the enemy turn will miss.

XCOM Abilities

XCOM row abilities are able to be purchased when the Training Center is built. The cost is 10 AP per tier level.

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Flush Special shot with a bonus to hit that does half damage but confers defense and dodge penalties and forces target to change position if it hits.	Combat Engineer Your explosives do significantly greater damage to cover objects and other things on the battlefield.	Close and Personal Confers +30 critical chance against adjacent targets. The bonus declines with distance from the target.	Disabling Shot Stun enemies with a precise shot, with a bonus stun duration if the shot crits. The shot can not do critical damage.
Deep Cover If you did not attack this turn, hunker down automatically.	Hard Target Gain 5 dodge per enemy you can see, up to a maximum of +30.	Bull Rush Make a special melee attack against any enemy within movement range that deals little damage but stuns the target for 1 turn.
Smoker Grants one free smoke grenade item to your inventory.	Extra Munitions Grants 1 free explosive grenade item to your inventory.	Tactical Sense Gain 3 defense for each enemy you can see, up to a maximum of 15 defense.	Reposition Once per turn, gain an additional move action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon.
Zone of Control All enemies within the soldier's 5 tile radius suffer penalties of -15 Aim and -4 Mobility.	Pyromaniac Grants 1 free incendiary grenade item to your inventory.	Aggression Gain +5 critical chance for each enemy you can see, up to a maximum of 30.
Lick Your Wounds Hunker Down restores 2 health when used, up to a maximum of 8 per mission, and removes poison, burning, and acid burning.	Low Profile Makes partial cover count as full.	Tradecraft This soldier has significantly reduced infiltration times while on missions.	Devil's Luck You are immune to the first shot that hits you each mission.
Grazing Fire Missed attacks have an additional roll to become a graze.	Trench Warfare If you get at least one kill during your turn, automatically Hunker Down at the end of it.	Mad Bomber Grants 2 random free grenade items to your inventory.
HEAT Warheads Your grenades now pierce up to 2 point(s) of armor and shred 1 additional point(s) of armor.	Bring 'Em On Gain +1 damage on critical hits for every two enemies you can see, up to a maximum of +8. Works for the soldier's primary weapon and explosives.	Coup de Grâce Bonus to hit, damage, and critical chance with your weapon against a disoriented, stunned or panicking enemy.	First Strike While concealed or flanking your target, you deal +3 damage with your primary weapon.
Scout Grants 1 free battle scanner item to your inventory.	Hail of Bullets Unleash a hail of bullets that is guaranteed to hit your target, but uses a lot of ammunition.	Sting Grenades Your flashbang grenades have a 50% chance to stun enemies.
Scrounger There is a chance of an extra loot drop whenever you are on a mission.	Survival Instinct Gain 20 Defense and 20 Crit chance while injured.	Rapid Deployment Activate this ability before throwing or launching a support grenade, and the throw will not cost an action.	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon.
Field Medic Equipped medikits have 2 extra charges.	Infighter Gain 40 dodge against attacks within four tiles.	Resilience Enemy attacks against you suffer a -30 penalty to critical hit chances.
Covert Enemies have 25% smaller detection range against you.	Locked On Gain +20 aim and +10 crit for successive shots at the same enemy unit.	Cyclic Fire Special Shot: Fire three shots at a target in a single attack. Requires both actions and all shots have a -15 aim penalty. Has a 3 turn cooldown.	Fearsome When you get a critical hit, your target and other enemies within 6 tiles have a chance to panic.
Aim Assist Gain additional +15 aim and +15 crit against holotargeted units.	Needle Arsenal All of your weapons do not destroy loot when they kill enemies and deal 1 bonus damage to unarmored enemies (Bonus damage only for explosive weapons). All weapons and attacks are affected, be it fire, grenades or even rockets from both launchers.	Shadowstrike While concealed, gain +50 bonus aim and +50 bonus critical hit chance when attacking enemies.
Shellshock Grenades have a 15% chance to stun both organic and robotic enemies.	Paramedic Unlocks an ability to perform a dash move to use a medikit on an ally (this ability still costs 1 action and is non-turn ending). Gain a free medikit. Equipped medikits have 2 extra charges.	Executioner Confers +15 aim and +15 critical chance against targets at half or less of their original hit points.	Cold Blooded Once per turn, gain an additional action after taking a standard shot at an enemy suffering from bleeding, poison, burning, or acid burning.
Ever Vigilant If you spend all of your actions on moves, you are granted an automatic overwatch shot at the end of the turn.	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns.	Open Fire Your ranged attacks gain 10 Aim and 10 Crit against targets that are at full health.

Stat Progression

Rank
Per Level	Health	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
	Aim	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Will	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	Health	0	1	1	1	2	2	2	3
	Aim	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16
	Will	5	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

See Also

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