Assault (LWR)
The Long War Rebalance Assault is similar to the vanilla Assault. Their signature ability is Close Encounters.
- Primary Weapons: Carbines, Assault Rifles, Battle Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns.
- Secondary Weapons: Pistols, Machine Pistols, Sawed-off shotgun.
- Class-Limited items: Impact Vest, Shredder Ammo, Breaching Ammo.
Abilities
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 Specialist |
 Close Encounters The first standard shot against an enemy within 4 tiles will leave this unit with 1 AP but reduces mobility to 3.3 tiles during their next action. Grants immunity to critical hits and reaction fire from enemies within 4 tiles. | ||||||
 Lance Corporal |
 Run and Gun Activate to allow shooting or overwatching at 0 AP if the last AP was spent moving. When active: Gain +20 crit, +20% crit damage, immunity to reaction fire, but the AP discount from Close Encounters is disabled. 2 turn cooldown. Cannot activate if out of ammo and does not work with the stun rifle. |
 Grenadier Using a destructive grenade deals +1 damage and costs only 1 AP. Equipped destructive grenades and MEC launchers receive an additional use and have no weight. |
 Will To Survive Increases DR of all cover to 60% but grants 10 less defense. For XCOM, grants Steadfast. .png) Steadfast
Provides +2 armor HP, immunity to panic, and reduces injury times by 30%. | ||||
 Corporal |
 Extra Conditioning
Grants +2 armor HP and +0.6 mobility, and a 10% chance for all end-in-idle actions to cost 0 AP. |
 Tandem Warheads Explosives employed by this soldier do full damage at the extent of their area of effect (instead of 50%). |
 Tenacious Defense Grants +2 armor HP. Grants +20 crit resistance when protected by cover. | ||||
 Sergeant |
 Ranger
Grants +1 damage to all weapons and equipment, +0.6 mobility, and +10% throw/rocket range. Sidearms additionally gain +2 damage, +20 aim, and 1 AP reloads. |
 Killer Instinct Grants +30% crit damage. |
 Close Combat Specialist Grants a reaction shot at any enemy within 4 tiles that acts. Reaction shot only activates on enemy's turn, once per enemy. [Basic reaction shots bypass half of cover DR/def, cannot crit, and require hit chance >30] | ||||
 Tech Sergeant |
 Rapid Fire Fire twice with your primary weapon; accuracy gains above 50% hit chance only contribute half to final hit chance. | ||||||
 Gunnery Sergeant |
 Aggression Shots gain +10% crit damage per enemy in sight. |
 Mayhem
Suppression damages enemies immediately with a round of suppressive fire. Suppressive Fire can cause bleeding. |
 Brawler If this unit is idle and has not been damaged this turn, incoming shots within 4 tiles graze (dealing only half of the original damage). | ||||
 Master Sergeant |
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 Shadowstep
This unit gains +0.6 mobility and does not trigger reaction shots or pursuit when walking (not dashing). After repositioning, shots gain +25% crit damage until next turn. | |||||
Stat Progression
| Rank | Attribute Gains | |||
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| Specialist
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+0-1 (50%) | +2-6 | - | +4-12 |
| Lance Corporal
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+0-1 (50%) | +0-2 | - | +1-3 |
| Corporal
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+0-1 (20%) | - | - | +1-3 |
| Sergeant
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+0-1 (20%) | - | - | +1-3 |
| Tech Sergeant
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+0-1 (20%) | - | - | +0-2 |
| Gunnery Sergeant
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+0-1 (20%) | - | - | - |
| Master Sergeant
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+0-1 (20%) | - | - | - |
| Total | +0-7 |
+2-8 |
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+7-23 |
Predictable Potential:
| Rank | Attribute Gains | |||
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| Specialist
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+1 | +4 | - | +8 |
| Lance Corporal
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+1 | +1 | - | +2 |
| Corporal
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- | - | - | +2 |
| Sergeant
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- | - | - | +2 |
| Tech Sergeant
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- | - | - | +1 |
| Gunnery Sergeant
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- | - | - | - |
| Master Sergeant
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- | - | - | - |
| Total | +2 |
+5 |
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+15 |
Tactical Advice
Role: Mobile Offense, Tank
Long War Rebalance Assaults are more specialized than vanilla Assaults. They are more mobile than Infantry and capable of much greater burst damage output at close range. Since their innate ability is Close Encounters, they typically want to be close to the enemy at all times, whether they are tanking damage or dealing it, and Shotguns are a natural choice for their close range focus. However, SMGs are also viable due to their high crit, mobility and crit damage boost.
Assaults are fairly simple soldiers, and the choices in their builds tend to be a simple one of offense vs. defense at each rank, with some mobility thrown in.
Assaults make good covert operatives. They have high base HP, allowing them to survive better without armor.
Sample Builds
Crit Flanker
This build focuses the Assault on being able to push aggressively through enemy overwatch and score powerful critical hits. Their main focus is on keeping the enemy AI out of position with strong flank attacks, as such perks are selected that maximise this. Run and Gun makes the Assault immune to overwatch and grants the Assault free reign to move as needed. Aggression and Killer Instinct makes critical hits more powerful and likely to occur. Sprinter simply helps the Assault gain a mobility boost.
Sample Crit Build: Run and Gun -> Extra Conditioning -> Killer Instinct -> Rapid Fire -> Sprinter -> Aggression.
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Notes: If your Assaults are using SMGs instead of Shotguns, you can swap out Killer Instinct, as SMG's grant the user Killer Instinct for free.
Recommended Equipment: Laser Sight, Targeting Module, Breaching Ammo.
Tank Assault
This build trades offense for defense, and builds strong bio tanks out of your assaults. Keep in mind that the Tank Assault is a very passive build and lacks the mobility to push and deal damage up close. They will be sitting in front of the aliens taking fire without being able to effectively give any back until the aliens decide to push into your assault. The best way to mitigate the Tank Assault's weakness is to give them more utility through psionic training or by making making them officers.
Sample Tank Assault Build:
Will to Survive -> Tenacious Defense -> Killer Instinct -> Rapid Fire -> Brawler -> Shadowstep
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Recommended Equipment: Ceramic Plating, Targeting Module, Breaching Ammo
Notes:
- Extra Conditioning can be taken over Tenacious Defense for more offensive ability.
- Killer Instinct has good synergy with Shadowstep, but Sprinter can be taken to top off the Assault's mobility and bring farther enemies within striking distance.
- Assaults that use shotguns are nearly helpless against hardened foes, and Assaults that use breaching ammo to defeat the Hardened perk suffer from the equipment's weight, especially because traditional flanking assaults don't have the tanking perks necessary to resist fire from the numerous flying hardened foes that XCOM faces by the mid-late game. As such, this build is the most capable of using the shotgun with breaching ammo, and dealing with overly aggressive elite floaters/cyberdisks/seekers/etc.
- A 50% damage, non-crit Close Combat Specialist reaction shot is laughably inferior to a 200% crit shot on an enemy already within 4 tiles. Until CCS is changed or moved, do not use it over Killer Instinct.
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