Guardian (Long War)

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MEC variant of the Medic class. The Guardian is specialised in Restorative Mist use, and can greatly increase both its charges and effectiveness. Guardians can also specialise in improving overwatch, and also have a decent selection of defensive perks.

Abilities

Rank	Ability
Specialist	Packmaster All limited-use items in your inventory receive one extra use.
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Lance Corporal	Covering Fire Allows reaction shots to trigger on enemy attacks, not just movement	Steadfast Never panic as a result of allies panicking or getting wounded or killed.	Automated Threat Assessment Confers +15 Defense during first attack in overwatch, and a half point of damage reduction (meaning one point of damage in a successful attack has a 50% chance of being avoided)
	Aim: 3 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 5 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0
Corporal	Field Medic Allows Restorative Mist items to be used three times per battle instead of once.	Platform Stability Any shots taken without moving have +10 Aim and +10% critical chance.	Body Shield The nearest visible enemy suffers -20 aim and cannot critically hit this unit
	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 3 Will: 0 Mob: 1	Aim: 0 Will: 2 Mob: 1
Sergeant	Jetboot Module When activated, confers the ability to jump to normally inaccessible heights for the rest of the turn.	Ranger Primary weapon does one additional damage.	Opportunist Eliminates the Aim penalty on reaction shots, and allows reaction shots to cause critical hits.
	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 1	Aim: 1 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0
Tech Sergeant	Repair Servos Repairs up to 50% of damage taken (max 2 per turn). Additional damage taken before repairs are complete reduces how much can be repaired.	Damage Control When this unit takes damage, all further damage will be reduced by 1 or 2 points for the next 2 turns.	Reactive Targeting Sensors Unit gets a free shot back at the first enemy who attacks the MEC each turn, provided there's enough ammo to do so.
	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0
Gunnery Sergeant	Resilience Confers immunity to critical hits.	Sentinel Allows two reaction shots during Overwatch, instead of only one.	Absorption Fields Reduces most incoming damage to this unit, scaling up as the damage increases.
	Aim: 3 Will: 3 Mob: 1	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0
Master Sergeant	Light 'Em Up Firing with the first action no longer ends turn.	Ready For Anything If the unit fires without moving, it automatically enters overwatch.	Savior Restorative Mist units restore three more health per use.
	Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0	Aim: 4 Will: 2 Mob: 0	'Aim: 0 Will: 0 Mob: 0

Stat Progression

Rank	HP at level	Total HP	Aim at level	Total Aim
Specialist	1	1	3	3
Lance Corporal	0	1	3	6
Corporal	1	2	3	9
Sergeant	0	2	3	12
Tech Sergeant	1	3	3	15
Gunnery Sergeant	0	3	3	18
Master Sergeant	1	4	3	21

See also

Long War: Soldiers
	Soldiers Assault Infantry Rocketeer Gunner Sniper Scout Medic Engineer
	MEC Troopers Marauder Valkyrie Archer Goliath Jaeger Pathfinder Guardian Shogun
	Officers Psionics Gene Mods S.H.I.V.s