Gunner (LWOTC)

The Gunner is trained to use heavy automatic weapons, able to cover the squad with suppressive fire or inflict significant damage in direct attacks.

Class Overview

Gunners are akin to vanilla Grenadiers that have specialized in Cannon use. They have a number of perks related to the cannon and suppression (with Suppression and Area Suppression as baseline class abilities).

"Saw Gunner" specialized Gunners (Left branch) invest in the raw direct damage potential of the cannon, essentially becoming a mobile heavy rifleman that can exploit a single target with multiple or unavoidable attacks, but have less raw battle control potential when using their weapons to suppress the enemy.

"Machine Gunner" specialized Gunners (Right branch) behave as mid-line fire support soldiers with enhanced and highly effective suppressive fire, capable of pinning an enemy squad down and victimizing any enemies dumb or desperate enough to try and break cover, but do not share in the raw single target damage potential of their SAW counterparts.

Weapons

Primary: Cannons

Secondary: Combat Knife

Cannons have an aim penalty at very short range, so Gunners carry a combat knife for close in defense. Gunners also enjoy many options in the Center branch for improving their survivability and utility in combat, allowing them to share the frontline with Assaults and Rangers without breaking a sweat.

Abilities

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Rank	Ability
Squaddie	Knife Fighter You may make a melee attack with your knife against adjacent enemies.	Suppression Fire a barrage that pins down a target, grants reaction fire against it if it moves, restricts the use of many abilities, and imposing a -25 penalty to the target's aim.	Area Suppression Fire a barrage that pins down multiple targets within a 4-tile radius, granting reaction fire against anyone that moves, and imposing a -25 penalty to all targets' aim until suppression is removed. Cannot be used when concealed.
	SAW Gunner		Machinegunner
Lance Corporal	Center Mass You do one additional point of base damage when using guns.	Combatives You may parry melee attacks and counterattack with your melee weapon. Also gain +10 dodge.	Grazing Fire Missed shots with your primary weapon have an additional roll to become a graze.
Corporal	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.	Formidable Your gear includes an extra layer of protection, granting 2 bonus ablative hit points and 50% less damage from explosive attacks.	Lockdown Gain +20 to hit against enemies who attempt to move when suppressed.
Sergeant	Hail of Bullets Unleash a hail of bullets that is guaranteed to hit your target, but uses a lot of ammunition.	Shredder Your primary weapon attacks shred armor.	Mayhem Gain 25% bonus damage against enemies who attempt to move when suppressed.
Staff Sergeant	Chain Shot Take a shot with an aim penalty of 10. If you hit the target, you take another shot on the target automatically.	Iron Curtain Special shot that does 50% of normal damage but reduces target mobility for the following 2 turn(s). Cone-based attack with primary weapon.	Demolition Unleash a volley of bullets at your target's cover, significantly damaging or destroying it. Deals no damage to your target.
Tech Sergeant	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.	Danger Zone Area Suppression suppresses enemies in a 5-tile radius.	Cool Under Pressure You gain +10 Aim on Overwatch and other reaction shots, and they can critically hit.
Gunnery Sergeant	Rupture A Rupture shot grants a +50 bonus to critical hit chances and ensures that the target takes an additional +3 damage from all attacks in the future.	Rapid Fire Fire twice in a row at an enemy. Each shot suffers an Aim penalty of -15. Can be used once per turn.	Kill Zone Take a reaction shot against any enemy that moves or attacks within a cone of fire.
Master Sergeant	Saturation Fire Fire a cone shaped barrage of bullets at every enemy in an area. In addition, the cover of those enemies can be damaged or destroyed. Uses a lot of ammunition.	Combat Fitness Gain 4 aim, 1 mobility, 2 HP, 4 will, and 4 dodge.	Traverse Fire After taking a standard shot with your primary weapon with your first action, you may take an additional non-movement action.

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
Blademaster All melee attacks deal +1 extra damage and have +10 Aim.	Bladestorm Free melee attacks on any enemies that enter, exit or attack from melee range on enemy turns.	Aggression Gain +5 critical chance for each enemy you can see, up to a maximum of 30.	Apex Predator Critical hits with your primary weapon have a chance to panic the target and nearby enemies.
Coup de Grâce Bonus to hit, damage, and critical chance with your weapon against a disoriented, stunned or panicking enemy.	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.	Deadeye Take a shot with a small aim penalty for a significant damage boost.
Cutthroat Your melee attacks against biological enemies ignore their armor and have a +15 critical chance and do +2 critical damage.	Close and Personal Confers +30 critical chance against adjacent targets. The bonus declines with distance from the target.	Evasive Start each mission with 100 bonus dodge. The bonus is removed after you take damage for the first time.	Close Combat Specialist Fire a free reaction shot with your primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires.
Damn Good Ground Confers +10 aim and +10 defense against targets at a lower elevation.	Combat Engineer Your explosives do significantly greater damage to cover objects and other things on the battlefield.	Implacable If you score one or more kills on your turn, you are granted a single bonus move.
Deep Cover If you did not attack this turn, hunker down automatically.	Ever Vigilant If you spend all of your actions on moves, you are granted an automatic overwatch shot at the end of the turn.	Lightning Reflexes Reaction fire shots against you have a significantly decreased chance to hit. The bonus goes down with each additional reaction shot you face.	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.
Field Medic 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.	Lightning Slash Attack any enemy within blue movement range with your weapon. This attack does not end the turn.
Flashbanger Grants 1 free flashbang item to your inventory.	Fleche Attack any enemy within movement range with your sword. Deals +1 damage for every 4 tiles between your starting position and the target.	Lock 'N Load Kills with your primary weapon restore 1 ammo.	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.
Infighter Gain 40 dodge against attacks within four tiles.	Fortify Activate to grant +20 defense until the beginning of the next turn. Does not cost an action. Has a 4 turn cooldown.	Precision Shot Take a special shot with +30 bonus to critical chance and 34% bonus critical damage. Has a 4 turn cooldown.
Lone Wolf Gain bonus Aim and Defense when at least 4 tiles distant from any ally, with a maximum of +12/+12 at 7+ tiles.	Hard Target Gain 5 dodge per enemy you can see, up to a maximum of +30.	Predator Your ranged attacks gain 15 bonus aim and 15 bonus critical chance against enemies that are flanked or out of cover.	Hunter's Instincts Ranged attacks against flanked enemies deal +2 damage.
Salvo Launching or throwing grenades, using heavy weapons or using the Gauntlet's Rocket Launcher with your first action will not end your turn.	Low Profile Makes partial cover count as full.	Ready For Anything Enter overwatch after firing a turn ending standard shot with your primary weapon.
Smoker Grants one free smoke grenade item to your inventory.	Reposition Once per turn, gain an additional move action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon.	Return Fire When targeted by enemy fire, automatically fire back with your primary weapon once per turn.	Serial A powerful chained shot ability. For every kill made with your primary weapon, your actions will be refunded but your damage and crit chance will be reduced for every subsequent attack.
Steady Hands If you did not move last turn, gain +10 Aim and +10 Critical chance.	Resilience Enemy attacks against you suffer a -30 penalty to critical hit chances.	Run and Gun Take an action after dashing.
Dedicated Suppression Taking damage no longer cancels Suppression and Area Suppression.	Shadowstep This soldier does not trigger overwatch or reaction fire.	Shadowstrike While concealed, gain +50 bonus aim and +50 bonus critical hit chance when attacking enemies.	Stiletto Shots fired with your primary weapon pierce 3 armor.
Will To Survive Enemy damage is reduced by 1 when in cover and attacked through that cover. Also grants 5 will.	Whirlwind If you hit with a melee attack during your turn, gain a bonus move.	Untouchable If you score a kill during your turn, the next attack against you during the enemy turn will miss.