MEC Trooper (EU2012)

MEC Trooper

The MEC Trooper is a new class of soldier that is introduced by the Enemy Within DLC. A MEC Trooper requires Meld and can be created from any of your existing soldiers (from any class) after building the Cybernetic Lab. The soldier will lose all of its existing abilities but see its HP increase and will have its own abilities tree, starting with Collateral Damage.

MEC Troopers required specialized armor to be deployed, in the form of the Mechanized Exoskeleton Cybersuit (MEC Suit), and will carry a Primary Weapons such as the Minigun, Railgun and a Particle Cannon. MECs can't carry regular items but the MEC Suit offers a choice of two different Tactical Subsystems at each level that allows them to field Flamethrowers, Grenade Launchers, Restorative Mist and other tactical options.

MECs can't use Cover like regular soldiers.

Abilities

As part of the conversion process, each soldier turned into MEC will gain a bonus ability based on its former class and will retain its previous rank, replacing its previous abilities with MEC ones:

• Heavy - Body Shield - The nearest visible enemy suffers -20 Aim and cannot critically hit this unit.
• Assault: Shock-Absorbent Armor - Damage received from enemies within 4 tiles is reduced by 33%.
• Sniper: Platform Stability - Any shots taken without moving have +10 Aim and +10% critical chance.
• Support: Distortion Field - Nearby allies in cover receive +10 Defense.

Rank	Ability
Squaddie	Collateral Damage Area of effect attack that destroys most cover and hits all eligible targets for 34% damage. This attack cannot cause critical hits.
Corporal	Advanced Fire Control Shots from Overwatch no longer suffer any Aim penalty.	Automated Threat Assessment Confers +15 Defense when in Overwatch.
Sergeant	Vital-Point Targeting Confers 2 bonus damage against targets that have been autopsied.	Damage Control When the MEC takes damage, all further damage will be reduced by 2 on the following 2 turns.
Lieutenant	One For All When activated, the MEC becomes a high cover element. Moving or using an arm-based weapon will return the MEC to standard posture.	Jet Boot Module When activated, confers the ability to jump to normally inaccessible heights for the rest of the turn.
Captain	Expanded Storage Allows additional uses of Restorative Mist, Grenade Launcher and Proximity Mine Launcher in each mission, and increases primary weapon base ammo by 50%.	Repair Servos Confers 2 health recovery at the start of each turn. A total of 6 health can be regenerated per battle.
Major	Overdrive Firing the MEC's primary weapon as the first action no longer ends the turn.
Colonel	Absortion Fields Any hit that makes 33% more damage to the MEC's maximum health is reduced to that number.	Reactive Targeting Sensors MEC gets a free shot back at the first enemy who attacks the MEC each turn, providing there's enough ammo do to so.

MEC Trooper Rank Progression

Rank and Stats Bonuses

Class	Squaddie	Corporal	Sergeant	Lieutenant	Captain	Major	Colonel	Total
MEC Trooper	Health Points + 1 Aim + 0 Will + 2	Health Points + 0 Aim + 1 Will + 2	Health Points + 1 Aim + 1 Will + 2	Health Points + 0 Aim + 1 Will + 2	Health Points + 1 Aim + 2 Will + 2	Health Points + 0 Aim + 2 Will + 2	Health Points + 1 Aim + 3 Will + 2	Health Points + 4 Aim + 10 Will + 14

Notes

• Kinetic Punch offers custon Kill animations on Mechtoids, Berserkers, and Sectopods
  • Caution when doing so on Sectopods: their death explosion does do 5 damage now.
• Anything else gets sent flying about 5 squares, often causing colatteral damage to any structure it hits. Enjoy the ragdoll physics.
  • Careful not to accidentally punch a Cyberdisk at an ally.
• Immune to fire, strangulation, and posion.