Sidewinder (LW2)

Name	Sidewinder Elite	Rank	3
Force Level		14-20	16-20
Pod Max	4
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Armor	0	Health	10/12/12/12
Mobility	16/18/18/18	Detection Radius	12
Aim	75/75/80/80	Armor Piercing	0
Crit Chance	10/15/15/15	Defense	10/10/15/20
Dodge	35/35/40/40	Will	85/90/90/95

Name	Sidewinder Serpens	Rank	2
Force Level		9-14	11-20
Pod Max	4
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Armor	0	Health	7/8/8/9
Mobility	16	Detection Radius	12
Aim	70/70/75/75	Armor Piercing	0
Crit Chance	0/10/10/10	Defense	5/5/10/10
Dodge	30/30/30/35	Will	68/72/72/72

Name	Sidewinder	Rank	1
Force Level		4-9	6-15
Pod Max	4
Armor	0	Health	5/6/6/7
Mobility	15	Detection Radius	12
Aim	65/65/70/70	Armor Piercing	0
Crit Chance	0/0/10/10	Defense	0
Dodge	25/30/30/30	Will	50/55/55/60

The Sidewinder is a more mobile variant of the Viper, which will more often than not attempt to flank your soldiers. Even more fragile and slippery than standard Vipers, they are equipped with a close range plasma weapon that can deal incredible amounts of damage to exposed targets.

Sidewinder Abilities

Ability	Rank Needed
Tongue Pull Grab a target with your tongue and pull them to melee range. Only humanoid targets can be pulled.
Bind and Crush Bind and crush an adjacent humanoid enemy. Allied units can fire upon the immobilized target.
Poison Spit Spit deadly poison at an area.	All Ranks
Shadowstep This soldier does not trigger overwatch or reaction fire.	All Ranks
Hit and Slither Once per turn, gain an additional move action after taking a standard shot at a flanked or exposed target with your primary weapon.	Serpens (Mk2), Elite (Mk3)

• Sidewinders have a slight (+5) accuracy bonus to flanking shots at all ranks.
• Sidewinder AI makes them much more likely to flank and shoot targets compared to standard Vipers.
• Poison spit is a single action and not turn ending, leaving sidewinders like to spit and shoot if they unable to exploit a flank.
• The Sidewinder's plasma weapon has SMG-class range fall-off, resulting in Sidewinders getting close instead of staying back and sniping.

Sidewinder Potential Tactical Dark Events

Ability	Effected Ranks	Chance to Adopt While Active
Conditioning 1	All ranks	75%
Conditioning 2	All ranks	75%
Conditioning 3	All ranks	75%
Veterans	All ranks	25%
Defense	All ranks	33%
Advanced Servos	All ranks	60%
Center Mass	All ranks	16%
Deadshot	All ranks	50%
Hard Target	All ranks	25%
Hunter's Instincts	All ranks	33%
Lethal	All ranks	8%
Will to Survive	All ranks	15%