Skirmisher (LWOTC)

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The Skirmisher is a highly mobile unit specializing in Hit-and-Run style combat.

Class Overview

Weapons

Primary: Bullpups

Secondary: Ripjacks

Abilities

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Rank	Ability
Squaddie	Ripjack Slash Attack an adjacent target with your Ripjack. Does not end turn.	Grapple (Skirmisher) Deploy a grappling hook to move quickly to an elevated position.	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.
	Hussar	Judge	Tactician
Lance Corporal	Battlefield Awareness If you score a kill during your turn, the next attack against you during the enemy turn will miss. Upon usage, the ability goes on a 3 turn cooldown.	Justice Use the Grapple to pull a humanoid target to you and deliver a Ripjack strike.	Total Combat Throwing a grenade or using an item no longer ends the turn and grenades have no cooldown. In addition, you can throw grenades 2 tiles further and their radius is increased by 1. Grants a Grenade-only slot. Grants +5 aim and +1 mobility.
Corporal	Reflex When fired upon, gain one extra action on the next turn. Triggers no more than once per turn. Attacks against you suffer a -15 penalty to critical hit chances.	Wrath Use the Grapple to pull yourself to an enemy and deliver a Ripjack strike.	Packmaster Grants +1 charge to every utility item and grenade equipped.
Sergeant	Combat Presence Grant an extra action to a squadmate.	Implacable If you score one or more kills on your turn, you are granted a single bonus move.	Chain Shot Take a shot with an aim penalty of 10. If you hit the target, you take another shot on the target automatically.
Staff Sergeant	Whiplash Attack an enemy with an electrical lash. This attack has a 4 turn cooldown.	Damn Good Ground Confers +10 aim and +10 defense against targets at a lower elevation.	Formidable Your gear includes an extra layer of protection, granting 2 bonus ablative hit points and 50% less damage from explosive attacks.
Tech Sergeant	Manual Override Lowers all ability cooldowns on a selected ally soldier by up to 3 turns.	Interrupt A powerful form of Overwatch. Instead of firing automatically, perform any single action. Free action.	Retribution Free Ripjack attacks on any enemies that enter or attack from melee range.
Gunnery Sergeant	Full Throttle Gain +3 mobility with every kill this turn. Lasts 2 turns, including the current one.	Judgement Has a chance to panic any enemy that attacks this unit. The higher the will of this unit, the higher the panic chance.	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.
Master Sergeant	Lethal You do 2 additional points of base damage and 1 additional point(s) of bonus critical damage with your primary weapon.	Reckoning Unlocks the Ripjack Charge.	Battlelord After each enemy in line of sight takes a turn, take an action after their turn is completed. No action points will be refunded (e.g. from Hit and Run).

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
Aim Assist Gain additional +15 aim and +15 crit against holotargeted units.	Flashbanger Grants 1 free flashbang item to your inventory.	Combat Engineer Your explosives do significantly greater damage to cover objects and other things on the battlefield.	Close Combat Specialist Fire a free reaction shot with your primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires.
Covert Enemies have 25% smaller detection range against you.	Hail of Bullets Unleash a hail of bullets that is guaranteed to hit your target, but uses a lot of ammunition.	Coup de Grâce Bonus to hit, damage, and critical chance with your weapon against a disoriented, stunned or panicking enemy.
Cutthroat Your melee attacks against biological enemies ignore their armor and have a +15 critical chance and do +2 critical damage.	Hard Target Gain 5 dodge per enemy you can see, up to a maximum of +30.	Evasive Start each mission with 100 bonus dodge. The bonus is removed after you take damage for the first time.	Crusader's Rage Gain 25% damage boost for every 25% HP missing, up to 50% damage boost. Reduce wound recovery times for this soldier by 6 HP.
Dedication Free action. Gain 2 mobility and ignore reaction fire for the rest of the turn. Has a 4 turn cooldown.	Infighter Gain 40 dodge against attacks within four tiles.	Executioner Confers +15 aim and +15 critical chance against targets at half or less of their original hit points.
Deep Cover If you did not attack this turn, hunker down automatically.	Locked On Gain +20 aim and +10 crit for successive shots at the same enemy unit.	Impulse Your ranged attacks gain 10 aim and 10 critical chance if you have moved this turn.	Disabling Shot Stun enemies with a precise shot, with a bonus stun duration if the shot crits. The shot can not do critical damage.
Ever Vigilant If you spend all of your actions on moves, you are granted an automatic overwatch shot at the end of the turn.	Low Profile Makes partial cover count as full.	Inspire Agility Give a friendly unit 30 Dodge until the start of your next turn. Whenever you kill an enemy, you gain an extra charge. Usable once per turn. Starts with one charge, and is a free action.
Field Medic Equipped medikits have 2 extra charges.	Marauder Standard shots are not turn-ending, allowing for shooting then moving or shooting twice on a turn.	Lock 'N Load Kills with your primary weapon restore 1 ammo.	Hunter's Instincts Ranged attacks against flanked enemies deal +2 damage.
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.	Paramedic Unlocks an ability to perform a dash move to use a medikit on an ally (this ability still costs 1 action and is non-turn ending). Gain a free medikit. Equipped medikits have 2 extra charges.	Open Fire Your ranged attacks gain 10 Aim and 10 Crit against targets that are at full health.
Grazing Fire Missed shots with your primary weapon have an additional roll to become a graze.	Return Fire When targeted by enemy fire, automatically fire back with your primary weapon once per turn.	Overkill Your ranged attacks deal +2 more damage to units at 50% HP or less.	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.
HEAT Warheads Your grenades now pierce up to 2 point(s) of armor and shred 1 additional point(s) of armor.	Shadowstep This soldier does not trigger overwatch or reaction fire.	Parkour The cooldown for the Skrimisher's Grapple is reduced by one turn.
Lick Your Wounds Hunker Down restores 2 health when used, up to a maximum of 8 per mission, and removes poison, burning, and acid burning.	Shooting Sharp Your ranged attacks gain +2 armor piercing and +15 aim against units in cover.	Rapid Deployment Activate this ability before throwing or launching a support grenade, and the throw will not cost an action.	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.
Shadowstrike While concealed, gain +50 bonus aim and +50 bonus critical hit chance when attacking enemies.	Smoker Grants one free smoke grenade item to your inventory.	Ready For Anything Enter overwatch after firing a turn ending standard shot with your primary weapon.
Target Focus Your ranged attacks gain +10 aim and pierce 1 armor against unflankable enemies.	Survival Instinct Gain 20 Defense and 20 Crit chance while injured.	Resilience Enemy attacks against you suffer a -30 penalty to critical hit chances.	Stiletto Shots fired with your primary weapon pierce 3 armor.
Zone of Control All enemies within the soldier's 5 tile radius suffer penalties of -15 Aim and -4 Mobility.	Trench Warfare If you get at least one kill during your turn, automatically Hunker Down at the end of it.	Tradecraft This soldier has significantly reduced infiltration times while on missions.