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Well we can definately favor/disfavor certain classes based on playstyle and there's nothing wrong with that. It could be about the investment given as we do have to prioritize and this normally means we give the best to the classes we lean on the most. In my commander campaign my specialist just ma...

I'm used to floppy rockets from my tenure at LW1.

If you are yellow moving between engagements then a specialist with EV and sentinel is even more valuable at stopping yellow alert actions, which are one of the most dangerous things in the game. Even in the best scenarios all your soldiers will waste their shots on the first target, and its the sec...

Better gauntlets increase napalm x chances from 50% to 65% to 85% and thats a really big deal, not so much with the regular flame attack, but with roust its game-changing. Flame techs scale really well because of this. Roust + napalm-x = a flame-based sting grenade that deals damage and has higher C...

Snapshot is the best pick for an early sniper. It removes their largest flaw so that they are no longer a liability. Getting snipers useful in the early game is far more important then making them better late game, so most my snipers are snapshot. Rapid targetting is good too and it carries well int...

There isn't really any point where they are weak though. Specialists and rangers are the only two classes that start with the ability to fire two shots at LCPL, so just give them a big gun and let them go to town. Once they get trojan every drone is a free kill. Once they get cool under pressure the...

Probably the most badass entrance goes to a flame technical with pistol skills and berserker armor.
Smash the centermost opponent to the ground then..
Quickburn - firestorm - fan the hammer - lightning hands - faceoff

Worth doing just because its cool.

Specialists make great overwatch troopers far earlier then infantry. They get two shots with one rank. Two shots is better then one with overwatch. If you as much as graze the enemy, they lose their yellow alert action. Its really nice to have someone early who can effectively shut down yellow alert...

Everything the flamethrower touches is pretty much out of the fight for 2+ rounds, plus it provides the technical smoke. Kind of puts assaults and rangers to shame. Make high dodge, low defense soldiers into flame technicals. Grab formidable too. They can just run up, burn everything, and tank all t...

Actually I never used sapper. The opportunity cost is too high. I could never justify taking it over rapid deployment. A free action CC is just plain too good to pass up, especially when it results in a 50% stun over a pretty insane AOE. Thise sting grenades end up being clutch every mission, so, I'...

No, I'm using 1.5. I'm not having any problems with shredder. Its not 100% reliable destruction, but I heard sapper isn't reliable either. You have to know exactly what cover it can destroy and its in a limited AOE, right? Shredder working out for me at least and heavy armor is worth the cost IMO. I...

Sapper would be better if the shredder gun didn't exist and if the grenadier could throw destructive grenades as a free action. Shredder guns are amazing cover destruction available to everyone, and support grenadiers just plain have more actions in a given turn. As it is I could build a support gre...

I make grenadiers my primary officers. They don't need to be commanded, can utilize the best of their kit as a free action, are normally safe, and are normally in command range. Command can save shinobis who botch a stab and it can allow technicals to double move with flame, all while CCing several ...

Its back up. Thank you for posting the link to a mirror. I started my campaign the day it went down.