I would strongly recommend taking Electroshock and Stun Gunner on your Assault. Also any rookie can shoot at an uncovered enemy with only a slightly lower chance of hitting than your best shooters. Give any soldier a Flashbang, and they can control the enemy give them a grenade and they can guarantee damage. But these 3 tasks can be accomplished by any soldier, including rookies. The last 3 tasks may seem more important than I have ranked them. Shoot’em up (Ranger, Sharpshooter, Gunner) Guaranteed/high probability damage (Assault, Shinobi, Technical, Grenadier, Specialist w/Combat Protocol)

Hack from range - only for hack missions (Specialist)Ĭontrol the enemy (Technical, Gunner, Assault w/Electroshock) Here are those tasks ranked in order of importance:ĭestroy cover at long range (Grenadier, Technical) When your barracks is stronger you will want to continue filling out squads such that you always have soldiers who can perform essential tasks. If there is enough time to infiltrate 6 soldiers, I would add a Shooter (Ranger, Sharpshooter). If the first mission is a Smash & Grab instead, a good squad would be the Shinobi, Grenadier, Gunner and 2 rookies. A good squad would be the Technical, Assault, Specialist, and 2 rookies. Let’s say the first mission is a Hack objective. The Technical is less valuable on Smash & Grabs as he will be unable to ambush the first pod with his flamethrower. On Smash & Grab missions your squad is not concealed and thus the Shinobi is more valuable as he can scout. The Specialist should be reserved for missions with hack objectives. Finally both teams will want a shooter (Ranger, Sharpshooter, Gunner). Likewise the Assault and Shinobi should be separated these are powerful killers that need to get in close, and having one on each squad is nice.

You should make sure that the Grenadier and Technical are on separate squads, as these are the only classes that can destroy cover at long range. After the Gatecrasher mission you will have one soldier of every class, and you will need to group them into 2 squads for the next 2 missions, which usually means taking 3 in each squad, and filling it out with rookies.

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