Personal Narrative: Fighting Level 22 Aliens

I play on nightmare. I've a level 30 captain fighting level 22 aliens. Shredding fire with max strength and gunnery can miss on a unlucky roll, and hunters have 162 hp so it's not easy to get a one shot kill without critical. Plasma rifle isn't useless, but it's a little too risky to equip in my game.

I normally max out useful talents as much I can. Most favorite talents are listed first to least favorite talent last on the list.

Right now, I'm in the mood to rush maps for XP so low heat or healing is wanted.

I always collect as many powerful buffs as I can by spreading them around different squad mates. This is good for both rushing and commander's deployment ordnance.

Tank captain (L30)
Slash (L10), warrior's wrath (L10), bladeweave (L3). …show more content…
Honing fire self buff is nice, but again, I don't want the heat.

I see the captain's pistol as a shorter range, and less precise version of the sniper rifle with limited crowd damage. The captain's pistol is also a stronger version of the engineer's pistol in my mind. Pistol is not useless, but hard to bring out in my specialized squad. It just can't compete with burst fire, suppression fire, cripple fire, hydra AoE attacks, and etc.

Team buffer soldier (L30)
Rallying charge (L10), Burst fire (L10), Overwatch