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Amalgamation: Smoker & Grenade Connoisseur(With less requirements)

"I have no idea where these grenades came from, but I suuuuuure hope they go to the alien's faces and not our own. Just hope the smoke make up for the lack of cover we'll have."



- General

Grenade Connoisseur (Secondary)

Have you ever had this thing you really appreciate, and saddened there is not more of it? Fear no more! You'll have enough grenades to regret ever doing that lost mission with them! Weirdly enough it's actually pretty balanced! What it does, exactly? Well, this guy knows about grenades, a LOT about grenades, he is the Connoisseur of Grenades for a reason, buuut he is very pure with them, there is no innate or skill bonus to their range, damage, explosion radius, shred or anything on this spec, only MORE grenades, and hope you like it :), I sure had a blast.

Squaddie
• The classic Launch grenade, it gives you a nade slot.

Corporal, Seargent, Lieutenant deck
• Flashbanger
  
• Random grenade
  
• Curse grenade
  
• Shrapnel grenade
  
• Pyromaniac
  
• Riot control
  
• Acid grenade

Captain, Major, Colonel deck
• Mad bomber(2 random nades)
  
• Electroshock grenade
  
• Adhesive grenade
  
• Fire grenade
  
• Frag grenade
  
• Full kit

Brigadier deck
• Iron rations(more grenades and extra frag grenade)
  
• Fast ball

Smoker (Tertiary)

Well, this is a tertiary spec that is ALL about smokes, and they are very powerful supports. They do lack Grenade Launcher, to compensate they start with a perk that grants them a free smoke, and the ability to use them as non-turn ending. Now your smoke "may" heal, provide more defense, resistance to crits, mental impairments and many others! I have no idea how powerful this is, but I sure know it can't do well alone.

Squaddie
• Smoke and mirrors(Free smoke + smokes don't end turn)

Corporal, Seargent, Lieutenant deck
• Resilient Incense
  
• Smoker (free smoke)
  
• Free smoke (free smoke)
  
• Shadow among clouds (Reduces dmg taken by people with this perk by 33% while concealed or in smoke)
  
• Swirling Fog (Small defense bonus and more dodge)
  
• Fog wall(more smoke per equiped, more defense to flanked allies)

Captain, Major, Colonel deck
• Regenerative mist(regen on people that are in the area)
  
• Dense smoke(more defense)
  
• Combat drugs(more aim and crit for units in the initial area)
  
• Sacred insense(Mindshield-like effect in the area)

Brigadier
• Fortifying insense(Fortress in the area)

- Balance and Ideology

I had no aim when I decided to make Grenade Connoisseur in terms of balance, only an idea that was itching in the back of my head SO HARD that I had to do it. You get SO many options to grenades that it feels insane, but there is always a circumstance, a case. The lack of salvo-like abilities pre-brigadier (Which gives Fastball, a 4 turn cooldown free action skill that makes your next nade free action) make it real hard to pick and use a nade on turn-by-turn case without considering your enemies, cover, allies, and other stuff alike.

Now my good friend Smoker. Discussing with XpanD he also had an idea of making a smoke-related spec, I just put it to the table faster, and had a different approach with the whole smoke and mirror skills at squaddie and guaranteeing smokes the fortress effect at brigadier. It's a very different support that can give you many benefits, powerful even, but they are limited in space, time and quantity, albeit the latter can be increased with a few perks.




- Compatibility and Required Mods.

Compatible with anything that normal amalgamation does
Aaand... that's it! This one is supposed to be lighter

- Link for the other Smoker & Grenade Connoisseur:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3080128671



Outro and Thanks

Always thankful to XpanD for getting me into Spec creation and getting started on my first mod, and, again, for all modders out there for working on this game.

MrCloista for the feedback.

Evilbob, ketaros and Tzarnal for the awesome icons

H4ilstorm for creating Amalgamation classes

Mitzruti, favid and kiruka for their awesome perk packs

As always, if there is anything you found that needs some fixing, i'll take a look around.

Have a good one!