19 minutes ago, Taiowaa said:

^This

wanted to post about this. however you will loose high velocity but actually if i just think of the following attack:

2 Black, 3 White dice

Sharpshooter 1, Pierce 1, Suppressive, Critical 1

Range 4 - unlimited

for 44(Sniper)+36(Mortar)=80 points

Yes please!

Non-force using commanders are going to have a bad time with that.

It will also be pretty good against other sniper teams. Kill the visible sniper and then the last guy is suppressed so he cant pop out and shoot in the same turn

The T-47 would be a good counter against that combination. So there is one upside to it.

Mortar trooper also has three weapon slots (you can see them on the card) so he can also probably just throw like 1-2 E-22 dice in a pinch. I feel like they'll probably be surgeless like the normal Shoretroopers but they could have downgraded to surge > hit, the discussion in the interview was that they didn't want to disincentive you using Fire Support on the mortar to lose it's surge > crit, so Critical was applied instead.