[WOTC] Scamper For XCOM Scouts

If an XCOM soldier has a Phantom or Shadow ability, and their concealment gets broken during enemy turn – usually by a patrolling enemy pod – the soldier will receive a Move-only action to escape potential flank shots. The enemy pod’s scamper actions are postponed until you move the soldier, or press the "End Turn" key.

That Move Action is not free – if you use it, the soldier will have one fewer action at the beginning of next turn.

This applies only when the concealment is broken. If there was no concealment, and a patrol wanders on your flank, they can still take their flank shots.

This mod exists to address one specific problem – my concealed forward scouts being found and killed by enemy pods that would suddenly decide to patrol right on top of them. I don’t mind being penalized for my tactical mistakes, but I don’t want my scout to get shot and killed just because of the unpredictable enemy patrol routes.

Beaglerush Maneuver is when you set your concealed squad in Overwatch, but leave one soldier out of cover, hoping that an enemy pod patrols into them and breaks squad concealment, springing the Overwatch Trap. This tactic is super effective, because that means that the enemy pod gets a full Overwatch ambush while they are out of cover, and then next turn you also get full actions to clean up any survivors.

Anti-Beaglerush Maneuver is the internal name of the feature that makes freshly activated enemy pods sometimes shoot your exposed soldiers instead of moving.

Scamper For XCOM Scouts mod is sort of a Anti-Anti-Beaglerush Maneuver, but only for soldiers that specialize in stealth. You technically can abuse this mod to always prevent Anti-Beaglerush Maneuver from happening, but that will mean losing your Phantom concealment or a charge of Shadow, so I think it balances out in the end.

This mod is configurable through:

By default, only soldiers that have Phantom or Shadow can receive a bonus action when their concealment is broken. You can add more abilities to the list, or make the Scamper available to all soldiers by removing the list entirely. You can also change what kind of Action Point the soldier receives, and tweak some other aspects of this ability.

You can configure the mod to be able to activate during your turns as well, but my tests have produced some weird behavior. The ability is based on Skirmisher Interrupt, and it’s not really meant to be used during your turns. For that purpose it’s better to use XCOM Scamper instead.

• [WOTC] XCom Scamper – XCOM units receive scamper actions if you reveal an enemy pod during your turn by moving a soldier.

None. Can be safely added mid-campaign, but it will take effect only during the next tactical mission.

No known conflicts.

Big thank you to MrNice and Xymanek(Astral Descend) for helping me implement this mod exactly as I wanted.

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