"Heckler: a person who interrupts a performer or public speaker with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse." No, it should be slightly infuriating, otherwise it's a waste of a great name :D
Like Oblivion? ;) Well, I do get your point. However, Heckler Hacker is only a profile, it's possible it's not even a defining one. Otherwise they look like your standard mid-filed MI. Hopes are, they have something going for them, something not mentioned on dossier because otherwise they might be a bit under-geared for what is expected from MI in order for them to not suck.
Placing them in a similar role to Locusts/Morans but more robust would work: so, something like Forward Deployment 1/2, Duo, Mimemtism, Nanopulsar and SSL1/2 would be interesting. It'd provide a low SWC harassment unit that reflects Tunguska, while allowing Securitate to me more CG-like rather than Zhangying-like. Nothing super-strong, but a decent unit as a screening option / harraser / button-pusher: a useful role in both Tunguska and Vanilla that we can (unlike PanO with Locusts) support.
But not warbands? That's cool, Morlocks are immune but Mutts and Kuang Shi are valid targets. Seems balanced. :)
Well, to be fair, there are already programs that can target any trooper, so Oblivion Plus is not out of question.
No ARO, B1, WIP -3 and its not even imbalanced.* Solid option for burning a second Short Skill / breaking a Ryuken off Suppression. But otherwise really just an effective way to waste orders. *You can probably go B2 DAM 11 WIP -6 with ARO (on a WIP14 base).
Heckler's are about as close as we'll get to a unit called "Trollololololol." I'm hoping they're way more tricky than just being a Prowler without Camo.
Cybermask as an upgrade on the Heckler Hacker? Or something different: maybe they just use Heckler & Koch, could be a tunguskan company by then. Double Assault pistols?
A non CC focused Impersonator would be interesting, give them lots of disruptive equipment, emauler, mines, jammer type stuff. I'd run it.
Now we know the Special: Fireteam Duo - 1x Heckler & 1x Koch . H&K produces fire arms of all kinds, from pistols to rifles to assault rifle and machine guns, even Grenade Launchers. Feel free to choose your load-out
That would be too good. The only way to balance that is by offsetting the equipment with meh stats or makinn it cost more. Both are not suprs desirable. Don't be surprised to see something with BS11 PH11 WIP13 ARM1 BTS3.
People tend to joke that the art of laying mines is the main martial art of a fiday. Other times it's easier to just pull the trigger on that shotgun. So while CC is actually cool on a unit with such great deployment rules, impersonators with no CC focus sound more like an attempt at optimizing, especially if they still bring a bunch of good equipment and/or stuff like assault pistols and red furies (which are on dossiers).
