Giving The Reaper More Equipment - How? Please.

[Twelvefield]

There's been a couple of good threads on how to play the Reaper better. I'm not big on playing the Reaper because I haven't yet figured out a way to give her a Mindshield. Is there a non-modded way to give the Reaper more equipment - or any equipment other than her armour and rifle? I've probably missed something simple and obvious.

[Lemurian1972]

Some Reapers get Tactical Rigging at random, allowing you to equip 1 item if you pay the AP for the skill.

[Ashcarr]

The most they can have is one item and, like Lemurian said, only if they get Tactical Rigging.

[Demon of Razgriz]

I know its not the same, but if you have a reaper with a bondmate and the bond is at (I think, level 3) then it can act similar to a mindshield, because if you move the bondmate next to the reaper, it cures the reaper of any psychic effects.

[Twelvefield]

Yeah, I've got a psi soldier that has some effect like that.

In terms of getting Tactical Rigging at random... does that mean I have to keep killing off my Reaper and using the Mission to get a new one until I roll one that had Tactical Rigging... sort of a loathesome Reaper Roulette? If so, I am intrigued.

Thanks for these ideas and info!

[XeidiDent]

Some of these skills, like Tactical Rigging for the Reaper and Bladestorm for the Templar, for instance, shouldn't be random in my opinion.

[Elder]

Use the mod that allows u to respc xcom bonus abilities into what u want. I got reaper, bladestorm, shadowstep and fortress for my templar that way

[learnedhand]

Originally posted by XeidiDent:

Some of these skills, like Tactical Rigging for the Reaper and Bladestorm for the Templar, for instance, shouldn't be random in my opinion.

Agreed, especially for tactical rigging on the reaper. My current L/I campaign, both of my reapers don't have tactical rigging and their utility is much less. Can't use them as support, their rifle becomes more or less useless.