Gunner

The Gunner is trained to use heavy automatic weapons, able to cover the squad with suppressive fire or inflict significant damage in direct attacks.

Gunners are heavy weapons soldiers that have specialized in Cannon use. They have a number of perks related to the cannon and suppression (with Suppression and Area Suppression as baseline class abilities).

"SAW Gunner" specialized Gunners invest in the raw direct damage potential of the cannon, essentially becoming a mobile heavy rifleman that can exploit a single target with multiple or unavoidable attacks, but have less raw battle control potential when using their weapons to suppress the enemy.

"Machine Gunner" specialized Gunners behave as mid-line fire support soldiers with enhanced and highly effective suppressive fire, capable of pinning an enemy squad down and victimizing any enemies dumb or desperate enough to try and break cover, but do not share in the raw single target damage potential of their SAW counterparts.

Cannons have an aim penalty at very short range, so Gunners carry a combat knife for close quarters defense. Gunners also enjoy many options in their alternate perks for improving their survivability and utility in combat, allowing them to share the frontline with Assaults and Rangers without breaking a sweat.