Due to a sudden shortage of uninjured personnel of other professions, the response team sent to my second Retaliation mission includes four Sharpshooters. Plus one Ranger and one Grenadier. This is going to be an interesting one.
Keep your ranger concealed as long as possible. Have your squad-sight shooters pick off pods with your "invisible" ranger being the scout for them.
Unfortunately, Retaliation mission. No concealment. And the Ranger got a faceful of Muton power-fist on the second turn, so that really won't work now.
Ranger was actually moving up into what I thought was safe cover. Turns out a small 'pod' was off to the side, with a Muton and a standard ADVENT, and they saw him, moving into uncomfortably close cover. Grenadier lays down suppressing fire on the Muton because fuck that hit chance. A gunslinger-sniper off to the side takes a shot at the ADVENT trooper, misses. Last remaining guy with actions, another sharpshooter, tosses a smoke over the ranger. Come enemy turn, everything goes to crap in a very entertaining manner. Muton forgoes shooting, leaves cover, eats the reaction fire from the Grenadier (no Gauss cannons yet), and pummels the Ranger into chunks from up close. Grenadier, who is shaken-in-recovery, panics, switches cover, and unloads a burst into the Muton. Crits for enough to kill the thing at full health and sends its body flying off into the sunset.
Not to be outdone in suicidal tendencies, the ADVENT trooper moves up and lands a hit on the sharpshooter that missed him the prior turn. Sharpshooter is a gunslinger and has Return Fire, and thus proceeds to blow the ADVENT brains all over the inside of the barn with his gauss pistol.
So now I've got four sharpshooters and one grenadier. Mission still ongoing. I'm really running low on non-sharpshooters. Gotta get more rookies and train them.