Astrova - Recon/Utility Pilot

Get her here: [https://www.nexusmods.com/menace/mods/307](https://www.nexusmods.com/menace/mods/307)

>Portrait art from this resource pack: [https://www.nexusmods.com/menace/mods/115](https://www.nexusmods.com/menace/mods/115) Artist: [https://vgen.co/kenapplepi](https://vgen.co/kenapplepi)

All other assets like badges and perk icons are hand made by me

Astrova is a pilot ceneterd around utility and recon. She is pretty cheap with ok stat, high starting AP but genuinely awful Accuracy (lowest in the game lol). She's best suited to jobs where "hitting your shots" isn't a requirement, like driving a radar ATV or running a scout ATGM light walker. Somewhat of an alternative to Bog for utility, or a pilot alternative to Darby for recon, but with less damage than both of them.


Simple, defines her primary role as a cheap non-shooty pilot. Let you take all the camo and rangefinder you want while not skimping on ERA/Smoke


For when you want to run your ATV/Light Walker as a pseudo scout Darby/Wett. Of note, vehicles, even one built for stealth, will still be more visible than infantry built similarly, but as a trade off they are generally faster and more survivable to small arms, and slightly more well armed than an average scout squad.


Better practice your squats. Astrova can be specialized as a Walker pilot, further capitalizing on their unique ability to deploy, which tracked/wheeled vehicles can not. Walk up right to scout and see things from a high vantage point. Deploy to upgrade your concealment, damage reduction, and accuracy, which she desperately need


Astrova is very much not a shooty pilot and are well suited for light vehicle/weapons, and is especially bad at using high pen single shot weapon with her bottom tier Accuracy (except for the ATGM, which is good on literally anyone). When she must shoot, her shots are still utility focused. Even just grazing a heavy tank with 1 out of 20 shots of a minigun would still allow her to steadily debuff its capability, hitting weakpoints to give it a jamming chance, increase movement cost, or just start a small fire by hitting a fuel line. Let your LBTG Rewa go kill that crippled Heavy Tank while you go do something else.

You can freely choose which Light Defect is caused, so pick your target intelligently. Shooting out a Heavy Tank's Engine and then waddling away on your chicken leg mech is very very funny