Lance Assassin

Lance Assassin
Lance Assassin
Gender	Female
Race	Human
Location	Parched Fathoms

Lance Assassins are an enemy introduced in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. They are female members of the Crimson Lance and wield two plasma swords as weapons. They are exceptionally swift and dexterous, incorporating acrobatics such as back flips making them extremely difficult to target.

Background

For potentially disrupting Atlas' monopoly on alien weapon technology, Atlas posts wanted posters of the Vault hunters and employs the Crimson Lance and their Assassins to hunt them down.

Strategy

Lance Assassins are armed with two plasma swords for melee and shuriken for ranged combat.

Although possessing high movement speed and dealing heavy damage, they have relatively low health and can be taken out with a few critical hits from a sniper rifle, and are severely slowed when dazed. If landing a critical hit proves to be difficult, corrosive weapons are very effective, even against Badasses and Omega Assassins.

A good tactic to employ in order to minimize damage taken from Assassins is to stay out of melee range, while laying down constant fire, as Assassins will not use their ranged attacks when stunned or dazed.

Badass Assassins

Badass versions of the Lance Assassins may appear but they are very rare. They wear black armor rather than the red armor of the regular Lance Assassins. They have a ranged attack that they throw spikes at medium range. Badass Lance Assassins may appear in the respawnable group of assassins which attack you at the southern Lance blockade in The Ridgeway or just before the Crimson Armory at the Road's End.

Quotes

• "Execute attack order Gamma." (after spotting a target)
• "Target identified. Move!" (after spotting a target)
• "There they are. Attack!" (after spotting a target)
• "We've got 'em. Go! Go! Go!" (after spotting a target)
• "Omnicron pattern. Go! Go!" (after spotting a target)
• "I've got severe injuries." (after taking significant damage)
• "Lost an operative!" (after having another Assassin killed in front of them)
• "Operative down!" (after having another Assassin killed in front of them)
• "Avenge me, sisters!" (upon dying)
• "Mission failed!" (upon dying)
• Gurgling sound (upon dying)

Trivia

• The Lance Assassin is very similar in design and movement to the female assassins from Half-Life. Gearbox Software's first game was the Half-Life expansion Opposing Force.