Royal Guard Heavy Gunner

Royal Guard Heavy Gunner
Affiliations	Royal Guard
Weapons	PKM

Royal Guard Heavy Gunner: The most powerful enemy in Far Cry 4. They wield a PKM, which deals a tremendous amount of damage. They are extremely durable and able to soak up several magazines of assault rifle rounds before collapsing. There are several ways to take them out, however. Setting them on fire will deal a large amount of damage to them, meaning that any fire based weapon is effective. Maintaining a distance and shooting them with a sniper rifle is also effective, although being hit with LMG fire can throw off your aim. A daring but effective method of taking them out is to pull out an LMG, get into close range, and unload on their heads. If pulled off, they will quickly die to the burst of fire. If you have a rocket launcher or a grenade launcher (preferably the GL-A87), you can kill them with a couple of grenade launcher rounds or rockets. As with regular Heavy gunners, the Heavy Takedown skill can allow you to kill them with a takedown. Their elite variant is Royal Guard Heavy Gunner Commander.

Trivia

• These enemies are very strong, stronger than the Privateer Heavy Gunner from Far Cry 3, who was able to take around 90 Assault rifle rounds. This enemy is able to cause the player to run through a magazine of the MG42 or MKG before dying, making him the most armored enemy in the Far Cry series, only bested by the flamers from the Shangri-La missions. Those guys are able to take multiple SA-50 rounds to the back of the head and are impossible to kill from behind unless they are weakened into a stagger first from enough damage. However, since they are only encountered normally in said missions, this difference is impossible to notice. Using the map editor, however, reveals they have an alarming amount of health.
• As seen in the picture, they do have Combat knifes, but never use them.
• If an enemy gets too close, Heavy gunners will swing their PKM as if it was a baseball bat, to try to knock their enemy down on the ground.
• One of the lines this unit utters may be a reference to Valve's Team Fortress 2 characted 'Heavy,' where firing his weapon may prompt him to shout 'Cry some more!', which is one of the Heavy's taglines.

Quotes

Royal Guard Heavy Gunner/Quotes

Gallery

Early design

Early model

front and back

face behind helmet

Royal Guard Heavy Gunner plays around with his knife.

Far Cry 4 warriors
Golden Path		Assaulter · Defender · Rocket · Sniper
Royal Army
	Light	Assaulter (Commander) · Beheader · Berserker · Hunter · Molotov Thrower · Sniper (Courier)
	Light-Heavy	Defender (Lieutenant) · RPG Shooter
	Heavy	Heavy Gunner (Commander)
	Other	Snow Soldier · Attack Dog
Royal Guard
	Light	Assaulter (Commander) · Charger · Hunter · Sniper (Courier)
	Light-Heavy	Defender (Lieutenant) · RPG Shooter
	Heavy	Heavy Gunner (Commander) · Heavy Flamer (Commander)
	Other	Snow Operative · Attack Dog
Disciples (Valley of the Yetis)
	Light	Assaulter · Beheader · Berserker · Hunter · Molotov Thrower · Sniper
	Light-Heavy	Defender · RPG Shooter
	Heavy	Heavy Gunner · The Awakened Ones
Rakshasa		Beast · Butcher · Lurker · Scorcher