Consider fitting a self-heal into the mix. Your widow will fight like an SR scrapper. Even with soft-capped defenses, you'll take a few hits and you won't have enough HP to shrug them off.
ty for ur input, i'll have to ponder these suggestions... like i said i have a weird dislike of redraw...
You could go the Huntsman route, and stick with three automatic weapons attacks and two grenade attacks (no redraw required). This would give you two area attacks and one cone attack. The only breaks from the chain would be for surveillance and buildup. It plays quite well without the buildup.