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"RandallW" <flippetyfloo@fake.com> wrote in message
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> "DervMan" <dervman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Heavy Thermic Lances, more like - and sometimes they survive one of
these
> > attacks...
>
> It's terrible to fight them until you have heavy equipment.

Heh oh yes!

> Harpoon shots *ploink* *ploink* *ploink* - Aqua grenade *blomp* - More
> Harpoon shots *ploink ploink ploink*
> Another grenade *blomp*....and still not hurt enough for it to pass out.
> I'd run out of Harpoon ammo and would have to leave the battle without a
> single kill or recovery of a stunned/wounded Lobsterman.

I recall the very first ever time I met them.  I'd just equipped my ten very
green agents with the Dart Gun (that feeble pistol jobbie) and a bunch of
grenades, plus the old Thermal Tazor thing.  We'd taken down their small USO
in shallow coral reefs just outside Sydney, and having gotten used to
Gillmen, I was pretty confident I could kick alien butt!

When we found our first Lobsterman, we kinda shot it a few times - dink!
dink! dink! dink! dink!  I only lost one X-Com agent, but it was walking
over grenades and all sorts, so I fought a /cough/ tactical withdrawal...

"Run away!  Run away!"

... to find two more critters between me and the submarine!  We stunned one,
and then started throwing it about the battle scope towards our craft...

Two agents returned with half a Lobsterman! :)

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