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Article #35718Re: My First Lobsterman Mission
From: RandallW
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 07:01
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 07:01
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"Raille" <raille@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:99795e415d15351eaaffd5579be0a108@news.teranews.com... > > I fought a shipping attack once vs lobstermen using gauss rifles and > grenades. > > After what was a rather LONg battle I ended up falling back to the ship and > leaving. with each soldier having 1 extra clip and each lobsterman taking > almost a full clip to knock down I was running out of ammo and had zero > chance of completing the first stage of the mission, let alone stage 2. Now > once you use Sonic Pulsars, one of thos weakens them to the point that 3 > hits from a guass rifle can knock them down. But once again your stepping > into the Sonic research tree. :( > > I think regular grenades just tickle them, but you do get some satisfaction > in throwning the grenade and they do provide some smoke cover. > > Raille > > Since Lobstermen do have some 'armor', i'm wondering how often the Dart Pistol or Jet Harpoon actually penetrate the armor. *plink plink plink*
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "RandallW" <flippetyfloo@fake.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com Subject: Re: My First Lobsterman Mission Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 00:01:51 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <109976r6lgibg5a@corp.supernews.com> References: <c6ngif$e1od5$1@ID-136275.news.uni-berlin.de> <c6p517$e9ilc$1@ID-136275.news.uni-berlin.de> <99795e415d15351eaaffd5579be0a108@news.teranews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit