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[The Fifth Horseman]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(laiocfar @ May 15 2007, 05:28 AM) [snapback]290299[/snapback]</div>

superior combat tactics can deal with them, [/b]

That, and a whole heck of reloading.
But in the end, I managed to beat a mission against _eight_ of the damn things - 230 score, two live specimens captured, no casualties. k:
The last one was tough, however... the thing was outside the sub, on my flank and kept hiding until I dealt with the rest of its kin.

Lessons learned on battling the lobsters:
1. Harpoon rifles barely itch them. However, since Lobstermen are so tough, it's quite possible to stun one rather than kill it with a harpoon shot. Instant live specimen. :bleh:
2. Gas Cannons are much better. HE ammo = lots of hurting Lobsters.
3. Torpedo launchers are useful to soften them up... think Large Torpedoes.
4. Hydrojet cannons are good for providing major volume of firepower. HE ammo does a good job in compensating the inaccuracy of automatic fire, too.
5. SWS can find some use. I kept going around the corner of the USO with an Aquajet SWS, firing a snap shot against a Lobsterman guard and then backing out... the dumb thing didn't move and was just so much easy kill when my aquanauts arrived.
6. Grenades are useful - that's for sure. Except Lobstermen eat them up like crackers - takes seven to nine grenades to down one.
7. STUN RODS!!! When carried by fast soldiers (circa 70 AP), they are probably the fastest way of disposing of Lobstermen. Takes two hits to down one, so either you'll need to have more stun troopers or soften the target with torpedoes and such before the stun trooper jumps out on it... and of course a frontal attack is suicide, so get its' attention distracted and use explosives to create a smokescreen for your trooper to advance through.

I managed to survive that battle (even the SWS, though I'm not quite sure how it was still running near the end... got shot up real bad), and the changes in equipment turned out the right way to go. Next terror site (Gillmen/Deep Ones) and a touched-down small USO (Gillmen again) went in a pinch.