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Thunderbolt & Lightning: Very very frightening!

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The game: 2 Tony’s Lightning Blowers simply stood their ground, blocking entrances to the city proper, and – no matter how many missiles I fired at them – seemed to lead a fairly charmed life. As usual, he managed to lose almost all of their main guns by firing the DS rounds so fast it burnt out the barrels... but the reality was that the Waldheims – even throwing all of the missiles they could and deploying infantry to deal with the Wolverines and using their Anti Tank guns to fire at the blowers... well: it wasn’t enough. Their forces had to swing to the flank to try to swing past them the Lighnting Division Blowers. The problem with that was that the Waldheims are not the fastest of units but the Antargrans make them look like Speedy Gonzales... The Antargrans – a great defensive force as a regular army unit – are rather poor in the attack. Having no time to deploy snipers (Tony used his emplaced sniper very effectively to bring down ATGW fire on the Thunderbolts) they spent much of their leadership points trying to get a sniper forward in an APC, leaving the rest of the missile armed APCs at the rear, with the hope that he could deploy and bring down a wave of badly aimed, mass ATGWs. That might have worked if the APC hadn’t been hit by a Lightning Calliope, brewed up and killed all of the crew... The Antargrans spent the rest of their leadership pushing their Colonel’s two heavy Zentaur tanks forwards. They were big (though very slow) and had the nastiest guns on the table. They also had no ATGW defence and both went down, Colonel Brandt with them...