26 bugs vs. tanks! - giant praying mantis boss!

Dear Readers,

Now it was tanks vs. tanks! Mission 6-7 didn't have the "operation" format but instead was titled "The Battle of Mantidae".

Colonel Diekmann gathered us and told us the Allies were demanding surrender and were ignoring any attempts we were making to contact them. Scouts reported they were spotted in the woods. He said he had no intention of going down without a fight so this was all-out war.

We all got into formation. Ernst was excited at the prospect of fighting another army again.

Aslanov contacted Diekmann and demanded an explanation. He said we had no intention of surrendering. Aslanov called us foolish and blamed us for shrinking them! Diekmann tried to respond but he was already gone.

It was all about to kick off when a giant preying mantis appeared and crushed the Soviet tanks! Aslanov demanded to know if this was our doing. The mantis then crushed Kremmel's tank! Diekmann tried to reason with Aslanov and suggest a temporary truce to deal with the mantis!

Diekmann asked me for help to buy time for our forces to escape by fighting the mantis. We stayed behind while the others retreated. Joachim felt the gravity of the situation but Ernst was pretty excited and wanted to have the big mantis all to ourselves!

We failed the first attempt, even with an SOS attack, so we tried again. We tried to get a pattern going but it wasn't easy, even with a tank of our speed. We didn't really suss out a pattern but we generally tried to go around and turn the turret to shoot as much as we could. We put in an SOS attack and a few more hits until the mantis boss was defeated! It was pretty fast and powerful with a long reach, so it made for a fearsome opponent! We got 510 points and an S rank.

What followed was voiced dialogue and a scene where the groups from the two armies formed an alliance to deal with their situation of survival against the bugs.

After that, there was a scene where our tank went up against a huge stag beetle. The voice then said the alliance would break when normalcy returned.

What followed next, puzzlingly, were the end credits! The names scrolled past, I could see that Natsume actually developed this and... that was that!

Afterwards the level 7 missions unlocked but they were called "Ex missions".

New medal:

Keeper of the Truce - for clearing all the level 6 missions

New bug:

Praying Mantis - the huge boss we had to fight. The info here says they're not the religious type!

I checked out one of the "ex" missions so far. It didn't seem like post-endgame, but Joachim talked about terminating some termites, which has that humorous tone of a post-endgame.

I also noticed that you can play the co-op missions alone, so I'll try them at some point. In any case, it's not the end yet, missions wise. Story wise, I don't think so. Why did they roll credits? It's throwing me off!