16 bugs vs. tanks! - acting fast in emergency fuel situations

Dear Readers,

Now for an emergency mission, 5-4: Operation Tank Wound. We were up in the trees again gathering intel when a bee punctured our fuel tank! Joachim said our fuel was going faster than a free drink!

We had to rush but we rushed too much and ended up getting knocked off by a crowd and failed the mission! This happened several times. We also failed because we took too long to finish, which also happened several times. I also learned that found tanks don't save when you fail the mission. I had to make a change somewhere.

I decided to change the chassis from the KV-2 to the Cromwell. Lower defence but more speed and terrain run.

WOW the difference in speed! The stat is maxed out with this one and our tank was zooming along the treacherous twigs of the tree really quickly. We decided to ignore everything that wasn't a bee or beehive, collected the abandoned tank and went straight for the end of the level with 3 seconds to spare. We made it! Strange thing was, we didn't come across any ants this time. We saw plenty of snails though. We got an A rank with 431 points.

New tank:

Soviet KV-1 - said to be the most powerful tank at the onset of the war. Doesn't have the big turret of the KV-2.

Mission 5-5, Operation: Silent Turret. Ernst was shooting away happily, looking to top his record when he noticed we were all out of ammo! He didn't reload earlier. Joachim told him to get his act together but also said the supply squad was at the end of the desert, so we weren't totally out of luck.

This was stressful enough and we had to use an SOS at one point. I thought maybe we could pit the antlions and ants against each other but I didn't see any of them being eaten. We zoomed around as fast as we could while also looking for the abandoned tank. Once we found it, we made a beeline straight for the end of the level, army ants nibbling at our tail and we barely made it. We got 433 points and rank A with a pacifist bonus.

New tank:

French H35 - A smaller looking tank and its gun is smaller looking than the other ones we've found so far. It's said here that it had mobility issues but was flawless otherwise and the Germans seized many of them.

New bug:

Queen Army Ant - Bigger version of the army ant and just about as scary.