The samurai troll held the Panther assault cannon to his shoulder and sighted on a group of mercenaries coming up on the right from between a cluster of abandoned vehicles. The Panther whooshed a jet of hot flame out the back of the superplast warhead as the liquid propellant caught. It sizzled into the cluster of cars less than a heartbeat later. The explosion rocked the cars and threw armored bodies to the ground.