I read that bug thing, its possible as I have seen pds be unable to kill a aeon tank with bodabooms, but then again I have seen bodabooms die. Ive also noticed that boda's themselves dont repair that well.
Bodaboom's are bugged,and also, you said Aeon tanks have no health upgrades? Don't forget Chrome health.
Between Chrome health, shields, badaboom, and veterancy Aeon land units are designed to be extremely durable. Perhaps not this durable due to Bodaboom bug, but you cannot say they have no health upgrades.
Yes yes, thank you all very much for repeating yourself ad infinitum. Anyway, I'm not sure if anyone tested this, but when illuminate PERSONAL shields reflect shots, the AoE effect doesn't work. If anyone would test that or just look at replays then i'll be glad.
To anyone testing the above statement, don't do it with artillery shots because arty hits the ground and not directly the units, whilst the AC 1K and KK guns are more or less shots that need to initiate the AoE with a direct hit.
TL;DR : test if personal shields reflect AC1K AoE shots.