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It appears that they are using a more tempered rush. They have created a wedge. Their wedge has the WarShip in the back middle, and just in front the Overlord A. They have fighters arrayed split down the middle on the ends, on the sides, between the fighters and Overlord/WarShip, they have their DropShips, with the weakest, 2 Leopards, in front, just to the sides of the wedge.
As Lewis mentions, the wedge is a common naval formation, and one that’s basic, hard to screw up, and will force us to play by their rules, and make adjustments to our plans. However, it’s the wrong formation for a corvette. Your corvette can’t go the speed that it’s capable of, because it’s turtling behind a formation. Imagine a light, 25 ton Commando mech that can normally go 6/8, but to protect itself from infantry, it just goes 3 or 4 hexes at a time, behind a line of infantry. It’s not using its speed right. That Fox is being used in the wrong naval tactic.
They are driving at us, but not so much that they are getting crazy. But as expected, they are driving right at our WarShip.
We modify our plans a bit. We send our fighters to engage theirs, as expected, and hit their wedge. From all sides. Then in front we have the other 40 fighters trying to push into the middle of the wedge, and drive past the Leopards and hit the Overlord A. Right next to the Overlord is two assault ships – the Claymores. So behind our fighters come our small craft, and then our Assault DropShips. We keep a small number by our WarShip (our Fortress, a few small craft, the 8 extra fighters, etc). As a screen and reserve.
The Hamilcar launches its mechs as it closes with a Leopard and it attacks. The combination of mechs and the assault appears to shake the Leopard in the front, and we expect that ship to fall soon.
Meanwhile, our 40 fighters lost some ships, but have broken into their wedge and are pushing towards the Claymores and Overlord A. Our own units are behind.
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