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We keep our infantry back for taking their DropShips later on. We use fighters to strafe the minefields and clear them out. A few mines survive here and there, but not enough to really cause us any problems. Long range tanks, like Hunters and Shrek PPCs and this odd AC2 Carrier we have set up firing lanes and we move our mechs in, under the cover of fighters.
As their mechs focus on our mechs, their DropShips do to. We wait two turns of their combined fire, and then use our fighters to pull out and launch attacks at their two Leopard CVs ,which are among the more powerful arrays of weapons faced against us. Our fighters do some overkill and destroy both Leopard CV entirely, but not before we lose a trio of fighters.
Seeing the dangers, they begin to use DropShips on the fighters, and we get those weapons off our local mech forces. On the three attacking flanks we are pushing forward quickly, and regularly ejecting mechs that start to get close to no return, in order to prevent too many losses. We already lost Cinq company to these dorks, and I don’t want to push too much more.
Our foes are losing, we disable the Seeker DropShip. Mechs disable the Intruder.
Our Fighters are carving into more and more armor on a pair of Leopards.
They are getting pushed hard. They have just 30 mechs left. Now 24. Now 20. Their leader orders a scorched earth response, and they spin and start attacking creates of ammo and salvage and such. We go overheat to lay into them as quickly as possible. They actually destroy one of their own Leopards. Annoying. We accidentally destroy a Gazelle DropShip, but we shut down two wounded Leopard.
Meanwhile we have dropped them to 12 mechs, the 10. Their mechs are finished, and we have taken care of an Overlord.
We order their remaining DropShips to surrender. After a few minutes, they do, except for a Union, which chose to explode, killing three nearby mechs.
They end the battle.
We lose 27 mechs and 11 fighters and 13 tanks. (That number does not include mechs that ejected).
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