The fated day had co. The final matches of the first round for Group A had comnced.
First up, the Ginetzy Battalion fought against the Heartfall Battalion.
Each of them had learned from their previous battles against the other battalions. They were both aware that they had exposed much of their strength and strategies in the previous matches, so they adapted their ch rosters and battle approaches for their final bout in this round.
The Heartfall Security Enterprise already regretted the decision to take part in this enormous event. Its battalion was pretty much guaranteed to end their tournant participation today. Still, it would be far too shaful for the Heartfallers to bow out of this grand event with not a single win to their na!
To that end, the Heartfall Battalion deployed an unusual mix of chs consisting of a large amount of offensive knight chs!
The rcenary organization wasn't short of chs, so it could easily swap out their previous machines for hundreds of offensive knight chs.
Everyone in the audience was completely surprised by the abrupt change in strategy. Although the Heartfallers looked as if they had gone mad, there was a certain brilliance to their extre decision.
"These knight chs are not only tough, but also moderately fast! Many of them will be able to survive bombardnt long enough to reach the fortified position of the Ginetzy Battalion. As long as they can breach the shield and get inside, they can likely withstand several suicide explosions before they are finally taken out of the fight!"
The Heartfallers abandoned all nuance and committed to the most stupid, foolproof battle strategy to squeeze out a win!
If they succeeded, they would have been able to redeem themselves.
If they lost, then the Heartfall Security Enterprise would probably find it much more difficult to conduct business in the Red Ocean!
It was a pity that this gamble failed. The Ginetzy Battalion did not change much, but deployed additional knight chs that successfully stalled the advance of a lot of Heartfall chs!
This enabled the Ginetzy ranged chs to fire their weapons with impunity for a significantly longer ti. Though the Ginetzys lost a lot of chs at the end, they still managed to bury all of the Heartfall chs!
The Larkinsons weren't happy with this result. With 2 wins, the Ginetzys had a good chance coming out on top when the tie-breaker rules went into effect.
"You've seen what happened in the arena." Commander Casella addressed her fellow Larkinson ch pilots. "The Ginetzy Battalion has 2 wins now. If we don't beat the Quizlams, we'll end up with the sa amount. It will be up to the referees to decide which battalion in Group A gets to advance to the next round. Will you allow these referees to decide our fate or will you take matters into our own hands?"
"We'll beat the Quizlams!"
"We're not going to let any of these clowns get their way!"
"Then stick to the plan and follow your instructions! The Quizlams may have been able to abuse the Heartfallers, but we are ready for their tricks!"
Once both the Larkinson Battalion and the Quizlam Battalion entered the arena, the dynamic battlefield changed into an odd environnt.
Entire city structures had risen up from the floor as the entire environnt began to resemble a dense urban tropolis!
"Damnit! Why a city of all possibilities?!"
"This is a paradise for the Quizlams!"
"Shut up and focus on your own duties! We've already accounted for this scenario. The Quizlams may favor urban battlefields, but the cramped terrain makes it easier for us to get close to them as well."
The urban battlefield for this match had several important consequences.
First, long-ranged detection was considerably less effective because all of the reinforcents were packed with dense materials and electronic systems.
Second, aerial chs had to watch their movents carefully and could not fly as freely as before. The only way for them to move without hindrance was to fly above all of the structures, but they couldn't do much in that situation.
Third, ranged chs were severely constrained due to all of the obstacles in their way. The artillery chs had it worse as they needed to knock down a lot of structures before they could land their attacks on distant targets.
Although the Quizlam Battalion probably felt at ho in a highly urbanized battlefield, the Larkinson Battalion wasn't all that bothered by it. Commander Casella quickly issued a series of instructions as she thought about how her n could defeat the Quizlams.
"We're not good at entrenching ourselves, but we can't split up and chase after every shadow either. We need to keep moving around. We also have to stay close enough to each other to prevent our chs from getting defeated in detail."
The Larkinson Battalion did just that. Different ch companies began to spread around to an extent so that they were able to occupy multiple adjacent streets at the sa ti.
While Casella preferred to concentrate all of her troops on the sa avenues, the city didn't offer enough space to do so. Forcibly cramming 500 chs in a single street would only make them all vulnerable to wide-area attacks!
Most of the chs stayed on the ground though the Valkyrie Redeers and the Ferocious Piranhas had taken flight. They needed to remain mobile in order to remain effective and would only beco more constrained if they had to rely on their legs to move around.
"The smoke is coming!"
The Quizlam Battalion had already acted as quickly as possible. Their chs erected strong interference fields and launched a large amount of canisters that released signal-blocking particles in the air. Every conventional sensor system could no longer return anything solid beyond a hundred ters while communication signals didn't fare much better!
Under these conditions, the outlying Larkinson ch units beca more vulnerable to concentrated attacks.
"We're under attack!"
A barrage of physical projectiles erged from the mist and struck the chs of this isolated formation!
"Hunker down!"
Fortunately, all of the outer ch units of the Larkinson Battalion possessed plenty of defensive chs. The Bright Warriors in knight ch configuration all planted their tower shields on the street and withstood the withering fire while providing cover to other friendly chs.
The other Larkinson chs didn't try to charge in the direction of the enemy attack. They had learned from the Heartfallers that they would just stumble into an ambush prepared by the Quizlam Battalion.
The problem was that hunkering down was not a permanent solution. Sure, the knight chs were able to block the attacks for now, but their shields and armor would get chewed through eventually.
Though the rifleman chs in the sa unit tried to fire back with their luminar crystal rifles, all of that firepower wouldn't make a difference if they didn't know where to aim!
This was where the two Transcendent Punishers ca in. The Ylvainan chs soon fired out guiding positron beams and gauss rounds at certain directions.
Just an instant later, the Avatar ranged chs followed suit!
Now that they had practiced this combination play, the cooperation between the Avatars of Myth and the Eye of Ylvaine was much better than before.
Yet beyond the sight of their sensors, their attacks mostly hit nothing but useless structures!
It turned out that the Quizlam ranged chs had always made sure to hide as much of their fras behind the corners of different street structures as possible.
Since the arena simulated a prosperous second-class city, the massive buildings were tough enough to withstand a lot of collateral damage. Due to their sheer size and mass, the structures were not that much weaker than ch armor!
"Our return fire is not hitting enough Quizlam chs!" An Ylvainan ch lieutenant said.
How he knew that without being able to observe their distant attackers through the mist was a mystery, but none of the Larkinsons tangled over this little detail.
The right response to this was to beat a slow and steady retreat towards the main elents of the Larkinson Battalion.
However, that would be a mistake! The Larkinson ch units would just contract further and surrender all of their initiative to their opponents.
Although the ch pilots all knew what they had to do, it was quite difficult for them to maintain their cool while they let the annoying Quizlam ranged chs fire at them with impunity. It was not in the nature of the Larkinsons to let their opponents have their way!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Fortunately, the organized response of the Larkinson Battalion had finally co!
A moderate distance away, a group of Valkyie Redeers and Ferocious Piranhas swooped down from above and overtook the Quizlam chs that had been firing their kinetic weapons at the distant Larkinson ch unit!
The ranged chs did not expect the Larkinsons to be able to figure out their locations so soon, let alone communicate their findings to different ch units.
In order to make sure that the Larkinson Battalion didn't rely on wired communications or other ECM-resistant communication thods, the Quizlam Battalion had secretly snuck in a lot of stealth chs throughout the Larkinson ch elents!
"How is this possible?!"
"Warn the others!"
"It's too late! Our other sniping units are also under attack!"
Almost a hundred Quizlam ranged chs were being assaulted by a similar number of Larkinson aerial chs.
In each and every case, the Larkinson chs responded quickly and managed to find the actual positions of the Quizlam chs despite the latter relocating after every few shots!
Though the Quizlam ranged chs along with their lee escorts fought back as best as possible, the Flagrant Vandals and Penitent Sisters combined both their glows and managed to torture and terrify the minds of the Quizlam ch pilots to such an extent that they had lost a lot of focus!
"Hahaha, these Quizlam chs aren't so scary now that we're able to pinpoint their coordinates!" A Vandal ch pilot laughed.
The Quizlam chs excelled in situations where they had the upper hand. Yet now that they had lost control, their weakness in direct combat imdiately beca apparent. The Larkinson chs were simply better now that they had successfully closed in on their opponents!
"Thanks for leading us to the right location, Sisters."
"It is of no issue."
The Penitent Sisters hadn't just deployed their Valkyrie Redeers this ti. While the won were very fond of this ch model, they also brought in an additional ch model this ti!
Originally designed for the Hex Army, the sole Cherub ch in their midst was a highly conspicuous newcor in the Larkinson ch lineup.
The Larkinson Clan never saw the need to employ this ch model until now. The auxiliary ch was small, cheap, fragile and practically defenseless against enemy chs.
Yet it possessed one powerful capability that was extrely useful for this match.
Every Cherub ch was able to maintain contact with other Cherub chs as long as they were in the sa star system!
In a battlefield like this, it was no problem for the dozens of Cherub chs that were spread throughout the different Larkinson ch elents to stay in contact with each other. By relying on the spiritual communication network maintained by the Superior Mother, these auxiliary chs completely negated every attempt of the Quizlams to cut off the Larkinson Battalion's communications!
This effectively ant that despite all of the effort the Quizlams had put into blinding and isolating the individual Larkinson elents, Commander Casella and every other clansn remained in full contact with each other!
Honestly speaking, the Larkinson Clan could have relied on other thods to achieve the sa effect if it really wanted to. The problem was that it was much harder to explain why the Larkinsons were able to maintain contact with each other through all of the interference.
The Cherub ch model was already a familiar product to the ch Trade Association. Hundreds of thousands of them were being employed each day across the frontlines of the Komodo War. The Hexers maintained a distinct coordination advantage in large and complex battlefields with the help of this old male-oriented auxiliary ch model.
This wasn't the only surprise the Larkinson Battalion had in store against their current opponent. Now that the Quizlams were caught off-balance, Commander Casella quickly issued her next command.
"Swat the flies!"
Shortly afterwards, more than a dozen hidden Quizlam chs situated close to the Larkinson chs beca exposed as their stealth systems malfunctioned.
Even though the Quizlam stealth chs had been clever by staying out of the direct line of sight of any Transcendent Punishers, the Larkinsons still managed to attack them without giving them a chance to retreat.
The Devious chs briefly beca exposed as well once they slipped their daggers through the backs of their oblivious Quizlam counterparts.
The Devious was another exclusive Hexer ch design that the Hexadric Hegemony used to good effect! Although their stealth systems weren't top-of-the-line, the Quizlam stealth chs didn't specialize in detection.
Yet even if that was the case, how could the Larkinsons detect all of their hidden elents? Was the Larkinson Battalion's sensor technology much more advanced than the Quizlams had realized?
It was too bad that the Larkinsons weren't in the mood to answer their questions… Scores of sneaky Quizlam chs quietly t their end as they were abruptly rooted out without warning.
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