The Mech Touch

Chapter 6673 Larkinsons Outmatched

Alien phasefighters used to be considered a joke. At the start, the aliens trotted them out in order to stop mechs from surrounding and whacking their homeships with

impunity.

The alien craft performed badly because the humans were not used to fighting with strike craft to such a refined degree.

The primitive alien strike craft doctrines were adequate for the low-level conflicts that they fought between themselves, but proved completely inadequate when fighting against a race that spent four centuries perfecting the use of mechs in multiple levels of warfare!

No one considered alien phasefighters to be a joke now.

While they still possessed similar characteristics as before, their designs had improved considerably.

Their transphasic energy shields turned into more superior azure energy shields. The native aliens finally began to put more emphasis into training their fighter pilots. The many hard lessons they learned on the frontlines caused them to evolve their strike craft doctrines at a rapid pace.

The relatively small battle taking place in a specific section of an asteroid belt in the Viola Magnifica System taught red humanity that alien phasefighters had moved on from being a joke to becoming a real threat!

Even though only 21 elite phasefighters demonstrated traits that were powerful enough to overwhelm ordinary mechs, that was already more than what this contingent of the Larkinson Army could handle!

Melkor cursed under his breath. If he had been careful enough to bring an expert pilot. along, then the puelmer combination gunships wouldn't have been able to down so many mechs and end the lives of so many clansmen.

However, the expert pilots had their own responsibilities to deal with. There was no good reason to divert them to the asteroid belt where only skirmishes were supposed to take place.

The planners did not anticipate that both sides would consolidate their scattered units in order to conduct a proper fight!