The three siege-tanks on the horizon, as soon as they noticed the two beefier NC's firing, began counter-attacking with their own armaments. The reasonably damaged command tank focused its' forward-cannons fire on the Mad-E. The second one, in full condition, aimed all four of its' cannons upwards and began firing a barrage of shells towards the Swarm. The third one, equipped with four vulcans instead, aimed two barrels upwards at the swarm of missiles, and the other turret tried to shoot down Mad-E's artillery shell.

The swarm of missiles was thinned out decently, but a few still hit #1, and in its already damaged state the missiles fully disabled its aft turret. The lobbed shell wasn't hit thankfully, and the three tanks were decently damaged by the large cluster of NC-grade explosives. The fairly large amount of shells aimed at Swarm began to impact, a total of three hitting its' lower portions, putting one hell of a dent in its' left leg and damaging its' ability to stay stable. The shells going for Mad-E slammed very hard into her hull, the first few merely putting dents, but the latter half actually doing fairly severe damage. Her right shoulder was hit, missing her cluster-mortar directly but nearly penetrating into the ammo storage of it, and her autocannon was also directly impacted, one barrel was shot away, but it was still technically 'functional'. This was bad, she needed to begin evasive maneuvers, or something!

Akula 1 and Akula 2 began attack-runs after letting the NC's fire the first shots, Akula 1 and 2 went left and right respectively, but they both focused on the 'Point Defense' tank, as that what was most dangerous to them. They fired off their rocket-pods, swarms of the things started to impact Siege Tank #3, a few hitting its' frontal turret enough to blow off its' left vulcan. They used their maneuvering thrusters to dodge incoming counter-fire.

The duo escorting the Paragon Hover-train were having a somewhat better, if boring mission. That is, until a new radar contact came. Wessex's higher-grade sensors could easily see it was an NC. Fully red, with digitigrade legs purpose-built for running and jumping, and a 'large-but-thin' overall profile. Its' head was semi-built into the chest, and it looks to be fully armed. At max-range, even with the Wessex's dedicated sensor suite, you can't tell much else. They loitered a bit, then began to move in. Do they really expect to win this?