The Mech Touch

Chapter 6665 Asteroid Belt Skirmishes

The Flagrant Vandals fought hard to prevent the aliens from advancing with ease and collecting more information.

The Ferocious Piranhas, the Stingrippers and the Light Hunters formed a classic combination that allowed the Flagrant Vandal mechs to fare extremely well against other enemy small craft.

They made the aliens fight for every scrap of data. Their increasingly more experienced and veteran mech pilots as well as living mechs frequently outmaneuvered and outfought the clumsy phasefighters.

Yet it did not seem to matter.

The Ferocious Piranhas could dive close and use their space suppressors add-ons to weaken and disrupt the enemy craft in multiple ways.

Yet the light skirmishers had attracted so much notoriety among the alien fighter pilots that the Ferocious Piranhas usually got focused down first!

The Stingrippers were able to evade ranged attacks much better than other mechs by relying on a combination of ECM and the perception distortion effect produced by Kalo, but the value of these capabilities were severely discounted when the native aliens left the light harasser mechs for last.

The Light Hunters possessed excellent sensor and scanning capabilities, allowing them to detect enemy craft through the dense environment of asteroids and space dust with their powerful Samasel Orbs.

Unfortunately, the advance warnings granted by these scout mechs did not help friendly mech units all that much when the aliens deployed so many phasefighters in a wave that pretty much anyone could see them coming.

While the Flagrant Vandals did make use of other mech models to add more throwing weight to their mech legion, most of their machines were still predominantly lightly armored.

They could not evade every attack, nor fight the enemy phasefighter formations with favorable numbers.