All seemed lost as death and destruction unfolded before the eyes of the defenders.
When the Red Tide Offensive swept across the border regions like an unstoppable force, a lot of defenders struggled to keep their head above water.
The most intense and destructive battles took place in the upper zones. Though relatively small, the upper zones served as critical territories to red humanity as these regions happened to be abundant in phasewater or other rare exotics.
The Red Two and the first-rate colonial superstates often stationed large quantities of their own standing forces at these strategically important locations.
The middle zones were much larger and more expansive. They formed the backbone of human-occupied space as far as people were concerned.
Although many of the mechs stationed in the middle zones could not compete against first-class multipurpose mechs, they were much cheaper and easier to mass produce in vast quantities!
