As tens of thousands of mechs were about to come into contact with an even greater quantity of alien phasefighters, the space in between already became filled with energy beams, projectiles and missiles!
"Watch out for the missiles fired by the phasefighters. Each of their warheads are transphasic, so they are powerful enough to cripple most of our mechs if they manage to score direct hits!"
"Rifleman mechs, intercept the missiles!"
Every phasefighter mounted at least a pair of transphasic missiles under their wings or fuselage. This increased their threat by a huge margin so long as they had yet to launch their payloads!
The initial salvo of missiles launched by the enemy phasefighters crossed the distance and attempted to nail down any mech they could lock onto. Rifleman mechs managed to shoot down many of them with each passing second, but the slender cross sections and evasive movements made it challenging to intercept the missiles.
