"Jump complete, Captain. Unknown signature ahead."
[SCREAMING GEOMETRICALLY]
"Bugger all, that's an Angel! Order all fleet units to alter course."
"Just one moment, sir - more contacts on scope."
"It's the T.L.A.! How the hell did they manage to survive the Third Impact?..."
Turn 1
The light cruiser and picket ship peel off to flank the enemy, while the rest of the fleet steams full ahead.
The T.L.A. mirrors their moves, sending their beam-armed ships to intercept the flankers while the rest of their fleet advances.
The torpedo frigate flies too close to the Angel, and gets hit by a positron beam. Its heavy armor absorbs most of the damage.
Turn 2
The Britannian formation continues to advance.
The T.L.A. advances as well.
The Britannian frigate fires at the T.L.A. beam frigate and inflicts a point of damage.
The beam frigate fires back and deals two.
The Britannian torpedo frigate manages to mask its signature by shutting down most of its key systems, and so the Angel administers a perfectly geometric ass-kicking to the next closest target. The T.L.A. missile cruiser is reduced to one HP.
Turn 3
The Britannian picket ship sails past the T.L.A. vessels.
The rest of the ships continue their advance.
The missile frigate flies right in front of the armored cruiser, where the cruiser's broadside guns can't fire.
The beam frigate pulls the same maneuver on the light cruiser.
The heavies advance as well.
The torpedo frigate finally gets into range and fires.
Finishing off the missile cruiser.
The beam frigate also opens up, and does 3 points of damage to the light cruiser.
The T.L.A. missile frigate fires on the armored cruiser and does a point of damage. Then the Angel takes another shot at the Britannian torpedo frigate, and does 2 points of damage.
Turn 4
The picket ship accelerates past the T.L.A. flanks and towards the battlecruiser's rear arc.
The heavies turn broadside on to bring their guns to bear.
The missile frigate flies past the armored cruiser and makes an attack run on the Britannian battlecruiser, but does no damage.
The beam frigate and cruiser bracket the Britannian light cruiser while avoiding its fire arcs.
The picket ship does two damage to the T.L.A. battlecruiser, which can't fire back since all of its weapons are in the front arc.
The missile frigate may have avoided the battlecruiser's fire arc, but the armored cruiser caught it and inflicted 3 points of damage.
The T.L.A. beam cruiser blows up the Britannian light cruiser.
And the battlecruiser eliminates the torpedo frigate with a railgun shot.
The Angel blasts the T.L.A. beam cruiser and does two points of damage.
Turn 5
The picket ship continues to buzz annoyingly around the T.L.A. battlecruiser and whittle down its HP.
The beam frigate races back across the battlefield to intercept it, but is caught near the Angel and takes heavy damage.
Turn 6
The picket ship deals more damage to the battlecruiser, but it turns...
...and blasts it out of space with a missile salvo.
The missile frigate turns around for another pass, but the battlecruiser destroys it first.
The Angel finishes off the T.L.A. beam frigate.
Turn 7
There's a lot of maneuvering for position which leaves no one able to fire.
...except the Angel.
Turn 8
With the T.L.A. battlecruiser on its last legs from its fight with the picket ship, the armored cruiser manages to finish it off.
Meanwhile, the Britannian battlecruiser takes out the T.L.A. beam cruiser, ending the fight.
"Let's rejoin the Admiral. We need to warn him that the T.L.A. is still alive!"
[SCREAMING GEOMETRICALLY]
