"Don't just stand there! Raise the main engine output to maximum and break away from the formation at top speed. That barrage was enough to make the enemy wary of us. What the Archangel faces next won't be the minor skirmish from before."
Allen took the initiative to pull everyone present back from their shock and elation.
Although he had successfully taken out a ZAFT Army warship and six whole Ginns through tactics and the Archangel's outstanding weapons systems, the situation had not changed in the slightest.
Rau Le Creuset still held the absolute initiative, and he would no longer allow a new warship with such enormous potential threat to keep pouring down firepower without restraint.
In other words, tactics like the one just now were basically impossible to replicate.
"Break away from the formation? Why?" Nataru Bagiru was the first to recover, asking loudly with a baffled expression.
As a traditional soldier, she simply could not understand what kind of absurd maneuver it was to have a warship leave the protection of the main fleet and numerous MAs, exposing itself alone to enemy attack range.
Allen answered casually, "It's simple! Those outdated warships and MAs from the Eighth Fleet reinforcements clearly can no longer keep up with the rapidly shifting pace of attack and defense. Because of that, staying in formation not only prevents the Archangel from using its full capabilities, but their speed and mobility will also become a burden. Rather than hold each other back, we might as well break away and use the Archangel's more advanced weapons systems to draw as much enemy fire as possible."
"A... burden?!"
Upon hearing that word, Murrue froze completely.
She had never dreamed that, in Allen's eyes, this enormous fleet that had come to provide reinforcements was nothing more than