The captain of Fortress Squad was furious!
He had anticipated that the enemy would set up an extremely fierce fire network at the first checkpoint, but he had never expected them to be this determined, seemingly willing to disregard their endurance and trade firepower with them head-on!
This simply made no sense!
The first checkpoint was a long way from the defenders' base. In such frenzied, concentrated exchanges of fire, once casualties occurred, the attackers would gain a huge advantage.
Yet Begonia Squad seemed not to have considered the issue of endurance at all.
At the first turn, the enemy's firepower came crashing down all at once. Even the Mobile Wall responsible for covering its teammates, after dropping an energy shield, launched a small charge to harass them, nearly throwing their formation into disarray!
Still, that was hardly surprising. They were down one source of firepower. Though he had yet to figure out exactly what had happened, Begonia Squad must have known, which was why they dared to engage in such unrestrained frontal exchanges.
"Pull the formation back a little. Don't let their long-range firepower damage our mechs."
The Fortress captain issued the order decisively.
A head-on clash was not the best strategy right now. They still had time and could completely find an opening by shifting their formation. During their last encounter, they had discovered that Begonia Squad was probably newly formed. Apart from that deadweight, the coordination among the other young players was also extremely unfamiliar.
That might not show during static defense, but once they used mech movements to tear apart the enemy's defensive structure, this lack of coordination would quickly be exposed.
He was confident that as long as they took even a small step back, they would seize the enemy's weakness.
And he had indeed