Latent Crisis

Latent Crisis

It had to be said that Admiral Magellan's Axe Tactic was indeed highly effective. The losses might be a little greater, but for the Galactic Republic, losses were hardly an issue at all!

In the first Battle of Bespin, of the 60 Hunter Class Battlecruisers, only 12 returned in a miserable state. Magellan and Sulama were then given a severe dressing-down by the Supreme Strategic Command. They hauled those 12 battered ships back for major repairs, then promptly brought in 110 brand-new ones. Who could possibly argue with that?

Igor Zavalov, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Civilization, had already exhausted every possible measure. Both strategically and tactically, he had done everything he could.

Based on the Galactic Republic fleet's tactics of using Hunter Class Battlecruisers as its core and enormous fighter swarms as its primary source of firepower, Igor Zavalov had devised a combat strategy centered on small frigates before the battle began. There were nearly a thousand frigates of various types.

Whether Cobalt-class heavy frigates or Pulsar-class light frigates, all of them had trained their main guns on the swarming fighters. Not to mention the dedicated fighter-killers, the Shriken Class/Stilat Class Light Corvettes. Since the battle began, these two types of corvettes had already shot down more than a thousand fighters.

Those 150 Garda Flak Frigates were also a mainstay of the battle. Their precise firepower had shot down large numbers of Proton Torpedoes and incoming fighters.

Moreover, because the battle was taking place within Bespin Planet, the Floating Cities bristling with anti-aircraft firepower were providing formidable support as well. Republic fighters that went after the Fourth Civilization's large warships came under attack from every direction.

The attacks against the Hunter Class Battlecruisers were largely left to the Agonev-class star base and the five Kohl-class vessels. The other