Talk:AIF/@comment-13740085-20150405214333

The BB-157 is torn to shreds as hundreds of shells and missiles strike it from every direction. The fire stops and the fleet leaves to be a blackened, quickly sinking wreck.

The UCAV-EDIs are pulled back into a strictly defensive pattern over the heavier American ships.

An American battleship squadron redeploys to aid the ground forces. Their fire focuses on the anti-personnel and anti-tank defenses. Broadside after broadside silences more guns, and allows missile bombardments from Thor's Hammer increased effectiveness.

A second wave of American transports warps in, covered from direct fire thanks to a maneuver by Apollo's Bow and its accompanying squadrons. Reinforcements flow onto the beaches, and thanks to the shear force of numbers, the forward lines of the Coalition defenses begin to be overrun. Troops waste no time in either hijacking surviving heavy weapons, and turning them on the inner defenses, or outright disabling them.

Meanwhile, the two silent-running Krakens mapping the minefield, report back that they believe they have located the vast majority of the mines blocking the American fleet entrance to the harbor. They back up, target them with homing torpedoes, and fire several salvos each. It was quite a sight above water, as a wall of water was sustained by the continued underwater explosions.