Talk:AIF/@comment-24142455-20160315221552/@comment-10905876-20160317054145

The attacking fighters are an expected adversary, and many of the fighters moving to attack the bombers refocus their attacks on the German escorts. A flight of P-114s, many of which are piloted by aces, takes notice of the Black Baron and his F-262. Three of them move in to attack, hoping to bag the hotshot Luftwaffe pilot. Elsewhere, a large group of new contacts show up, and are soon identified as friendlies to the AIF fighters, and hostiles to the Axis aircraft. They are highly maneuverable Wasp UCAVs, which attack enemy aircraft in closely coordinated packs, their linked hive mind able to operate thousands of individual planes as a single cohesive unit.

Ground based weapons continue to fire on the bombers, but the damage is done. Large fires begin to spread in the city of Norrisburg, and rail lines in to the city are destroyed. (Its one of the major northern cities) Local fire brigades attempt to quench the blaze, but there is too few personnel and too many fires. Roughly a third of the city will be demolished by the ensuing blaze...

As the Guardian of Hope class ship shudders from the hits made by the Erwin Rommel, a Nova class battleship and the newer, tougher Ascendant Justice move in to intervene. The Ascendant Justice places herself in the line of fire, shielding the smaller battleship and giving it a chance to escape. The two battleships return fire, sending numerous laser rounds in to the massive German warship....