The sudden swing of intiative catches the europeans off guard. Nizam and Napier consolidate on the southern objective, forcing gotland to abandon its charge to challenge them. Australia steams south with yavus in pursuit, but dense smoke prevents the battlecruiser making contact with the objective.
Beauforts streak in over the gotland as the buffalos scramble once more. Far to the north, the colossus's fighters renew thier attacks on adrias. while the second squadron escorts the beauforts.
Adrias defiantly sees the fighters off once more. Over gotland, the buffaloes are bounced as they fruitlessly attack the beauforts and wiped out. gotland modern aa stops one attack flight as the second streaks in to attack
This brings up a new playtest questions which not clearly addressed. 1st - do enemy task groups reinforce, and if so how? 2nd - what is the deadlock protocol. can the player just roll round after round of reinforcements until they move or is there a requirement to make an attack?