The missiles hit first even as the strike groups are coming into range of their torpedoes half of the missiles speed into the front of the leading battlecruiser shredding its frontal armor and giving it a bad tilt to the left causing it to fall out of the formation while the remaining missiles speed off into deep space having missed. A heavy cruiser is the next victim as the first of the torpedoes reaches it slamming into its midship creating a massive crater in the cruiser's armor sending it into a corkscrew spin also out of the enemy formation. There are 8 other explosions that accompany the dying cruiser and battlecruise each taking with it a heavy cruiser, these dying cruisers all thanks to the Vegas’s strike group while your own strike group circle around in an attempt to work out an attack on the capital ships. The picket line seems very eager to get involved and the enemy seem to be doing their best to keep burning toward them though they haven't even entered range of their own lasers yet.

>remain in a defensive line
>let the picket line have their fun