Shades, trust dark powers to leave the answer to counter their own men. Shades went to fight the Russians so they used light. Fire and lasers purged the shadows. The rail guns of the heavy tanks fired more out of curtesy than to destroy them. There would be no stepping back, the seventh army made advances elsewhere and met laughable resistance. Their heavy armor more than capable of taking the hits and dishing out worse ones. The shades on the ships were the first repulsed, the mighty seventh fleet suffered minimal losses, a frigate and a destroyer. The seventh kept fighting, showing the alliance how real soldiers fought and died. [spoiler]realize I consider the seventh army a character in its own right, it's not being destroyed any time soon.[/spoiler]