Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 13

The Diva and allies attack the UE hideout at Ambat.

Trojan Horse warship is back!!!

Good to see everyone actually has effective weapons this time.

Summary:
The Diva, along with the four ships from Zalam and Euba finally make their way to the abandoned Federation fortress of Ambat where Grodek suspect the UE are hiding out. The Diva and allies fire from long distance at the fortress, and this draws out the massive UE carrier along with lots of UE mobile suits. From some unknown location, Yark and a boy (not Decil) is watching the battle unfold and Yark comments that the Earthlings are foolish and will be defeated.

White Woolf is here to save your day!

Ah screw it. I'm just going to Rambo my way to victory like any other Gundam protagonist.

The plan for Grodek's forces is for the mobile suit forces to clear a path through the enemy mobile suits so the Diva can get close enough to blast the big UE carrier with its new photo plasma cannon (which was conjured up by the AGE system). Flit (in the Gundam Spallow), Woolf, Largan along with Ract and the Zalam/Euba contingent fight valiantly, but the big carrier sends out an endless stream of UE mobile suits. Things don't look good for the Diva, but Flit decides to take it upon himself to clear a path and goes into X-Rounder mode to clear out a dozen UE mobile suits in the way. Flit's effort inspires the others and the Diva to charge at the massive UE carrier. The Diva gets within range and unleashes the photo plasma cannon which obliterates the UE carrier and blasts a hole through Ambat. However, a section of the carrier survives the blast and charges at the Diva on a kamikaze run. The Diva can't evade, so Ract tries to pull a Don Boyage by running into the UE ship with his mobile suit to stop the ship. Fortunately, Mukred Madorna shows up with a contingent of mobile suits and a big beam cannon to stop the charging UE ship and Flit stops Ract from dying needlessly. After defeating the big carrier, Grodek and allies continue to move forward towards Ambat.

We may not have the biggest ship, but we have the biggest gun.

Having a big honking beam cannon is useful sometimes.

Somewhere within the fortress, Decil is standing in front of a Zedas while his henchmen has Yurin in a pilot spacesuit as well.

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The first stage of the big battle is over, and thus far things have gone according to plan for the good guys. Flit got himself into X-Rounder mode and got lots of kills to inspire the charge, and Diva showed off its super-duper new photo plasma cannon and the new Trojan Horse look reminiscent of White Base. The big UE carrier had lots of mobile suits, but too bad it couldn't hit any of the good guy ships with its cannons. Beam scattering particles are such awesome devices, but funny enough the photo plasma cannon is immune to it.

The good guys won the first engagement, but the battle is far from over and there are plenty of UE forces left in Ambat. It looks like Flit will be fighting both Decil and Yurin in the near future. It looks more and more likely that Yurin will get killed off in the battle and give Flit some trauma, but let's see if the "kid-friendly" Gundam AGE will go in this tragic direction. If it was any other Gundam series, Yurin will be killed for sure.