Zara escaped the brunt of the damage aimed at her due in part to<em>Bayern</em>firing and making the light cruisers dance to evade sudden death and Mizuki's fairly accurate sniping. The Heavy cruiser only suffered the saturation and shattering of her kleinfield as well as maybe a few small dings in her armor from the light cruisers beams. The heavy cruiser was saved further as Torpedoes launched by<em>Shimakaze</em>streaked through the seas and punched out two of the light cruisers while they were focusing dodging the super dreadnaught.<br/><hr/>Regarding Bayern's torpedo attack against<em>Courbet</em>well that could be considered a victory though not quite the way the super dreadnaught had intended. One of her torpedoes would smash head first into the battleship's nose punching a massive hole in it and forcing her to shift nano-materials to mitigate the entering water. The others however plowed into one of the<em>Baltimore</em>class heavy cruisers which had moved to shield the vice-flagship of the combat fleet. The corrosive torpedoes punched into the kleinfield after two or three hits the shield shattered and the ship itself would be hit with an explosion that would cause it to capsize.<br/><hr/>As Abbey took the beam and was blasted through her upper armoring<em>Shimakaze</em>would sail up "ABBEY!" she yelled standing tall atop her bridge tower worry clear in her voice as she heard the pained shriek. She would also notice that the beam had not only sliced through Abbey's armor but also burned off a little bit of the nose of Ranger's runway.<br/><hr/><em>Fusou</em>was tired of screwing around now and started to actually aim her full broadside. She had decided she would take out the second of the three heavy cruisers. The six beams ripped through the already heavily saturated kleinfield and would punch clean into the cruiser. She then aimed at two more of the light cruisers firing at them. She caused them to list heavily but they did not sink just yet.<br/><hr/>Ari's attack on<em>Jean-Bart</em>was just as successful as Jean-Bart's had been on her. The enemy flagship listed a bit but didn't over turn. "Well now this battle isn't going well at all" she mused as she noticed she had already lost several of her ships.<strong>"ALL VESSELS WITHDRAW"</strong><em>Jean-Bart</em>ordered over the JTN to her fleet. Just as she did she watched as a group of torpedoes from Range's aircraft took out yet another light cruiser as well as heavily damage another.