Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt volume 3 - Yasuo Ohtagaki

 Time for some good mecha action in the next instalment of Gundam Thunderbolt.

And with Daryl and Io both out to get each other after the losses in volume 2, it looks like this will be an intense volume.

Will the Full Armour Gundam take the upperhand, or does the Zeon sniper take him down in his psycho system empowered Zaku?  As they clash, a fresh fleet of Zeon comes to the rescue of the Living Dead division.  In the meantime, the survivors of the Federation fleet make way to the damaged Zeon carrier, in the hopes of boarding it succesfully before their air runs out, even though there are still soldiers and crew in the derelict.

As the Federation troops sweep through the ship, Daryl takes out half of Io's camera's, evening the odds again for his Psycho Zaku.  

Federation lifeboats start docking at the derelict carrier, and Cornelius runs into dr Mitchum, who is about to detonate the vessel.  He convinces her not to do it, but his men have other ideas, shattering any possibility of a temporary cease-fire to tend to the wounded, and the vessel is destroyed by the others of the Living Dead division.  This causes major casualties on both sides though dr Mitchum escapes, as does Cornelius, as they are sucked out of a hole in the hull.

With both their suits heavily damaged, Io and Daryl are at the end of their duel.  But just as Io is about to take out his opponent, Daryl launches a missile destroying both suits.  Io is captured with the rest of the Federation troops by Zeon reinforcements, but he tells Daryl that he and Daryl are two of a kind, seduced by the lure of battle, and their war hasn't ended yet...

So that was a pretty intense volume to be honest, both on the duel level between the ace and the sniper, as on the level of how some of them are truly tired of war, yet dragged on in it's maelstrom...