Nico's next barrage took out one of the newly arrived ships before it even knew what was happening, but due to the reload time, Max's barrage impacted the shielding of the next and only caused minor damage, blowing out power relays and killing the shields.
The Light Mass Drivers were there to help, though, and with the Nuclear Warheads in them, though admittedly much smaller than those of the Thunder Gun, they caused massive damage all over the surface of the ship, which broke ranks to flee the front lines of the battle.
It sprayed seedling interceptors behind it like chaff to deflect missiles, but it couldn't go to warp. Its power system was too damaged.
Nico and Max fired in unison at the last undamaged tree ship, tearing through the shielding and turning the ship into floating slag that the front ranks of Android Drones were quick to collect for spare materials to replace their losses.