Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 300 05.0299: ‘Strategic Planning for the Port Attack on Far Star’

A few days later.

“Thank you and your officers and soldiers, Sir Peru. If you hadn’t arrived in time, we would have been cut off from supplies.” The commander of the Carl-Duniash fleet, who was also a brigadier general, said when meeting with Captain Peru.

"It's not easy for you to come from the distant Extreme Star Region.

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It's difficult to intervene if you lose touch with the logistics support fleet during such a long subspace voyage."

"It almost led to a tragedy, but now, at least we still have two-thirds of the supply ships. What is the next battle plan? Mr. Peru."

"Break through the orbital blockade of Far at an acceptable cost.

Then, we will control the orbit of this planet, and then you will go to Pandex to escort the Star Army transport ship to Far."

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Horatio Cochrane, the young flagship aviation chief officer wearing a bicorne hat, stood on the special aviation command bridge and looked at the distant void environment with a monocular telescope.

The medals hanging on the left chest swayed slowly along with the golden eagle ribbon and the gold thread tassel on the right shoulder.

Adding an extraordinarily majestic and inviolable heaviness to the rather young face.

This place is located directly below the observation bridge. Although it lacks armored defense, it has a wide field of vision and excellent observation effect.

The Carl-Duniyash fleet installed their latest aviation command system on the Indefatigable as promised. The overall combat effectiveness needs to be tested in actual combat, but according to Horatio's personal experience, the observation has indeed been greatly improved compared to the original.

From the images sent by the reconnaissance fleet, there is a lush planet ahead.

But in the surrounding airspace, there are countless steel ruins like asteroid belts and mechanical wreckage.

This seems to be silently telling him that as a battleground for military strategists, Far Star has never lacked war.

The planet's near-Earth orbit is well defended, and the hideous and huge armed space station is ready. It can be seen that the Chaos rebels also attach importance to the orbital control of this strategic location.

Horatio also saw the "white background and black fist" logo that had long faded due to the burning of the fire from the floating ruins.

As a time traveler, he knows.

During the Horus Heresy, this was the place where the rebel Primarch Perturabo led the Iron Warriors to fight against the Imperial Fists task force.

Perturabo personally commanded the raid with hatred for Sigismund.

The Iron Warriors destroyed more than a dozen Imperial Fists ships, including battle barges, in just 4 minutes, paralyzed more than 30 ships, and caused serious damage to 46 ships.

This devastating disaster destroyed 36 Imperial Fists companies in almost an instant.

This battle is also known as the "Battle of Fal".

As a result, Sigismund was not on Fal because of an accident beforehand, which also led to Perturabo's misjudgment, allowing most of the damaged warships of the Imperial Fists to successfully retreat, retaining a large number of manpower for the siege of Terra.

And this Sigismund also became the first Grand Marshal of the famous chapter "Dark Templar" after the Horus Heresy.

As a sub-chapter of the Imperial Fists, its influence once surpassed the parent chapter.

Many of the wreckages of ships floating here were left over from the great war.

There were also many wreckages left over from the void war that broke out here later.

But Horatio found that the larger void wreckages and the relatively intact void wreckages were gone.

This may also explain why there is such a large green-skinned pirate fleet here.

Just as Horatio was observing, a sharp and long whistle came from the sound array system above his head.

"Attention everyone, the captain has spoken." The chief boatswain shouted into the radio after blowing the whistle.

"I am Captain Edward Perru, and I would like to inform all officers and soldiers of the fleet that after nearly three months of sailing, we are approaching the planet Farr.

This is the end of our mission, but it is the starting point of the entire battle. The Emperor of God expects you to perform your duties conscientiously and present victory to the Golden Throne!"

"Yeah!!!" The crew shouted in unison, and their morale was high.

Two fleets, more than 20 large and small combat ships, rushed towards the distant green planet in two columns, followed by more logistical support and auxiliary ships in the middle and at the rear.

The 25th Gothic Squadron has a Moon-class cruiser, a Doomsday-class battlecruiser with an aviation deck, three light cruisers, two standard four-ship Sword-class frigate squadrons, and a destroyer squadron consisting of four Cobra-class destroyers.

The flagship of the 50th Karl-Duniyash Squadron is a Mars-class battlecruiser.

The difference between the armament and the experimental Indefatigable is that the torpedo silo and power ram at the bow are cancelled and replaced by a huge Nova Cannon.

This is a noble Ohm Messiah creation, a super cannon with an overall size of kilometers.

It is so powerful that only one shell can destroy the entire nest and the monsters inside.

Even the Greenskins' super cannons pale in comparison.

Of course, for the navy, the most important role of the precious and slow Nova Cannon is to cause huge damage in the enemy's fleet, creating an advantage for the battle of the capital ships.

Therefore, under this usage concept, the Imperial Navy stipulates that the effective and accurate range of the Nova Cannon is 3,000 kilometers, or about 25,000 void units.

However, this range is only the limit of the Imperial Navy's ship-borne observation and aiming system and the effective combat range, not the limit of the Nova Cannon.

The acceleration coil in the extremely long barrel can easily launch the powerful special shells at near light speed into the void tens of thousands of kilometers away.

The huge recoil requires the warship to increase the engine of at least the cruiser level to the maximum to offset it while launching.

The legendary mechanical arks of some Mechanicus sages are said to be able to accurately hit mobile targets 5,000 or even 10,000 kilometers away with the assistance of excavated ancient equipment and forward observation ships. It is so terrifying.

The rest of the warships of the Karl-Duniyash Squadron are not as gorgeous as the Gothic Fleet.

Most of them are light cruisers, and they are mainly old dreadnoughts.

When the officers of the Karl-Duniyash Fleet walked on the Gothic Fleet's new Voss-class light cruiser for a visit, they all praised its design.

Especially the Voss-class Provocation-class light cruiser carrier.

This specialized warship that can carry an entire air wing surprised the officers of the Karl-Duniyash Fleet.

In order to pursue cost-effectiveness, they used various merchant ships of the Empire to tinker with fighter carriers and escort aircraft carriers, but all of them were thin-skinned and large-stuffed crispy skins, which were not up to the task of fleet combat.

They had never thought that there was such a professional light cruiser carrier that replaced the main gun array with a shuttle apron and used the stern light spear gun as a long-range support firepower.

This is simply their ideal ship. A Provocation with a frigate squadron is enough to suppress the pirate and alien invasion threats of several star regions.

It is equivalent to several star regions only needing to support a light cruiser and a frigate squadron.

For the extreme star region with too vast territory, from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, this is a very cost-effective deal.

It is much more cost-effective than supporting a carrier cruiser or several dreadnought cruisers.

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"Captain, according to the reports from the stealth destroyers and furious reconnaissance aircraft, the Chaos rebels have laid minefields in the outer orbit of the planet.

By deciphering the communications we intercepted, it is confirmed that the starport is currently in the hands of the Chaos rebels, and the orbital defense platform is on high alert because they were attacked by the greenskin attack fleet not long ago.

After visual reconnaissance, it was confirmed that the outer orbit of the planet Far, 053.176 coordinates, was breached by the greenskins. Although the minefield has been urgently redeployed, the density is still lower than that of orbits in other directions." Horatio reported to the captain.

"A good breakthrough. Those greenskin aliens used their insignificant blasphemous lives to level the minefield for us."

Soon, the firefly hidden in the 10,000-kilometer dark void began to turn and headed towards the loophole in the planet's defense.

In the hangar, although the ships have not yet issued a first-level combat alert, the pilots are ready to attack.

According to the combat plan, the two fleets will hide outside the enemy's maximum detection range, first use the nova cannon to clear the minefield in advance, and then send the furious interceptor group to clear the surrounding broken branches and leaves to open a safe path for the fleet.

This is the suggestion made by the Karl-Duniyash fleet, which is good at using carrier-based aircraft. Such tactics can almost minimize the risk of minefields and orbital defense platforms to the fleet.

Then, the strategy proposed by Commodore Peru is the latter.

When the minefield is cleared, the fleet will use a column formation to break through, attack and board the orbital defense platform.

Considering the possible subsequent threats, the Imperial Navy does not intend to blow up most of the orbital defense platforms directly.

The combat goal is to recapture it, purify it, and then aim the guns at the enemy.

Therefore, in order to avoid excessive damage to the hull caused by the star fortress, the armed forces of tens of thousands will conduct organized cluster boarding.

It is particularly important to quickly seize control of the star fortress in this operation.

"Before the armed forces completely seize the star fortress, our fleet has to keep eating shells.

But we must survive this dark moment, because this is the price we must face and pay for the port siege."

The commodore of the Dunyash fleet looked at the battle plan and sighed for the upcoming losses.

The Imperial Navy does not have the special electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shells of the Mechanicus and cannot temporarily paralyze the defense platform.

However, for such a large star fortress, even the electromagnetic pulse shells of the Nova Cannon will not have much effect.

"Perhaps, the Hell Snipers can be used, Captain." Horatio suggested:

"To reduce losses, the entire boarding attack on the star fortress must be as clean and neat as a scalpel and as fast as lightning.

Since the star fortress is a fallen imperial creation, I think the Hell Snipers can be used in the task of taking down the enemy's combat intelligence center (CIC)."

"You are right, Mr. Horatio." Commodore Peru looked at the commander of the brother fleet and said:

"Commodore Andrew, our Gothic Fleet recently established a naval special warfare unit, which is also the actual test unit of this evolution squadron. All these people have received professional training at the level of loyal stormtroopers.

But this kind of naval special warfare is strong in that all people are born in naval schools, everyone is a ship expert, well-equipped, and the infiltration and destruction effects on ships far exceed those of loyal stormtroopers.

Using them to carry out lightning strikes can quickly paralyze the Starfort artillery observation system and destroy the combat intelligence center, making it impossible for the enemy to obtain precise shooting parameters and orders. This may allow us to reduce losses. "

While Brigadier General Peru was standing in front of the holographic image to explain, a second lieutenant from the Communications Department came to report:

"Commander, the frigate is here to report that the green pirates who previously attacked the planet have launched another attack on the planet's orbital defense facilities."

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