Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Phar's outer orbit, 11:00 noon Terra time.

"The enemy's Chaos Fleet and our fleet are gradually becoming parallel! The distance is about 1/8 of the star chain."

The observation department updated the position information, and the logo on the display screen in front of Horatio was also updated almost simultaneously, and moved slowly with the speed of both sides.

"The escort ship has a clear reconnaissance view. The enemy battle line is within the second gun range of our fleet, about 962 meters away.

kilometer. Captain, do you want to open fire on the enemy battle line? "The operations officer reported and asked.

"Communications Department, send a telegram to the Lord Daros to join our ship in setting fire to the enemy's lead ship, the Emperor's Death."

"Yes! The Lord Daros responded and will execute it immediately!"

"All the gun batteries on the starboard side have been loaded, and the spine light lance has locked onto the target!" the weapons department officer reported the loading status.

"Each artillery crew, from front to back! Fire!" Horatio gave an order, and the sound arrays in all the artillery control rooms conveyed his will.

The battleship was silent for a while, and then violent firelight lit up on the side of the battleship. After the shock was reduced layer by layer, when it reached Horatio's hands on the command throne, only a slight tremor remained.

Each fire array started from the first macro cannon on the ship and launched a salvo in sequence. The light spears on the spine also started from the first light spear turret in sequence, firing out a string of brilliant rays of light.

Horatio looked at the abominably black wedge-shaped hull in the void. Its void shield was hit so hard that it swayed like an oil film when stepped on.

Horatio hoped that by using the largest main force to attack the enemy's most threatening warships, she would weaken the threat and damage to the light cruisers at the rear of the team.

The principle is similar to Tian Ji's horse racing. When the two fleets sail staggered, each ship will engage in firefights with all the warships in the enemy's battle line in turn.

The strongest warship at the head will fight against the opponent's strongest warship, and then fight to the weakest warship at the end of the team.

During this period, any ship that is unable to withstand enemy fire and is damaged or detached from the battle line will expose the entire fleet to a potentially fatal weakness.

"In the first round of shooting, more than half of the shells hit by both sides! The enemy's void shield is expected to be overloaded by 54%

, each gun crew is correcting parameters. "

"Well done! Get ready for the next volley now."

"The enemy ship opens fire! Our void shield deploys normally!"

I saw the small cannons on the side of the enemy ship firing first. The design of these artillery now looked quite outdated. The barrage fired hit the void shield of the Lord Daros, causing a ripple.

Immediately afterwards, two large twin-mounted turrets that resembled the characteristic equipment of the ancient Terran dreadnoughts opened fire.

Black and red unclean fire spewed out from the muzzle.

Four heavy bombs entwined with black flames came towards the Indefatigable. Two bifurcated projectiles passed over the fins and spine of the Indefatigable respectively. The other two directly hit the void shield. In the vacuum, A piercing whistle roared out.

"Our ship's void shield is overloaded by 30%!" The power department reported the energy status of the void shield.

Then the enemy's second Carnage-class cruiser also opened fire, targeting the Lord Daros.

But she was in poor condition. There were many obvious cracks on the starboard side that was responsible for firing, and several small giant turrets were always in a misfiring state. They should have been damaged in the battle with the orcs and have not been repaired.

Thanks to the Imperial Navy's decision to back the planet Fal, the shells fired by the two enemy cruisers were equivalent to flying straight towards the planet.

Their ballistic trajectories were somewhat affected by the gravity of the planet, and their accuracy was not optimistic. Many shells crossed the Indefatigable and Lord Daros with a large error, and deflected across the target in a semi-rotation along the direction of the planet's rotational orbit.

The trajectory of the Imperial Navy's warships firing into the void was much straighter, and the hit rate of the first round of calibrated shots was as high as over 50%.

According to the estimate of the macro artillery officer, while maintaining the current relative speed, the hit rate of the next round of macro artillery is about 70%.

After the battleship, the largest of the two fleets, opened fire, both sides immediately reloaded.

The two Dreadnought-class light cruisers at the rear of the Gothic Strike Group also had a fierce exchange of fire with the green-skinned vanguard ship after the smoke cleared. They relied on the high-rate light macro-gun array to suppress the progress of the junk ship.

The exchange of fire was not limited to ships from both sides.

In the void, a large-scale carrier-based aircraft melee is about to break out.

"The enemy mothership was found to release carrier aircraft." The sharp-eyed aviation captain Fasha saw the familiar and hated Doomfire bombers at a glance, from the fins of the two Hell Apostle-class light cruisers at the end of the Chaos Fleet. fly out.

More than ten years ago, it was these fighter planes that destroyed her home in Tallan.

Among the Chaos warships, these ships use the old-fashioned design from the 30K period. They only have three shuttle gates on each side, while the new ships of the Imperial Navy have as many as eight gates.

(Hell Apostle-class light cruiser/planet assault ship)

Due to the size of the Fury fighter, only one Fury fighter can take off and land at the three gates at a time, and a squadron will be released three times.

However, due to the small size of the fast-death fighter, two aircraft can take off and land on the same shuttle pad.

Therefore, it is different from the Imperial Naval Air Force, which has a Fury squadron of 8 fighters and a Starhawk squadron of 4 fighters.

The Chaos Air Force adopts an old-fashioned organization, with a squadron of 6 quick-death fighters and a squadron of 3 Doomfires.

The instant death fighter squadron will be divided into two three-plane formations, or three two-plane formations for combat.

This also gives the Imperial Navy ships a better scale advantage than Chaos in the take-off and landing capacity of battleships of the same magnitude.

In particular, each Imperial Navy fighter plane uses a single shuttle ramp. When a fighter plane is damaged and an accident occurs on its way back, the other fighter plane will not be unable to land.

When two fast-death fighters are used on one shuttle ramp, it often happens that the first damaged fighter has an accident during the landing and return process, causing the other fast-death fighter to be unable to land.

On the Chaos side, in addition to releasing Doomfire bombers and escorting quick-death fighter jets, a large group of all kinds of flashy homemade aircraft were also sprayed out of the green skin's large iron pipe like a radiator nozzle.

The aviation department of the Indefatigable received early warning messages from other ships and its own aviation fleet in a timely manner. Archie was fully alert and paying attention to the movements of the two groups of enemies at the same time.

"Chief, regarding the latest movements of the enemy air fleet, I believe that the target of the Chaos carrier-based aircraft should be the Indefatigable, while the target of the green-skinned carrier-based aircraft should be the Chaos flagship 'Emperor's Death'.

At present, the formation of the greenskin fleet is relatively chaotic, but their leader is obviously a cunning ferocious beast, which is trying to shrink the formation and form an impact battle formation.

I suggest that the 'Icarus Storm' (Torpan-class light cruiser) release the Starhawk bombers,

Conduct concentrated fire bombardment against the lone light cruiser-class garbage ship that was turning to form a battle line. "

The three huge semi-ring-shaped displays in front of Horatio were already filled with various parameter reports.

He used brain waves to drag aside the aviation tactical concept diagram sent by Archie, and his brain thought at high speed.

At the same time, it also processes information sent by a series of departments such as the Operations Department, Navigation Department, Weapons Department, Observation Department, Communications Department, Power Department, Supervision Department, etc., which are updated all the time.

If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely feel dizzy, or even feel dizzy and want to vomit.

But Horatio was different. Ever since Father Ratty performed the secret transformation surgery on him, he felt that his head was like a multi-threaded CPU that could handle several things at the same time accurately.

This kind of battle patrol command activity is too brain-consuming for ordinary people and would be unbearable for someone with less than a year and a half of ship command experience. For him, he can still manage to parry it.

The machine spirit of the Indefatigable is also dedicated and sincere. This old ship, which has been in service for thousands of years, has internally integrated and absorbed the command strategies of captains of past generations.

It's not that Horatio is actively adapting to her, but she is actively catering to Horatio.

In the short period of time after Horatio inserted the nerve plug, she had gone through several operations of the acting captain and initially understood and adapted to his command habits.

The content he wants to see can always be displayed in front of him in the most timely manner by relying on the eye-sight capture device, and the unimportant and cumbersome matters are handled for him based on the optimal solutions from previous captains' decisions.

Now Horatio finally knows why in Warhammer 40K, older ships are more useful.

He could vaguely feel that he was not alone in directing the battle.

Instead, he received all-round intelligent assistance from the wisdom of previous captains condensed in the machine soul, allowing him to lead the Indefatigable to new victories and glory.

"Archie, I have marked the cluster bombing target. We should be able to blow up or cripple a light cruiser-class junk ship before the greenskin fleet forms a battle line.

I have fine-tuned the air strike plan, please implement it immediately. "

In just three or two minutes, Horatio used brain waves to redraw the optimal bombing route and sent it to Ensign Collingwood for implementation.

"Yes! This is the aviation department of the flagship Indefatigable, the 'Icarus Storm'. Four squadrons of interstellar hawks are immediately dispatched to target the green-skinned alien fleet 'Rothgarb's Horn'. Our ship will provide air superiority escort for the bombing formation. ”

"The 'Icarus Storm' has received it and is commanding and dispatching the bomber formation."

Starhawk bombers rushed out of the shuttle ramp of the light cruiser carrier under the command of the ground crew.

They passed over the Tenacity-class and Duty-class light cruisers that were firing. The gun barrels after firing were still carrying smoke particles blowing on the fuselage. The deadly and brilliant light spear rays complemented the tail flames of the nozzles.

Accompanied by two squadrons of furious interceptors, one on the left and the other on the right, they charged forward headlong towards the ugly alien creature that turned around and fell alone in the distance.