Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 491 06.0490: ‘As embarrassing as being honest in the locker room’

"Stern torpedo silo, wire-guided mode, target, enemy light cruiser."

Seeing that the other two attack ships launched torpedoes, the Epic, which no longer needed to use torpedoes for gravity balance, could also cooperate with friendly forces to deliver the final blow.

Regardless of whether this blow hit or not, the Epic should have withdrawn from the battlefield.

The last torpedo fired from the bow of the ship will be her ultimate means of survival and should not be thrown away easily.

"Stern torpedo warm-up completed."

"The enemy ship's turn has been detected! It's coming towards us!"

"It was the destroyer's signal wave, because we were moving away from the meteorite and the stern was facing them, and it found our stern engine heat source."

"Calm down, gentlemen! It's not the last moment yet."

"Captain, are the aft torpedoes locked on the destroyer? If we destroy the destroyer, maybe the enemy won't be able to detect us." First Officer Collingwood suggested.

"No! Just aim at the light cruiser." Horatio rejected the first mate's suggestion.

"As long as we can severely damage the light cruiser, we can still find a way with the destroyer in the asteroid belt. The threat generation gap of the light cruiser is something we cannot make up for in any case."

"Understood, Captain."

"Torpedoes ready."

"emission!"

As the last torpedo from the stern of the Epic was fired, three torpedoes were fired at the destroyer within a 90-degree range.

But the commander of the destroyer was obviously experienced. It turned around and sailed out of the asteroid belt, leaving the destroyer inside to continue to lock on the position of the prey, the Epic, hoping to use its steering maneuvers and the obstacles of the asteroid belt. , dodged this torpedo.

As expected, the torpedoes fired by E-99 and E-47 from a distance of 3,000 kilometers quickly hit two of the larger floating asteroids.

In the nuclear fusion explosion, the blasted fragments of asteroids were scattered throughout the airspace. Dozens of meteorites of different sizes shot forward like additional steel balls in fragmentation grenades, instantly smashing the Tau destroyer inside. There was a mess - three meteorites of about 60,000 cubic meters hit the destroyer from the midships and stern at the same time.

The entire manta-shaped hull was smashed until it became narrower on the left and right, and stretched forward and backward, resembling the long ships used by their compatriots in the trade fleet.

The last meteorite ended the severely damaged destroyer.

The plasma engine was blown to pieces, and all the engine heat dissipation devices failed. The expanded and overheated remaining engine group caused the blue ion light to turn sharply into scarlet in the last few seconds.

Bang!

With the explosion of countless fragments, the destroyer turned into powder.

The power of nuclear fusion of the two nuclear detonation torpedoes cleared part of the asteroid belt, making the airspace much clearer.

Although the Tau Empire's diplomatic commander is experienced, his experience does not include the Empire's newly equipped thermonuclear warheads.

If it were a conventional torpedo, perhaps his plan would have succeeded - a torpedo with a plasma warhead would at most shatter an asteroid, and then it would only be able to scatter meteorites within a short distance.

But now, the lethality brought by the conspicuous nuclear fusion brilliance of the new torpedo far exceeds the salvo of 12 ordinary Imperial torpedoes.

Horatio had previously used data from the Gothic Fleet rule book to calculate the differences between the two torpedoes.

The damage value of an ordinary Imperial torpedo is 110, and it takes 10 hits to destroy a light cruiser.

But the thermonuclear warhead of a nuclear detonation torpedo can do the same thing in two shots.

In other words, if we look at the tabletop rules, the damage of one torpedo is around 600.

One is better than six.

With such high damage, the sputtering on the asteroid belt after the explosion will naturally be greater, which is why there is such a scene that shocked the Tau's jaws.

However, this fatal blow also had a serious impact on the Epic.

The high-speed agitated meteorites continued to streak around the ship. Amidst the continuous collisions, all members of the ship were frightened. Some were even frightened to the point of cardiac arrest and were rushed to the rescue.

But this is the result with the lowest impact. If the Epic had been facing the explosion point horizontally, it might have been hit in the middle.

This was just one of the effects of the explosion. The Epic survived with its smaller facing width, but worse happened.

Continuous nuclear fusion explosions temporarily produced an effect equivalent to a stellar corona, ejecting a number of high-temperature plasmas.

If the shadow field is too close to the star, it will be ineffective due to solar wind interference.

The principle is like an invisible person entering a room sprinkled with white flour. In such a room, her shadow field has no meaning.

Moreover, the radiation waves of nuclear fusion will also cause strange overload abnormalities in the shadow field, causing the system to automatically activate emergency protection and directly shut down the shadow field.

This directly allowed the Epic to reveal its original shape in front of the light cruiser.

Now, in this clear airspace without the cover of asteroids and meteorites, the Epic and the light cruiser showed their original shapes and looked at each other.

The atmosphere was awkward, like two naked men having a candid conversation in the locker room.

This is also the first time that the Empire's new warships have officially appeared in the eyes of the Tau Empire.

"Torpedo! Kill her quickly through wire control!" Horatio clenched his fists, stood up and shouted.

"Captain, the technical priest of the aft torpedo room reported that the wire of the wire-guided torpedo was disturbed by the shock wave in the explosion just now, and then was broken by a meteorite that was speeding past.

Torpedo No. 5 is currently in automatic mode, heading towards the final target set. "

"Final position?" Horatio was startled and quickly entered the dark field of vision and looked at the command sand table.

Five minutes ago, before two nuclear deflagration torpedoes detonated.

"I've got you, prey." Lati, who had sneaked up to the torpedo console at the stern at some point, smiled coldly and steered the torpedo towards the target.

Suddenly, two dazzling lights like stars interrupted her aim. In desperation, she quickly activated the emergency protocol through the source circuit, and used the secret method of the Mechanicus to control it like a human and thunder.

As if it had inherited Ratty's superb computing brain, the torpedo rushed towards the target against the nuclear fusion shock wave and countless scattered meteorites.

The torpedoes flickered and evaded with subtle reaction speeds.

Suddenly, under the power of the continuous shock wave, the wiring port at the rear was impacted by an invisible force and became slightly loose.

The torpedo's maneuvering therefore suffered a delay error, but it was still rushing towards its designated target, the light cruiser.

Half of the close-in defense guns on the light cruiser were temporarily paralyzed by the huge nuclear fusion ion storm, and the remaining half opened fire immediately after discovering the target.

Meteorites and ion beams continued to pass near the torpedo. Lati had tried his best to operate the torpedo and avoided a rather large meteorite without letting this critical blow crash into the meteorite.

The thunder body and the meteorite almost passed by each other, and the falling powder stone chips left a scratch mark on the shell. Fortunately, the fuse was not activated.

At the moment of passing by, Lati re-corrected the torpedo launch position, but the next second, her connection with the torpedo was abruptly severed.

When she traced the source, she found that it was a meteorite that passed by the torpedo. As the torpedo finally turned, it scraped off the wires trailing behind it.

But the torpedo was still galloping. Everything, the life and death of the Epic, depended on the torpedo's course calibration made by Ratty in the last microsecond.

When the crew stabilized the ship and resumed control from the unexpected nuclear fusion storm, they saw the third torpedo speeding towards them, which caused a period of surprise and confusion.

The enemy is a battle-hardened Tau Wolf King and should not be underestimated.

"Hold on! Crew! This isn't the worst moment we've ever faced! Let me do it!"

This Tau wolf king directly used his authority to take over the control of artificial intelligence.

With the assistance of artificial intelligence, the wide manta hull began to perform emergency evasive turns.

But he only had the last 8 seconds.