Warhammer: Return of the Dragon

At the cavalry training ground outside the city of Tal Kaled, Imric was accompanying Adira to inspect the training of the cavalry. It was said to be an inspection, but in fact it was a show off.

Adira, who was standing next to the weapons display rack, picked up a cavalry hammer. This time she was no longer wearing the white and yellow palace dress, but the light Yselama silver scale armor. She returned to Im The warrior woman she looked like when Rick first saw her.

The length of the hammer is about seventy-five centimeters, and there are six vertical flanges on the head of the hammer. This is somewhat like the hammer used by Druchi's Fearful Cold Lizard Knight. He asked, "How could you even think of using such a thing? Don’t you want to attack the frontal position?”

Generally speaking, cavalry will not charge directly from the front. Unless the person is holding a four-meter or five-meter lance, it will be difficult to take advantage of the dense spear position. If you want to change this situation, you have to Get started with portable long-range weapons such as cannons, and carry four or five cannons on your body. Before arriving at the enemy's position, shoot one round before continuing to charge.

Even so, the lance is not an easy thing to control. It requires years of training to use the lance well. Unless you are a monster cavalry, it is difficult to get benefits from attacking the frontal position.

Therefore, most of the cavalry who are not skilled in riding skills are equipped with weapons such as swords or sabers. After the lance pierces the enemy, if it breaks, or after a close encounter, they can throw away the lance and use the secondary weapon to fight. Of course, riding skills The same is true for skilled people, but every inch is stronger and every inch is stronger. In horse fighting, a lance is much stronger than a weapon such as a sword.

But seeing these people carrying one on each side, Adila was a little unsure about the positioning of this cavalry. Generally speaking, cavalry attacked from the flanks, giving priority to destroying the opponent's long-range troops, or attacking with the assistance of infantry. The enemy's defensive weaknesses divide the battlefield, but they also have armor-piercing hammers, long swords, and lances.

Imrik, who was standing next to him, was a little helpless. When he was sleeping early in the morning, the palace maid ran to his bedroom and said that Princess Adira was waiting at the door. After fighting in the dark world for almost two months, she couldn't even get a good result. He didn't even sleep, so he was dragged to the training ground by this woman, saying that she wanted to see how Caledo's new cavalry was doing.

For the sake of the cute little money, Imrik could only drag his tired spirit and take Adira to the cavalry training ground.

"No, Caledor has its own combat system. There is no need for these people to attack the frontal position. They will cooperate with the dragon to strangle, or cooperate with the dragon prince to directly attack the enemy's cavalry."

When there is a giant dragon, why do you need cavalry to attack the position? First, spell bombing, and after the long-range troops shoot, the infantry begins to engage. The high-level dragon prince gives priority to getting rid of the enemy's giant beasts, and then uses cavalry to divide the battlefield. If there are no giant beasts, , then the giant dragon rides on the face and passes through in a wave.

And these cavalry, thanks to the strength of pure-blooded elf horses, can still run at extremely fast speeds even if they are dragging something weighing hundreds of kilograms, and their endurance is extremely strong. They are simply the difference between hot-blooded horses and cold-blooded horses. perfect combination.

Therefore, their equipment is very thick. They are armored cavalry. Their main weapon is a 2.6-meter lance. The longer the lance, the harder it is to use. After all, there is still a big gap between these people's martial arts and the Dragon Prince. There is no such thing as a lance. If used properly, it will harm the user.

They are a force specially established to cooperate with the Dragon Prince to deal with the Druchi cold lizard knights. The horse armor is very thick and cannot be penetrated by the bite force of the cold lizards. The cold lizard knights are usually Druchi nobles and are protected by the cold lizards. The armor is not bad, but it is difficult to fight against those cold lizard knights who specialize in hand-to-hand combat with swords and the like.

Most of the Druchi nobles use black steel armor, a kind of armor forged by the fusion of dark magic and the blood of sacrifices. Although the Dragon Prince is full of contempt for Druchi, it cannot be denied that black steel Armor can provide good protection.

So I simply used the page hammer. After getting into the melee, I just threw down the lance and took out the page hammer as a can opener to mince meat.

To deal with the cavalry, the cavalry has to deal with it. The infantry has a natural disadvantage when fighting the cavalry. The sword hanging on the left side is used to chase down the infantry. This is a unit that only undertakes some of the dirty work.

Adira did not respond to the Dragon Prince immediately, but wanted to find a piece of armor and try the power of this page hammer.

Have someone find a steel plate, put it on a training stake, and let Adila try it.

The blades of the hammer are in the shape of an irregular triangle, each piece is 1.5 centimeters long, which ensures that it can penetrate armor and also allows the effect of a blunt weapon to be exerted. It is a sharp weapon for attacking humanoid heavy armor units. If a light armored infantryman is hit on the head, his head will definitely be damaged.

Generally speaking, Asul does not use such crude weapons. Most of them use long swords and spears, which are both self-defense and ornamental weapons. But for a person who pursues extreme efficiency, A long sword encrusted with gems? Are there any engravings on the arrows to indicate who fired them? Get some wing decorations on the sword grid?

In the time it takes to build one weapon, humans can build three. War is only about population and productivity. Although the weapons are ugly, they are very effective, not much better than those flashy things.

Observing this page hammer carefully, although it is a bit crude, Adira still knows that this thing is very sophisticated. In terms of material, the entire hammer head is made of hundreds of refined steel. This material is usually used for the forging of high-end weapons. , because although Ysramasilver is light and strong, it is not suitable as a weapon and the material is soft. I can only secretly envy Caledor's family background. The existence of the Val Anvil means Caledor will never lack sophisticated equipment.

A one centimeter thick steel plate was placed on the wooden stake. This thickness was already the thickness of the strongest breastplate in the entire armor. He held the page hammer in his right hand and swung the steel plate hard.

First, the triangular wing hit the steel plate, and most of it was immersed. Adira also felt a shock force coming from the tiger's mouth, which made her arm numb. This is a normal phenomenon when testing weapons. On the battlefield The enemy's weight is not as heavy as this two-person thick wooden stake. The ideal result is that after the page hammer attacks the enemy's cavalry, it will ignore the armor, cause blunt injuries, and directly knock down the dismounted cavalry.

When I pulled out the hammer, I found that the one-centimetre-thick steel plate had been penetrated and the area around the gap was dented. This effect would be even more terrifying if it hit a human body.

I can't put it down. If I could make this into an extended version and use it on a chariot, would it have a better effect? ​​Just when I was about to ask Imric, I suddenly thought of what he said yesterday.

"Chariot? It's an old thing. You fools are the only ones who still want to use this thing to try to save some face. I can arm seven or eight cavalry for the cost of a chariot, and seven or eight cavalry are no more useful than a chariot. Much stronger.”

"Forget it, talking to him will easily make you angry." Adira thought to herself, and then said to Imric, "Is this the cavalry equipment you are talking about? Where is the magic equipment I want."

He waved his hand and asked the people next to him to take out the equipment from the armory. Because of the small number of people, Imrik armed the troops according to the ratio of 1:1:1, that is, one person has one set of equipment in the armory. One set is left, and another set is prepared by Val's Anvil to reduce casualties caused by the equipment as much as possible.

This plan is still being implemented. All the standing armies of Caledor already have a set of equipment, but the enchanted equipment cannot be crafted quickly. The equipment on the Dragon Halberd Guard has been occupied by Horadric Malus in the past two months. Of all the enchantments, this month the equipment of the cavalry will be enchanted first, then the dragon prince, and finally the standing army.

But this armament plan only needs to be completed within two years, and there is still room for change during the period. After all, no one knows whether Prince Long will have a brain cramp and replace half of the spearmen with five-meter spears.

The current regular equipment will gradually be replaced with enchanted equipment, and then placed in the armory through the enchantment of Vaal priests.

As a page hammer with a magical aura was brought over, Adira tested it again. It was still the same steel plate. She only found that the backlash was much reduced. The hammer wings cut through the steel plate instantly like a hot knife cutting butter. The depression in the gap is obviously much deeper than the one without enchantment just now.

She pulled off the steel plate and found that there was also a deep depression on the wooden pile, which was obviously made by the blunt effect of the hammer.

"How's it going? You're happy now." The Dragon Prince walked over and stood next to Adira looking at the test stakes.

Although she really wanted to use this page hammer to test how hard Imric's head was, Adira restrained this idea and asked, "What kind of magic is on this? It should not only have an armor-piercing effect, right?"

In order to satisfy the customers, the Dragon Prince began to brag, "This is the latest enchantment method developed by the Vaal priests. It can directly cause damage to the enemy and ignore armor. Even if you hit short stacks, you can hit them one by one." .”

In fact, this is one of the effects of "Remorse", the graduation weapon of the usual physics profession in Diablo. I discovered it accidentally. Although Horadric Mallus's enchantment is definitely not as strong as "Remorse", even on his own From a guess, it's incredibly weak, but it's enough to be used in the hands of a soldier.

The page hammer looks simple, but its effect is not bad. It ignores some armor, directly causes damage, and increases the minimum damage. If you put this thing out casually, it is a priceless weapon. But now Caledor can do it every day. About eighty of these guys are made. If there are only two enchanting effects and relatively low-level ones, the number can even be doubled.

Dark magic is so terrifying.