The battle against the Zerg requires not only defense, but also offense.

Zone defense!

Joint attack!

There are three main purposes for the attack. One is to concentrate forces to attack and weaken the Zerg forces. The other is to develop new territorial stars. The third is to take the opportunity to complete the task and kill the high-level brood.

The first purpose is easy to understand.

As for the second goal, in fact, both the Zerg and the cities are developing and competing for new planets. Usually they always compete for the same planet and fight repeatedly. Sometimes the adventurers win, sometimes the Zerg wins.

The sign that the adventurer wins is to build a large and complete base. This base will be owned by the general with the highest merit in the joint attack, and will enjoy various benefits given by the system.

The sign of the Zerg's victory is that their carpet of bacteria covers a large area of ​​the planet until they completely drive out humans.

This is how the planet territory of the adventurers and the Zerg came about.

The planet currently being fought is the Emerald Planet, which is rich in various gemstones and is very popular in the alliance. This is also the reason why adventurers seize this planet. Shen Yi is not the only one who wants to make a profit through business.

The reason why the Zerg robbed it was because humans wanted it.

The war on the Emerald Star has been going on for three years - the battle for each planet is accompanied by years of fighting and thousands of casualties.

At present, adventurers and Zerg have their own bases on this planet - so this is the only battlefield where humans and Zerg coexist.

Everyone wants to drive each other out, but no one wants to be kicked out by the other party.

However, neither of the above two goals is the most important.

The most important thing is the third goal!

Killing the high-level brood is the second main task that every general must complete. However, for most adventurers, the first main task should never be counted on, and the second main task is also not easy.

To understand how difficult it is, you must first understand a few concepts.

First of all, the standard unit of an adventurer's base is 10,000 square kilometers per person.

For example, Shen Yi's base has a radiation area of ​​100,000 square kilometers, so it is also called the ten-person standard.

Secondly, the construction funds of the base are roughly equivalent to the income of a month of normal operation of the base. This normal is based on the current best calculation standard for adventurers: that is, three converters per 10,000 square kilometers and two energy beads per day. of.

For example, Shen Yi and his ten-person standard base can generate 6 million in revenue per month after improvement. The entire base includes the construction of satellite bases, logistics construction of workers, basic defense standard proportion construction, supply center and factory construction, etc., in total. The investment is also around 6 million.

Of course, unless such a large amount of money is invested from the beginning, it is impossible to build it within a month. It can only be gradually improved by continuously collecting energy. Therefore, Shen Yi and the others racked their brains and took two months to complete. This is already Superhuman speed.

Now, let's assume that an adventurer has a standard unit base, and it also takes only two months to complete the construction.

Then the next ten months are the theoretical time to make money, and the income will be 300*2=6 million.

Does this mean that these six million can be used to strengthen yourself?

the answer is negative.

The first thing is to deal with the Zerg attack and have the facilities to make up for the damage. This part depends on the individual's strength. The stronger ones will suffer less, and the weaker ones will suffer more.

Secondly, additional expenses such as workers’ salaries must be paid.

Finally, there is the mobile force.

Let's keep the expenditures on the first two items to a minimum and limit them to one million. Then a standard unit base can earn up to five million in annual income.

So what's the result?

The theoretical maximum number of troops an advanced brood can lead is around 200,000, the brood's own strength is around 1,500 points, and its life expectancy is no less than a million according to an adventurer's analysis.

Although it is actually impossible to have so many troops due to war consumption, even half of it is scary enough.

Five million dollars spent on strengthening obviously cannot eliminate such an existence.

It can only be used to build an army.

All five million points are converted into points, and the army is built using the cheapest self-production method. One robot also requires a capital consumption equivalent to one-twentieth of the points, excluding ore resources.

In other words, if it is used to produce double-A-level robots, it can only produce 1,840 units, or 6,000 double-C-level robots.

Obviously, this amount of troops is absolutely not enough to destroy a high-level brood with 100,000 troops, no matter how strong the adventurers are and how good their tactics are.

In other words, in order to reach the point where the brood can be eliminated head-on, an adventurer must have a base equivalent to five standard units, develop 25 million resources to produce point troops, and implement good tactics.

Only by attacking the nest with all your strength can you complete the mission.

This is impossible for many people.

Even the Broken Blades currently do not have a base size of five standard units per capita.

In other words, not many people can do it at all, and even if they do, they don’t have much time to enjoy the benefits - what’s the point of doing it in the last month?

This is where the biggest problem lies.

Of course, there is no way.

The best way is to jointly attack.

Use the powerful base turrets to defend, attract the attention of the Zerg, and then attack the fleet to kill the brood. This is the best time for the generals to complete the task. Of course, due to the limited number of advanced broods, some generals are bound to be unable to complete the task, but at least

They have a chance.

This is the third important significance of the existence of joint operations.

Therefore, there will be a major joint operation in the simulated world almost every month. Shen Yi and the others are newcomers and do not need to participate in such an operation, but as the three months expire, he will also have to participate.

In fact, this is very bad for those bases that are still in the development stage, because it means that they have to invest precious resources in large-scale mobile forces and let them die!

This also means that their development is limited and precious resources are used instead of laying a foundation.

This is the third thing that delays the retreat after Zerg and logistics.

But they can't help but do it.

This is an order from the Supreme Council and must be implemented.

This is an opportunity for those generals who have not finished killing the high-level brood, and they will not allow anyone to fail to participate.

Generals have been doing this for years. When they are new, they hate joint attacks, but when they are old, they crave joint attacks.

It's as if the club's coach always hated the national team's coach for robbing him of players, but when he became the national team's coach, he began to hate the club for not letting him go.

But Shen Yi doesn't intend to do that - as a club coach, he doesn't intend to let any of his outstanding players go to the national team to waste energy.

After thinking about it, Shen Yi asked: "It is necessary to go on an expedition, but how many people to bring and how to fight, it is still up to the adventurer to decide, right?"

Meryl looked at Shen Yi: "It seems you have decided?"

"I will not change my plan easily. Next month is the development period of the satellite base. I must go all out for infrastructure construction and there is no extra money to invest in troops. Of course, since the Supreme Council has started recruiting, I will still send out the troops. And I will send out as many troops as possible, but before that..."

Shen Yi smiled and took out the intercom: "Zeus, redesign a plan. Stop the production of mobile weapons including fighter planes, tanks, tanks and all types of Terminator series, and fully produce shore-based turrets. I want to start the third Before the end of the month, we saw the completion of six satellite bases and all corresponding defense systems, including thirty energy converters, the completion of the development of the commercial area, and the internal portal between the sub-base and the main base. Everything that could be built was built. In short, don’t keep a dime except the salary that should be paid.”

"Zeus understands, the new plan is being adjusted."

"..." Meryl was speechless: "Actually, you don't have to do this. You can gain a lot of merit in the battle against the new planet, and it is not all a waste of effort and resources."

"Then do you know why I don't want to join the joint base?" Shen Yi asked.

Meryl gets it.

It's not that Shen Yi doesn't want to get merit, but he hates any action that disrupts his plan, or that only he can modify his plan, rather than others forcing it.

In order to develop freely, he is not even willing to join the more trouble-free joint base. What does a mere combat achievement mean?

"So are you sure you don't plan to contribute to this joint attack?"

"Of course not, I will do my best...my personal best." Shen Yi replied with a smile.

"As expected, you are still you, don't you miss every detail... Well, I'm looking forward to your good news, I'll leave first." Meryl waved her hand.

"Won't you stay for a drink?" Shen Yi asked.

"Are you trying to seduce me?"

"Forget it." Shen Yi hurriedly waved his hand. After this woman became a saint, her speech became much more spicy. Shen Yi sympathized with Zhou Yiyu quite a bit. It seemed that he couldn't control Meryl.

In the following days, as Shen Yi said, construction began again with great enthusiasm. This time, the construction of the satellite base, which had been delayed many times, finally began.

The satellite base is an important support for a core base. The biggest significance is to expand the radiation range of the energy converter. After all, the energy converter in the original core base cannot reach the predetermined radiation range due to the limited distance. It can only be achieved through the satellite base. Truly exert the effect of thirty energy converters over 100,000 square kilometers.

Of course, since it is a satellite base, the base's defense power will not be too strong.

But don't worry, because in the eyes of the Zerg, the satellite base is far less valuable than the main base.

Although they are smart, they do not know how to cannibalize. In other words, their cannibalization strategy is based on the main base with a central control system. After all, if the central control system is destroyed, all satellite bases affiliated with the core base will also be destroyed.

Therefore, although the Zerg will also attack satellite bases, they are actually divided forces under the same unit, and they still mainly attack the core base.

However, the expansion of the satellite base will lead to an increase in the actual control area of ​​the base, which will increase the offensive strength of the Zerg to a certain extent. This means that 150,000 Zerg may become 180,000 or 200,000.

However, considering that the satellite base investment is small and the income is greatly improved, the resource ratio brought by its expansion is actually higher than the offensive pressure brought by the Zerg, so it is still very necessary.

In fact, a base mainly relies on satellite bases to make money. An independent base without satellite bases has basically no profitability. If it does not play well, it will suffer losses. People like Shen Yi can develop so quickly because of their strong personal strength. Just to get money from the wilderness.

In addition, portals can be built between satellite bases and core bases for troop dispatching, but only for bases of the same force unit. Even ** bases in a joint base cannot use portals to teleport if they do not belong to the same team. .

Because the so-called joint base is not actually recognized by the system. The joint base is a spontaneous combination of adventurers. Just like the four major organizations, the system only recognizes teams with contract restrictions and independent bases under team management. Everything All are done in this unit.

Since the construction of the core base has developed rapidly in the past month, there is basically no need for investment. The Broken Blade team already has sufficient funds to use, and it no longer has to be stretched as before. In addition, the workers' lives have been greatly improved, and the number has increased. , labor efficiency has also been greatly improved, so it only took ten days to complete the six small satellite bases.
To be continued...