"According to the plan, all torpedoes were launched in waves."
As commands were issued, large and small torpedoes slid out of the launch tubes, then ignited the engines and continued to accelerate towards the enemy. Their target was the Tyranid fleet directly in front of the fleet. Then ten seconds later, six Vipers
The guided-missile destroyers also launched a salvo in groups of three, and their target was to roundabout the Tyranid clusters on both sides of the fleet.
Twenty seconds later, the second wave of torpedoes was launched, and the first wave of torpedoes also reached their maximum speed. The information labels covering the screen followed their course, and the priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus blessed them with technical words.
They can hit successfully.
In response, a large number of small biological warships emerged from the Tyranid fleet, tens of thousands of them, like a dense protective net, following the electrical signals of the torpedoes, trying to block these dangerous metal objects.
However, just seconds before the two sides were about to come into contact, all the first wave of torpedoes detonated, and huge sharp metals stretched endlessly in a space of several kilometers. Along with countless small explosions, biological ships within the coverage area exploded one after another.
The carapace was shattered, the tentacles were torn, and it twisted like a wounded fish.
This kind of torpedo is a dart torpedo developed by the Adeptus Mechanicus specifically for Tyranid small biological ships based on the needs of Soshyan. Its technology is actually not complicated, but the shell of the torpedo is made of special metal, and the warhead is also filled with
There are many small bombs. When they explode, they will fly out a large number of highly lethal fragments and bombs, which act like anti-personnel fragmentation grenades.
The dart torpedoes swept through the "biological protection net" of the Tyranids fleet, quickly creating a huge gap, and then the second wave of torpedoes roared through. These torpedoes locked onto the Tyranids based on their biological heat signals.
Large battleships in the London fleet, and plunged headlong into each other when they tried to evade.
These torpedoes are all hot-melt torpedoes. At the moment of contact, the hot-melt flow roars out, and the thick chitin carapace melts like cheese under high temperature, and then the remaining projectile plunges into the interior of the biological ship.
After a violent struggle and convulsion, a Tyranid Kraken exploded like a punctured balloon. The flying carapace fragments just hit the mouth of the other biological ship, destroying the organ that fired the acid cannon.
All smashed crookedly.
Immediately afterwards, the third and final wave of torpedoes approached the Tyranids fleet again. This time the Tyranids released a large number of small flying creatures in an attempt to block these torpedoes. As a result, the third wave of torpedoes were still dart torpedoes, which exploded violently.
In the sound, a large number of small Tyranids were evaporated, causing the Tyranid Hive Fleet to lose a considerable amount of biomass.
At the same time, on both sides of the fleet, the Viper-class missile offensive also inflicted considerable trauma on the Tyranids. The large-scale characteristics of the Sunfall plasma missiles caused serious damage to the dense group of Tyranid biological ships, directly causing them to move.
The speed was forced to slow down, and the Viper's rapid reloading system also meant that the next round of saturation missile attacks would come soon.
After the torpedo offensive as an appetizer was over, the "main course" was naturally served. As the weapon systems of the 30 battleships composed of the three battle groups of the Astral Knights, White Templars and Lamenters were activated one after another,
The light spear attack pointed directly at the target a moment later, covering a distance of millions of kilometers in the blink of an eye.
A burst of cheers spread like wildfire through the bridge of the Eternal Loyalty as the Sensor Director detected that more than twenty large Tyranid bioships had been sunk.
But Soshyan felt no joy at all, because he knew that these were only the most insignificant part of the hive fleet.
Then he moved his eyes to a separate screen on one side. It was a biofield radar developed by the Mechanicus. There was a very bright red dot in it, surrounded by layers of smaller red dots, simulated through images.
, a virtual image of a uniquely shaped biological ship was projected.
It has more distinctive biological characteristics, as if it were some kind of primitive giant beast in the ocean, with a cone-shaped body and long tentacles. The powerful psychic signal can even be captured by Soshyan through the observation window with the naked eye.
There are almost no records of this kind of ship in the empire. Instead, the dragon lizard in the royal court provided a lot of valuable information. This kind of ship was called the hive mothership by the archivists, and its status is evident.
According to the description of the archivist, the Hive Mothership is the core of a Tyranid Hive Fleet. As the control node of the Hive Mind, it commands the biological warships around it and serves as a huge biological factory to produce countless Tyranids.
The biological populations, including the Tyranids' biological ships, are also extremely large. Some huge hive motherships are even the size of an asteroid. At least the one Soshyan saw was not far behind. According to the scan results,
Even the Abyss class looks like a small boat in comparison, probably only the Eldar's Ark can rival it.
It stands to reason that if the mothership can be directly destroyed, it can be greatly weakened or even defeat a hive fleet. However, the mothership is not only powerful in itself, but is also often in the safest position in battle. To attack it, you have to pass through.
Blocked by countless Tyranid biological ships and biological weapons, this is undoubtedly a big gamble, a big gamble that Soshyan must bet on the entire fleet.
Today, it is no longer possible for him to accept that kind of operatic desperate move, and the archivist also said that a Tyranid hive fleet may have more than one hive mothership, and even a hive mothership that can be discovered by the enemy.
Ships are often "traps", attracting desperate opponents to launch a desperate attack on the mother ship, completely consuming their last resistance.
So although this target is very tempting, Soshyan can only choose to ignore it, or wait for opportunities in the future, such as the Abyss-class joining the battle, before he can attack it.
As if stimulated by the empire's firepower, the speed of the Tyranid biological warships suddenly accelerated, and their number even increased. The distant stars shone on the yellow-purple carapace of the Tyranid biological warships, as if a tsunami of destruction was sweeping over them.
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And it was not willing to be beaten like this. The first thing to change was the tentacles outflanking the two wings. Just when the Viper-class guided missile destroyer launched another round of plasma missiles, what blocked them was no longer a small biological ship, but some
It has a body shape similar to that of a large cruiser, its body is covered with an unusually thick carapace, and its head is a large biological ship with a huge three-flap mouthpart.
When the wave of plasma painted a strange blue light in the void, these biological ships roared and rushed out of the plasma fire, and rushed towards the imperial fleet at extremely fast speeds.
"It's interesting to move the large assault ships to the two wings."
Soshiyang chuckled and stared at the changes on the battlefield, while a monotonous mechanical sound appeared in his communication bead.