A 120mm muzzleloader gun that fires solid projectiles, approximately equivalent to a 12-pounder gun in history.
In this special battlefield environment, Eski still has some confidence in it.
Generally speaking, ordinary carbon steel is enough for this kind of artillery. The reason why rare earths are used to make alloy steel and strengthened runes are needed to make their barrels is because the ammunition loaded is not very normal.
In order to give the projectile a faster muzzle velocity, the engineer planned to mix a little bit of warpstone powder into the propellant.
This kind of cast-iron cannonball impregnated with warpstone can cause fatal damage to those creatures made of magic, and can also provide certain obstacles to Nagash.
However, the premise is that Nagash will not kill the Engineer Warlock and his artillery immediately after he fired the first shot.
Thinking of this, the Engineer Warlock looked at the Storm Rats and Clan Rats with some suspicion.
Due to the fact that he had been completing external orders before, the 4,000 soldiers that Esky brought here only had about 30% armor coverage.
This refers to metal armor. If the leather jackets made of rat men can also be regarded as armor, they have a nearly 100% armor armor rate.
But, can these things really block that Nagash?
Esky himself doesn't know.
The slave rats followed the instructions of the engineering warlock and built a buffer platform at the rear.
These are several meters thick, but the soft fabric can ensure that the gun mounts of the two artillery pieces in front will not fly out and be missing, or even be directly damaged after being impacted by the propellant.
While the slave rats were busy, the engineer warlock stood on the platform they had just set up, and saw with sharp eyes a black shadow in the darkness, rushing into the position of the Rikeke clan.
"They are the scouts under Esiliga."
Esky said to Blige.
Before the former clan rat could understand why the engineer warlock was telling him this, he heard a rustling sound coming from below the high platform.
After a while, it turned into a lot of curses and screams from Skaven.
The originally relatively quiet environment immediately became noisy.
The Storm Rats of the three clans, Storm Rats, Rickek, and Plague, are driving the clan rats in the clan closer to the passage ahead that represents death.
Esky made a rough estimate, and found that the number of clan rats entering the passage was about two thousand, about 13 infantry companies, which was probably a combination of 13*13*13.
The next moment, Esky was almost sure.
Thirteen rats were dressed differently from ordinary ratmen. The armor on their bodies had decorations and even runes, and the weapons in their hands were magic weapons engraved with runes. They lined up in two parts of the front line.
The three clans seem to be planning to use this method to obtain a little bit of the horned rat's divine power in order to weaken Nagash's damage to them.
No, it's not just that.
Looking at the positions of the Storm Rats, Esky even saw a sense of the sacrifice ceremony of the Gray Prophets.
If you follow the oracle words written by the rats in your memory, you can barely understand the meaning.
Through continuous strengthening through the blood of sacrifice, is it strengthening the troops in the passage? Or strengthening the Storm Rats outside who serve as the supervising team and the last line of defense?
The abacus was very good, it was very much like the Gray Prophet's idea, but would Nagash really let their plan go through? The engineering warlock expressed doubts.
This time the enemy is Nagash, who has sufficient magical attainments.
The air is filled with magical energy covering the battlefield.
With the dual attributes of chaos and order, the Great Horned Rat himself cannot come to the world, but this does not prevent him from responding to his believers, just like he usually makes harsh ridicule to the curses of his believers. p>
However, you have to think backwards when doing magic.
Eski looked at the unprotected magic circle and thought.
If Skaven can strengthen the connection between the real world and the gods in the Chaos Demon Realm through special sequences and formations, then Nagash can also adopt a creative strategy to sever the connection between the two.
In the Chaos Demon Realm, there is no concept of time. Gods and demons exist in the past, present, and future at the same time.
This is why Slaanesh demons can be born before the birth of Slaanesh, because time has no meaning to Chaos.
What happens in the future has already happened in the past, and what was not possible in the past can already be done in the past.
Because of this, if there is no stronger connection, just a trace of the horned rat's divine power will not be enough to withstand Nagash's counter-spell, because it is difficult for the gods to judge what is "when the connection is not strong enough."
Now".
The noise among the rats grew louder and louder.
Esky clearly heard the shouting of a Storm Rat below who was fully armored and the green runes on his body illuminated the rats around him.
"Everyone line up, they are coming."
Following this cry, the voices of the rats became louder and disorderly.
The engineering warlock could only hear one or two clear curses from it. Obviously, the rats were cursing everything now and praying to their gods at the same time - cursing is praying.
The Gray Prophet had arrived in front of the position at some unknown time, and by the time Eski discovered it, this old guy with a distorted gray-white body all over the province was already whispering in the engineering warlock's ear.
"The time has come, fight, fight."
Quickwall's voice was so slurred that it sounded like there was a lump of phlegm stuck in his throat, but the tone in his tone made Eski hallucinate that it was a certain Yeager speaking "Tatakai".
Eski turned his head, lowered his head and said softly.
"Is this the Oracle of the Horned Rat?"
"It can be."
In the gray prophet's long-lost eye sockets, the glowing dimension stone reflected the preset battlefield ahead, and said.
Eski lowered his head and then raised it, shouting to the surrounding teams.
"Except the two escort battalions, the other seven battalions will go to support the battle below. Stop the stickman weirdo with the magic stone in his eye at that intersection. My cannon and magic will give him a fatal blow."
One of the tents looked at Eski from under the high platform, hesitated for a moment, and then shouted.
"Engineer, be more precise."
Eski did not reply to him, but just asked Mo Mo to wave them to the fifth echelon of the combat force. When the 10,000 clan rats from the three clans in front were almost dead, it was their turn to move up.
Before the war had fully begun, the engineer warlock took out a leather bag he carried in his vehicle and opened the seal and lid of one of the barrels of gunpowder.
Inside are nut-shaped granular gunpowder about 15 mm in diameter made using improvised granulation equipment.
Since he was completely unaware of the additive effect of warpstone powder on black powder, Esky had to temporarily increase or decrease the dose of warpstone powder during the battle.
Part of this kind of work must be completed before the battle begins.