"[Group of five, stand in your position!] (In the pipe, five by five)"
"[Tie yourselves up, I'm going to speed up!]"
Following the announcement in the cabin of the Hercules transport aircraft, the clone marines silently fixed their power armor on the set placement.
Due to the excellent shock-absorbing function of power armor, federal transport aircraft have no parachuting or landing links at all. They always directly open the bottom of the cabin and drop the passengers. In this kind of dropping behavior, experienced natural soldiers will not be injured, but military
Common sense is that "infused" clone troopers have a 3% attrition rate.
Boom boom——
The low-flying transport plane bumped occasionally.
"Hey, Cowboy, I think the mission you chose this time is not very reliable." Tychus chewed gum and said to Reno who was standing aside.
"My intuition tells me that if you stay in the fortress, you may die a violent death," Raynor replied: "If the Minmatar guys decide to start a general attack, there will be no relatively safe place - except for the lieutenant colonel's headquarters."
"Who cares about the safety of the son of a bitch," Tychus mocked: "I mean, this mission of 'airdropping to the back of the Minmatar land base to destroy the supply depot' is of no value at all and is not conducive to our promotion and wealth."
Hmm...this fits Tychus's personality quite well.
The acquaintance between Renault and Tychus was actually not pleasant. Renault was not the captain of the special forces at that time and was assigned to be the temporary peace officer. He happened to catch Tychus secretly taking equipment from the military camp warehouse. When he ordered him to raise his hands and surrender, Tychus was killed by Tychus.
Keyes pointed a gun at his head and threatened, then Renault's colleagues aimed their guns at Tychus, and Tychus's companions aimed their guns at Renault's colleagues. Then the surrounding soldiers joined in the "gun shooting" purely for fun.
The "dominos" of "finger" were spectacular for a while.
In the end, Renault and Tychus, the two leaders who caused trouble, were imprisoned together for half a month.
During this period, the two sides exchanged sarcastic words through the bars, which made Renault, who was a little stunned, understand why he was also locked up: because he failed to control the situation immediately after discovering the facts of the case, which made the matter a big deal.
The Howe Fortress, surrounded by enemies, did not care who was more reasonable in a conflict. Its commander did not want any conflict to occur at all.
After that, there was the cliche "no fight, no acquaintance" plot, and the two became friends inexplicably.
"If there was no value, we would not deliberately mobilize our 'Demons from Heaven'." Renault regained consciousness for a moment, then shook his head and opened the mission briefing he had received previously on the screen inside the helmet again.
“[Federal 321st Legion, ‘Devil of Heaven’.]”
With the electronic synthesized sound, the Legion logo and the Special Forces logo rotated in parallel for a few seconds and then flashed by, followed by a bird's-eye view of Fortress Howe and the surrounding area.
"[Howe Fortress is under siege by the Minmatar sector rebels. Their attack directions are here, here and here. We must stop their advance, and the suitable locations for blocking are here, here and here.]
"
Except for the side of the fortress against the mountain, thick arrows appeared in all three directions and approached the fortress. After the word "location" was exported, the forward momentum of the arrows stopped, followed by a clicking sound like writing on paper.
There was a sound, and several horizontal bars symbolizing a solid line of defense appeared in front of them.
"[Our air defense force is insufficient. In order to protect the defense lines, we need to deploy air defense arrays near them, such as here.]"
Swish, swish, swish - many circles appeared around the horizontal line representing the "line of defense".
"[According to intelligence, during this battle, the Minmatar rebels may conduct sneak attacks on weakly defended areas through stealth or airdropping orbital capsules. They will appear——here.]"
With the familiar crunching sound, some relatively empty locations were marked with crosses, even the inside of the fortress and the cliff behind it were not spared.
Perhaps judging that the too dense markings on the map affected morale, the electronic voice continued to speak after a pause:
"[Obviously, such a huge army requires equally huge logistics, and the enemy is in a hurry and unable to cover up and protect the newly built supply depots. If we can destroy them, it will be possible to win early.]"
The surrounded Howe Fortress stretched out an arrow with the momentum of a desperate counterattack, pointing straight to the edge of the map, which was the starting point of two of the "arrows" of the Minmatar rebels.
"[Unfortunately, due to the divided control area, we are unable to provide any support to the soldiers who have chosen this mission. You can only rely on yourself.]"
"【good luck.】"
At the end of the briefing, the icon of "Demon from Heaven" with black wings and a white skull rotated three more times before the whole briefing was completely over.
This was not the case in the original briefing. A "Select the battlefield to join" option replaced the last two sentences. In addition to sneak attacks on the rear, the battlefields that can be selected include frontal defense against enemies, protection of air defense positions, fortress patrols and targeted strikes.
The glowing circle and the arrow pointing to it represent, and in the end, after many considerations, Renault chose this mission of attacking the rear.
After all, this is the interstellar age. If you want to catch the enemy off guard through information gaps, the cost is not even a little higher than before. It is often possible to predict the opponent's fighting style before the war begins. If all the participants in the war are clones, even the results will not be known.
It can be determined, so what will ultimately tip the balance of victory is the natural man special forces with unpredictable behavior like the "Devils of Heaven".
In other words, the Minmatar side knew from the beginning the strategy of Howe Fortress to sneak attack the supply depot, and Howe Fortress also knew that they knew it. The suspense is which side will send natural troops. If both sides send natural troops,
Which side will win again.
If the game is further carried out, in a battle such as a sneak attack on a supply depot, in theory, more weapons with higher damage to buildings should be brought. When the defender realizes this, they will naturally send out troops and weapons that are effective against those "siege weapons"
, but if the attacking target responds to this point and sends out troops and weapons that are effective against "engineering weapons troops"...
The one who thinks too much about one level wins, the one who thinks too much about two levels loses.
The "Devils of Heaven" special team's choice is an infantry-tank coordination tactic that does not occupy either side. No matter what combination of arms they prefer, they can achieve a 50-50 split.
As for the tank, it’s the one at the back——
Boom boom boom! The transport plane behind exploded in the air, and the ship Renault was riding on also started to spin wildly as if it had been hit by a hammer.
The alarm bell blared inside the transport plane, and the soldiers who were holding on to their arms staggered for a while.
"[Discovered 'Valkyrie' and 'Goliath'!]" the pilot shouted loudly: "[Those idiots want to blow us up in the sky! Get everything ready, I'm going to airdrop in advance!]"
"Haha!" Tychus laughed: "We are paratroopers, born to be surrounded!"
Before he finished speaking, the cabin floor opened, and he was thrown down together with Renault and two groups of nearby soldiers.
