Most of the biological ships of the Xel'Naga fleet use long-range energy weapons. These weapons are highly destructive and have high shooting accuracy, making them the best choice for long-range and ultra-long-range firefights.
However, in mid- to close-range battles, the weakness of biological ship hulls in using energy weapons will be exposed to the maximum extent. Since most biological ship hulls are not as large as mechanical ship hulls, they will have a problem when they use energy weapons.
The disadvantages are that it takes a long time and the cooling period is also long.
In fact, Abathur is not incapable of designing a swarm biological battleship that completely uses energy weapons as the main means of attack, but as it said, the effect of using energy weapons by biological battleships is actually far less effective than directly using biological weapons.
Well come.
Because there must be a prerequisite for the use of energy by living organisms, that is, the body must have organs that store energy. The energy in this energy storage organ is not like the energy in the laser cannon battery of the human battlecruiser that can be simply "replaced".
This method solves the battery life problem, which means that every time the energy weapon of the biological battleship is fired, it will take a long time to store energy for the next attack.
Therefore, even though energy weapons have advantages that biological weapons cannot match, Abathur has always abandoned them and insisted on only allowing the biological ships of the swarm to evolve biological and chemical weapons systems.
Its persistence has now paid off very well in this battle between the First Fleet and the Xel'Naga Fleet.
Although each salvo fired by the ships of the Xel'Naga Fleet can be considered ferocious, their firepower intensity and firepower endurance are far inferior to those of the First Fleet.
In addition, both fleets have now entered the "close combat zone" within 4,000 kilometers. At this distance, there is almost no difference between biochemical weapons and energy weapons in terms of accuracy, range and even power.
In this way, the advantage of the opponent's weapons is completely offset by the combat distance between the fleets, and instead, the weakness of the biological warship's use of energy weapons is fully exposed.
Facing the intensive firepower projection of the insect fleet, the Xel'Naga fleet could only launch a salvo burst intermittently. In terms of the firepower intensity of free fire, they were far inferior to the battleships of the First Fleet.
Therefore, when the first fleet used a sneak attack to gain a tactical advantage, the Xel'Naga fleet almost became the one completely suppressed by firepower.
Fortunately, the Xel'Naga fleet still has Saiqi, a flagship that can lay out a large-scale defensive wall, otherwise the Xel'Naga fleet would have been broken up and reorganized by now.
When it comes to defense, Saichi's large-scale psychic field barrier is certainly powerful, but the Krakens in the First Fleet are not walls of mud that can be knocked down with just one push.
The dormant Kraken's ability to withstand strikes is simply appalling. Even the twisted beam main cannon of the insect warships in the Xel'Naga fleet must hit the same position three times in a row to break through the Kraken's shell defense.
In this way, the first fleet used Kraken and Leviathan as the forerunners, gradually closing the fighting distance between the two fleets. The closer the exchange of fire, the more obvious the disadvantage of the Xel'Naga fleet.
However, Saichi is obviously not a fool. It quickly realized Stukov's tactical intentions. After discovering that it was difficult for its own fleet to take advantage of the swarm fleet in medium and close firefights, it quickly changed its tactics.
, while sending a large number of small biological fighters to harass the insect fleet, while leading the main fleet to retreat slowly.
Seeing this situation, Stukov also immediately ordered the light battleships and fighter planes in the insect swarm to advance forward to engage in firefights with the enemy fighter planes. At the same time, he ordered the main fleet to continue to suppress the enemy's firepower in accordance with the original tactical plan while continuing to pull out.
Increase the fighting distance between the two sides.
It had previously taken advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and used Leviathan's main gun to make a huge profit. Now, due to this reason, the opponent's fleet's firepower output was insufficient and it was difficult to break through the defense of the main ships in the front row of the swarm fleet. Such an opportunity
If you don't hold on to it, it won't be worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the insect fleet!
Moreover, the opponent has been holding back until now and has not sent out secondary flagships for close combat. It is obvious that they are still trying to use these secondary flagships to escape from the superior firepower circle of the insect swarm. However, how could Stukov let them do so easily?
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The reason why he hasn't liberated Kraken yet is because he is waiting for the time when the opponent can't help but use this move!
The opponent's commander will definitely think that once the zerg swarm liberates the Kraken, the heavy firepower ships in the back row will lose protection, and then it will definitely use this to try to regain the game from range.
So both sides are actually holding back now to see who can endure until the other party makes the first move.
The battle between the two fleets went all the way from the planet Felin to the third planet in this star system, and the intensity of the battle gradually became more intense.
Around the battlefield of the two fleets, large groups of mutalisks and shell-type fighters were also fighting fiercely with each other. The corruptors of the insect swarm and the shell-type light biological battleships of the Xel'Naga fleet were flying through the battlefield of the fighters.
Playing the role of reaper and expeller.
A part of the prowlers has been wandering around the edge of the battlefield of the main fleet. While avoiding the aftermath of the artillery fire, they are looking for gaps in the Xel'Naga fleet's defense, hoping to find opportunities to get in and cause big trouble.
But Saichi, who had already learned a lot of experience from the battle between the swarm and the Hernandas fleet, never gave them this chance.
It did an almost flawless job in defending its main fleet group. The Prowlers tried several times but failed to find a suitable opening to break into the defense circle.
The commanders of the two fleets were very patient. While they almost conducted fierce fire bombing and testing of each other's defense systems, they carefully controlled the combat distance between the two sides.
The cosmic void between the two sides was filled with missiles and beams of light coming and going, and various explosions also continuously erupted into colorful light groups on their respective defense systems.
Since entering the fleet firefight mode, neither the Leviathan of the insect swarm nor the snakeheads on the opponent's obelisk battleship have made a move.
Both sides know that the flagship firepower will be the last guarantee for the fleet's decisive battle, and it must not be used casually until the last moment.
Once which side's flagship takes the lead, the opponent's flagship will have many opportunities and means to interfere and dodge the opponent's flagship's attack.
You should know that although the flagship's main weapon is powerful, its long charging time makes it easy to dodge. Therefore, in addition to sneak attacks, the flagship's main gun is generally more effective against fixed targets.
More significant.
Especially at such a close distance.
Both fleets each have a very experienced commander, and they are both waiting for the other party to show its flaws first.
This kind of fleet battle is a normal battle between two equally matched fleets. As long as no one interferes at this time, this war can last for a long time.
But unfortunately, at this critical moment of endurance competition, one guy finally couldn't hold it in any longer...
