If we use the ship classification of the human naval warfare era to label the biological ships in the insect fleet, then the Allosaurus is similar to a small and fast torpedo boat. Of course, they do not have torpedoes.
The Corruptor is equivalent to a cruiser, or to be more specific, a light cruiser.
The brood lord is undoubtedly an aircraft carrier, and the brooder it launches are the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier.
It's just that no human aircraft carrier has as nearly endless carrier-based aircraft as it does.
As for the new unit "Heavy Artillery Governor"...
Xue Hua believes that they can be regarded as battleships.
That's right, it's the kind of maritime war fortress with large-caliber naval guns and super defensive capabilities that has been replaced by aircraft carriers in modern warfare.
In the late period of the naval warfare era, the status of battleships began to decline rapidly due to the versatility and ultra-long strike range of aircraft carriers.
Because they often have no time to discover the specific location of the aircraft carrier and will be directly sunk by the carrier-based aircraft.
However, in space wars, this kind of multi-turret battleship has never been out of date.
To be precise, any super battleship that appears on the space battlefield has the main characteristics of both CV (aircraft carrier) and BB (battleship) ships, that is, it can use large-caliber naval guns to directly destroy the enemy.
It can also store carrier-based aircraft or drone production lines in the body so that aircraft carrier tactics can be used for response when necessary.
Since there are no displacement and tonnage restrictions, these super battleships are very large in size. It is completely possible to deploy two completely different weapon systems in the bellies of these behemoths.
Just like the human Minotaur-class battlecruiser, this kind of battleship only shows powerful gun firepower in the game. Only in a certain campaign level, Jim Raynor's ship, the Hyperion (
It was a completely refitted battlecruiser) that demonstrated the ability to release unmanned attack aircraft.
However, in fact, all Minotaur-class battlecruisers and other types of human battlecruisers derived from it have the ability to release escort drones.
These drones don't fly very far, but they can intercept and defend small hostile targets when they approach the ship. They can also perform some more special tasks or simply gather together to block incoming fusion mines and missiles for the ship.
Other shells.
Moreover, these drones also have various other functions, such as simple maintenance on the ship hull.
The internal systems of a human battlecruiser are far more complex than what is shown in the game.
At the very least, there are at least no less than 4,000 crew members inside these giant steel behemoths with a long axis of 8 kilometers and a horizontal axis of 5.2 kilometers to maintain their operations.
And this is probably its minimum capacity.
However, the biological battleships of the insect swarm do not have this treatment.
Of course, they don't need to.
Because the biological battleships of the swarm are all living creatures, they can command various weapons and other "equipment" on their bodies just like humans command their own bodies.
Therefore, most of the warships of the swarm are much smaller in size than the other two races.
And it is this "smallness" that is the biggest reason why they can form a huge numerical advantage.
Because "small" means consuming relatively less resources, it is easier to produce larger quantities.
But this "smallness" also brings some problems.
The most obvious problem is that the Zerg biological battleships basically only have one type of weapon mode.
For example, the Brood Lord can only hatch brood worms as a means of attack and cannot spit out acid or fire needles to directly attack the target.
To put it simply, the Brood Lord's attack methods are basically indirect, attacking the target through the "drone" it hatches.
The flaw of this attack method is that once the brood worms it hatches cannot successfully pass through the target's fire protection network, their attack power will be greatly weakened.
Just like an aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft crashes into the dense firepower network of an air defense cruiser, it will be easily intercepted.
That's why Xue Hua said it is more like an aircraft carrier.
But the attack method of the new unit Heavy Artillery Governor is much more direct. It directly synthesizes biochemical artillery shells through the organs in the body to hit the target. These biochemical artillery shells are filled with acid and plasma, and their flying speed is faster than that of "drone".
Much faster.
In addition, once these shells touch the target, they will immediately release all their destructive power, so they cannot be intercepted or prevented from causing damage to the target.
This is very similar to the shells fired by the large-caliber naval guns of the battleships.
Although the range is relatively short, it can only block but cannot intercept.
Therefore, when Xue Hua fully understood the attack method of the Heavy Artillery Governor, he transferred all the Heavy Artillery Governors, including the main fleet at the rear, to the front line, letting them replace the Brood Lords to take the main attack on the human supply depot.
strength.
Such a change, the effect is indeed outstanding.
The psychic crushing force field released by the human psychic crusher had no reaction at all to these shells, allowing them to directly hit the human defenses one after another.
Bunkers and missile towers were destroyed one after another, and black plasma energy was released from the exploding shells. They quickly spread to the human rear buildings and ignited everything that could burn.
The Marines ran out of various bunkers, and the CMC armor on their bodies burned fiercely in the black flames. Many supply station staff brought fire extinguishers to try to put out the fire on the wailing unfortunates, but
In the past, flame-retardant fire extinguishers, which were effective in dealing with any kind of fire, had no effect on these black flames.
The flames quickly spread to the interior of the supply depot, burning even some heavily armored siege tanks and Viking fighters that had not yet taken off.
Several dazzling flames shot into the sky from the southeast corner of the supply station along with the explosion, and the warehouse where the widow mines were stored was finally ignited.
The small fusion reactor in the Widow Mine dealt a fatal blow to the supply depot, and a large number of defensive weapons that had not yet been used were destroyed in the explosion.
However, even though the situation in the supply depot had deteriorated, the heavy artillery governors did not stop attacking.
Their main guns have a slow rate of fire, but the firepower of the secondary guns on both sides of their bodies is terrifying.
The secondary cannon of the Heavy Artillery Governor shoots large sharp needles covered with fragile red cuticles. The interior of these needles are filled with explosive chemicals and sealed plasma. When these one-meter long needles are
When the giant spines hit a certain unit or the ground, the fragile cuticle on their surface will shatter, and then the plasma inside will be activated and instantly ignite the vaporized chemicals.
Then, the hot blast shock wave formed by the huge explosion and the black fire wave that spread out would instantly ignite everything within a radius of more than ten meters.
By the way, those hot wind shock waves will also blow the already burning flames farther away.
Many buildings that would not otherwise have burned were ignited in this way.
The heavy artillery governor's attack continued for more than ten minutes. It was not until there was nothing left in the entire human supply depot that Xue Hua ordered them to stop and prepare to return.
At this time, the scene in front of him quickly retracted, and the figures of Evolution Chamber and Abathur appeared in front of him again.
Xue Hua was very satisfied with the upgrade of the swarm and the new units. Although he does not have enough resources to incubate these new war weapons now, with Zagara's development speed, within a few days, there will be 100 new units in the Zerg fleet.
Some new members can be added.
However, after reading all of Abathur's research results, Xue Hua did not rush out. Instead, he grabbed the insect swarm evolution master who was about to sneak back into the laboratory and started chatting.
"Abathur, although your work progress is quite fast, Isa told me that Dehaka is still providing us with new genetic essence, and we cannot let go of the research on those genes.
, so you still have to speed up..."
"The original zerg Dehaka is ignorant. Most of the biological essences he selected are useless. The swarm cannot obtain any evolution from these essences. Moreover, there are abnormal traces in these essences, but they have not been verified and there is no way to know more.
Please tell me, I can't risk making genetic changes to the insect swarm from unknown sources, so I'm putting it on hold for now, waiting to find out the situation before making a conclusion..."
