Chapter Seventy-Six: The Governor of Heavy Artillery (Ask for Subscription~~)
If the living ships in the Swarm fleet are labeled according to the classification of ships in the era of human naval warfare, then Allosaurus is similar to small and fast torpedo boats, of course, they do not have torpedoes.
The Corruptor, on the other hand, is the equivalent of a cruiser, or more specifically, a light cruiser.
The nest lord is undoubtedly an aircraft carrier, and the nest worm it launches is the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier.
It's just that no human aircraft carrier has such an almost infinite number of carrier-based aircraft as it is.
As for the new unit "Governor of Heavy Artillery"......
Xue Hua thought that they should be considered battleships.
That's right, it is the kind of fortress of sea warfare that has been replaced by aircraft carriers in modern warfare, with large-caliber naval guns and super defensive capabilities.
In the late era of naval warfare, the status of battleships began to decline rapidly because of the versatility of aircraft carriers and their ultra-long strike range.
Because they often don't have time to discover the exact location of the aircraft carrier, they will be directly sunk by carrier-based aircraft.
However, in space warfare, such multi-turret warships have never been left behind.
To be precise, any super-warship that appears on the space battlefield has the main characteristics of two types of ships, CV (aircraft carrier) and BB (battleship), that is, it can not only use large-caliber naval guns to deliver direct and devastating strikes against the enemy, but also store carrier-based aircraft or UAV production lines in the body so that it can use carrier tactics to respond if necessary.
With no displacement and tonnage limitations, these superships are so large that it is possible to deploy two completely different weapon systems in the belly of these behemoths.
Like the human Minotaur-class battlecruisers, which only display great gunfire in the game, it is only in one campaign level that Jim Renault's ship, the Hyperion (a fully modified battlecruiser), shows the ability to unleash unmanned attack aircraft.
However, in reality, all Minotaur-class battlecruisers, as well as other types of human battlecruisers derived from it, are capable of releasing escort drones.
These drones don't fly far, but they can intercept and defend small hostile targets as they approach the hull, and they can also perform more specific missions or simply gather together to block the hull from incoming fusion thunderbolts and other shells.
In addition, these drones have a variety of other functions, such as simple maintenance of the ship's hull.
The internal systems of a human battlecruiser are far more complex than what is shown in the game.
At the very least, these giant steel behemoths with a long axis of 8 kilometers and a horizontal axis of 5.2 kilometers have an interior that has at least 4,000 crew members to maintain its operations.
And that's probably the bare minimum for it.
However, the swarm's living warships don't have this treatment.
Of course, they don't need to.
Because the living warships of the swarm are living creatures, they are able to command all kinds of weapons and other "equipment" on their bodies in the same way that humans command their own bodies.
As a result, most of the Swarm's warships are much smaller in size than the other two clans.
And it is precisely this "smallness" that contributes to the biggest reason why they can form a huge numerical advantage.
Because "small" means that relatively few resources are consumed, it is easier to produce more quantities.
But this "smallness" also poses some problems.
The most obvious problem with this is that there is basically only one type of weapon mode in the Zerg's biological battleships.
For example, the Hive Insect Lord can only hatch Hive Worms as a means of attack, and cannot spit acid or launch a spike needle to attack the target directly.
To put it simply, the Hive Insect Lord's attack method is basically indirect, and it is an attack on the target by those "drones" that it hatches.
The flaw of this attack method is that once the nest worms hatched by it are unable to pass through the target's fire protection network, their attack power will be greatly reduced.
Just as the carrier-based aircraft of an aircraft carrier crashed into the dense fire network of an air defense cruiser, it could easily be intercepted.
That's why Xue Hua said that it is more like an aircraft carrier.
However, the new unit, the Heavy Artillery Governor, has a much more direct means of attack, directly through the internal organs to synthesize biochemical shells to hit the target, these biochemical shells are filled with acid and plasma, and the flight speed is much faster than that of the "drone".
Coupled with the fact that these shells release all their destructive power as soon as they come into contact with the target, there is no way to intercept them or prevent them from inflicting damage on the target.
It's a lot like a shell fired from a battleship's large-caliber naval guns.
Although the range is relatively short, it can only block and cannot intercept.
Therefore, when Xue Hua thoroughly understood the attack method of the Heavy Artillery Governor, he transferred all the Heavy Artillery Governors, including the main fleet in the rear, to the front line, and let them replace the Hive Insect Lord to serve as the main strike force against the human supply depot.
With such a change, the effect is really outstanding.
The psionic smashing field released by the human psionic crusher did not react to these shells at all, allowing them to crash directly into the human fortifications.
Bunkers and missile towers were destroyed, jet-black plasma energy was released from the exploding shells, which soon spread to the rear buildings of the humans and ignited everything that could burn.
The Marines ran out of bunkers, their CMC armor burning fiercely in the black flames, and many of the depot staff brought fire extinguishers to try to extinguish the fires on the wailing hapless guys, but the flame-retardant fire extinguishers, which had been effective against any fire, had no effect on the black flames.
The flames soon spread to the interior of the supply depot, and even some heavily armored siege tanks and Viking fighters that had not yet taken off were on fire.
Several dazzling fires burst into the sky from the southeast corner of the supply depot with explosions, and the warehouse where the widow ray was stored was finally ignited.
The small fusion reactor in the widow mine dealt a fatal blow to the supply station, and a large number of defensive weapons that could not be used were destroyed in the explosion.
However, even though the situation in the supply depot had eroded, the Heavy Artillery Governors did not stop attacking.
Their main guns do not fire quickly, but the secondary guns on both sides of their bodies have terrifying fire.
The Governor's secondary cannon fires a large, sharp spike covered in a red fragile cuticle, which is filled with explosive chemicals and trapped plasma, and when these massive one-meter-long spines hit a unit or the ground, the fragile cuticle on their surface shatters, and the plasma inside is activated and ignites the vaporized chemicals.
Then, the hot wind 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 air shockwaves can blow the flames that are already burning farther away.
Many buildings that would not have burned were set on fire in this way.
The Heavy Artillery Governor's attack lasted for more than ten minutes, until there was nothing left to bombard in the entire human supply depot, and Xue Hua ordered them to stop and prepare to start their return voyage.
And at this moment, the picture in front of him quickly retracted, and the figures of the Evolution Cavity and Abbather appeared in front of him again.
Xue Hua was very satisfied with the swarm upgrade and the new units this time, although he didn't have enough resources to hatch these new war weapons now, but with Zagara's development speed, in a few days, some new members could be added to the Zerg fleet.
However, after reading all of Abasser's research results, Xue Hua did not rush out, but grabbed the swarm evolution master who was about to go back to the laboratory and chatted.
"Abasser, although your work is progressing quite quickly, Isha told me that Dhaka is still providing us with new genetic essences, and you can't let go of the research on those genes, so you still have to speed up......"
"The primordial insect Dehaka, ignorant and ignorant, the biological essences chosen, most of them are useless, the swarm cannot get any evolution from these essences, and there are abnormal traces in these essences, but they have not been verified, no more information can be learned, I can't risk genetic changes of unknown origin on the swarm, so I put it on hold for the time being, waiting for the situation to be clarified, and then make a conclusion......"