Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire

Chapter 91: On the General Principles of Imperial Alliance Tau Combat Tactics

When the soldiers of the Skadi Fourth Regiment recalled the historic meeting between the Skadi 1st Battle Group and the Tau main company, they all used one word to describe that event in unison.

A chicken talks to a duck.

The difference between Gothic and Tau Empire languages ​​cannot be said to be non-existent, it can be said to be completely different. It is difficult enough for the two troops to ensure that there are no friendly casualties and unified command. It can even be said that the Imperial Guard has been able to do this in human history. Two completely different cultures understand each other and go to war.

But the premise is never the same belief. For example, Ming Alan Bair looked well-equipped, and the Fire Caste wearing the commander's combat uniform used the Tau Unity Blade to gesture to his belly. You can probably guess it. what's the situation…

Alan Bayer thought casually... "Think about how the Ministry of Military Affairs will handle that matter..."

"Consultant, is there any good idea?"

The staff officer replied. "Regiment Commander, the officer department recommends that soldiers hold hats on the wrong side to praise each other or perform ceremonial gestures such as shaking legs."

"Hat?" Alan Bayer frowned, took his own bulletproof helmet, and gestured with his legs in a friendly way while saying. "I'm here, I'm on the good road, it's great!"

"He, the Emperor, is wrong about me, and I like him very much. We think it's great."

"Come on, put on the colorful hat instead!"

The Fire Caste commander looked at the humans in front of him with their teeth and claws. As an honorary warrior of the Tau Empire, he understood the emperor in it, and he was on the good path. Da Di, such words were combined.

"Qi Di, the emperor obeys, it is the good way, Da Da Di is good."

Alan Bayer cursed. "He has such a bad temper!" He rolled up his sleeves. If the staff hadn't stopped him quickly, the commander in front of him would have had his head cut off by a Catachan knife!

The Fire Caste commander was so frightened by the sudden change that he quickly raised his gun and was about to shoot. However, at this moment, the communication device of his battle suit turned on and made a beeping sound.

He turned on the loudspeaker of his battle suit, and the paralyzed Gothic voice of a senior Water Clan official came out.

"You Imperial Guardsmen, he recognizes that we erred in trusting the Tau Empire, even though we have no responsibility to protect that world."

Alan Beyer straightened his messy military uniform and coughed. "He knows very well that he and I are probably thinking the same thing. There is no electromagnetic interference in the world in Bu Nao. Why did it take so long to reply? My Fire Caste elites were almost hacked to death by him."

The announcer continued to answer. It has to be said that whether Titanium's equipment does not have the sizzling sound of the Empire, but whether it is really used in extreme battlefields, such as subspace interference, it may not mean that the Empire's equipment is real.

"Sorry, he is making a breakthrough with your Catachan sergeant and about a hundred fire warriors. The city has been completely occupied. If the soldiers there were not all soldiers on the battleship, they would probably die of betrayal."

"The Genestealers' combat effectiveness is not strong, but the sudden attacks and betrayal of the Fire Warriors of the same equipment level caught them off guard. They are too deadly for the Tau."

Alan Bair agreed sincerely, after all, the Titanium can be said to be the intelligent race with the shortest lifespan in the Warhammer universe, making it the best choice for gene stealers to survive quickly and die quickly.

Humans reach sexual maturity in 18 years, while Titanium takes less than 10 years, about eight years. If you don't care about the host body, Titanium can reproduce in six years, and normal Titanium members live and die very quickly, only 40 years. The life span is completely different than that of non-human beings. Of course, the eastern layer hive people probably can't live that long.

If not because of the perverted control of Titan's birth control and various medical equipment and even the awareness of the Kroot people, those gene stealers could not be infected on a large scale, Coco, the Tau tribe, would really meet his lifelong enemy.

But under such strict conditions, how could Dongti become infected on a large scale?

To paraphrase Jurassic Park, life will always find a way...

The question is whether if a registered citizen of Titanium and a fourth-generation gene stealer with almost the same DNA escape from that world, it will be no less than a biochemical crisis for Titanium. I hope that the fourth-generation gene stealer can be arranged normally. Marriage outside the clan, and if you find an opportunity to control people from other clans, it will get out of hand...

"Although he doesn't like to help aliens, he has to admit that there are many imperial worlds in that galaxy, and the bright Falakxia is also beautiful."

"No matter what, remember, that world is not an empire." Alan Bayer still emphasized that matter.

And he said. "He needs me to be the translator. Anyway, if he wants them to work together to clean up, don't they at least need to be able to communicate with each other?"

The senior official of the Water Clan replied. "He would often open that channel as a translator, which is his job."

Ailan Baier was not polite and came right away. "They have been paying for almost three hours. Now they are hungry. Let's eat first."

After saying that, after a long time, the senior official of the Water clan answered. "Okay, he agreed."

I have to say whether it was a good start. In fact, it was not even time for dinner, but if the soldiers came east, relying on food to communicate could increase the level of tacit understanding. The only problem was that the soldiers of the Fourth Skadi Regiment were mistaken for the aliens. Hatred cannot be said to be weak, it can be said that one wishes to give it a few extermination orders.

When the titanium soldiers were just walking next to their armored vehicles, they saw the veterans of the Skadi Fourth Regiment holding starch cubes and throwing them into their mouths, and then holding spanners and starting to dismantle their soldiers. The bee drone, that poor thing kept reporting threat alerts, but the soldiers of Skadi's 4th Regiment couldn't understand them at all.

After the Tau Fire Caste warriors saw the individual soldier rations taken away from their legs, they stood up angrily, and then several hollow heat ray weapons and explosive assault muskets made them walk east quietly.

Looking at the "happy" scene, the Fire Clan commander asked over the communicator again and again, is it really okay to cooperate with humans?

But they had no choice. The infection that time was different from usual, and they did not prepare for a rainy day. However, senior officials of the Fushui clan had always wondered why there were gene stealers who could break through strict genetic control and medical examinations and lurk until Rumi, and Why are they so obsessed with the version of the fourth-stage Genestealer that can be hidden but has the least combat effectiveness?

In the intricate legacy pipelines of the empire in that world, the fat and terrifying patriarch is feeling the constant flow of spiritual information from the Great Devourer and is frightened. It may have grown into a strange blue four-legged monster, but if any Tau people see it, If you touch him, you will definitely obey him, even if that thing is not a monster.

For a race of genestealers, an aether hybrid could be the key to turning the Tau's hell into heaven.

And its "mother" is an ether who worships force. She can't stand the loneliness brought by her high-power ether position and arranged marriage, so she leads a part of the ether bodyguard into a space hulk to explore and liberate it. External desires.

But by chance, the East Ether got separated from the Guards due to the complex environment of the hulk, and was finally controlled, and it was born in the Ether Palace of that world.

And it is born as a "premature infant", born from the intersection of two "ethers".

The newly born bastard used his own spiritual power and the control power of the wrong titanium as quickly as possible to change the understanding of those titaniums, making them feel that if the ether gave birth to a stillborn fetus, even with unparalleled medical technology and a powerful gene pool, it would be inevitable That won't happen.

When the stillborn fetus was buried with the grandest ceremony, it used its sharp sword to crawl out of its grave. However, the conditions for all births were extremely harsh. Regardless of the gender of the ether, the time for its marriage happened to be arranged. , not only the isolation of ether, but also the intricate channels of that world.

All that shaped it, the poison that killed the Tau, whether it was the Fire Caste or not in battle uniform, if the Titan who discovered it could not kill it, and if the person who discovered it didn't deny the Titan...

It seems that it almost controls that world, and it wants Ether, as a gene stealer, to control more worlds and continue to use its own abilities...

But it doesn't know that it has the right time, place and people, but it has encountered its lifelong enemy, human beings.

On the distant ground, Alan Bayer looked at the soldiers who were communicating cordially, and couldn't help but feel that he saw the thriving relationship between races in the future. If humans treat titanium as slaves, they would cut off their heads and do it. As a servitor, only aliens can be reluctantly trusted!

Alan Bair bit off the starch block in his leg, and the look of gnashing teeth made the Fire Warrior's body tremble. As elites of the Tau Empire, have they seen the battle video brought by the senior officials of the Water Caste? They were completely indifferent to Ru Ming's close distance. Or the wrong legs of those human-looking monsters.

Forged in the furnace called war, the monsters of Skadi's Fourth Regiment!

Even if the Fire Caste can rely on the learning machine to learn hundreds of years of experience, even if their weapons and equipment are good and can be compared with the elites of the empire, after all, they have never really accepted the terrible war, the kind of existence that is dozens of times more powerful than themselves. They and I face the same fear.

The fourth group of Skadi has experienced it, and some people have even experienced it twice!

Such a gap can be made up by the so-called learning machine. Tactical understanding, the relationship between teammates, the courage to face the terrible enemy, the ability to break the routine and adapt to changes, a strong commander and the confidence to live for death, are very important. The armor-piercing power brought by melta and explosive weapons will bring the Fire Caste elites to the same level as them.

Did that dinner party completely make the Fire Caste realize that the human troops in front of them were completely different from those they had encountered before, and that the Skadi Fourth Regiment also realized that the Soldier Bees seemed to be becoming less and less loyal the more they looked at them?

"Boss, will that machine soul shut up?!" the second lieutenant yelled.

Alan Bair pushed him away. "Stop making such a fuss, it will embarrass the empire."

Other soldiers also said. "Ti's rations taste good, but they're a bit bland." Then he gulped down the nutritionally balanced and exquisitely flavored stuff prepared by Ti for the Elites with the seasonings synthesized by Imperial Industries.

If it's broken, are they good at making things? Alan Bayer was thinking that and saw the soldiers of the engineering unit approaching the Hammerhead Shark fire support vehicle with spanners and cutting machines.

"That's enough, gather! Now they all set off to the planetary capital of that world. They will join up with the remaining soldiers of the Skadi Fourth Regiment, and then together they will protect the star port of that world."

"Before the weird weather in that world ends, and before the Bordero can launch a light spear attack, they must guard it. No matter how many aliens escape from that world, it will not be their mistake!"

"Remember, that galaxy is an imperial world. Those gene stealers will not have smooth sailing in the hive. If they leave, the loyalists of the empire will be persecuted even more, and they will not be able to guide the beacons of insects. They We must end it with them.”

"If he has to, he can destroy the star port, because the gene stealers will attract the insects. Even if the fourth Skadi regiment is completely wiped out, he has to ensure that other imperial worlds will not be destroyed by those alien fleets. Discover."

All the members of Skadi's Fourth Regiment gathered just seconds after the shouting. The old look they had before was gone. They were not the hammer of the Empire, the roar of the Emperor, nor the largest military organization in the universe. one.

Regardless of the alien's mistakes, their own food, the Adeptus Mechanicus, or anything else, as long as there are aliens, heretics, and aliens in front of them, the Emperor's currency will continue to fight.

Whether such a will can spread across races depends on whether they have conscience and goodwill, and whether they have the wisdom to be artistic and emotional...

If the Fire Warriors' feelings for Skadi's Fourth Regiment were filled with fear and helplessness before, now they have turned into real recognition. They don't need the Blade of Unity, but they are united because their Blade of Unity is still alive. of.

The Fire Caste commander looked at Alan Bair and praised a human without reservation for the first time in the language of his own race through his communicator.

"If he fights for the good, there will be no enemies for T'au in that universe."

"But whether he can defeat his enemy, he is not sure whether he can defeat him, because that kind of unity and that kind of will are not inferior to their flames."

A senior official of the Water Clan answered through the communicator. "Although they feel that the emperor's beliefs are barbaric, stupid, and reckless, they still have to admit that the light emitted by the human race is bright enough to rival any noble thing they have ever seen."

"But they must also realize that humans are not the best diplomatic partners, and when their etiquette overlaps, war can break out."

"He doesn't know what that great race has experienced, but he hopes that the Tau will not repeat the same mistakes, but if... one day the light of the ether does not shine in that universe, he cannot imagine their East Field, maybe they will worship the Emperor like Like crazy worship of their former honor."

The two titans were completely silent, but if Alan Bair heard what they said was wrong, he would say it.

The Emperor's light will always shine.

He had laid many foreshadowings for that thief, and he had to kill it properly.

(Pre-Imperial World, Aether, Humanity.)