Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Leaving Ophelia was not the end of a battle for Calvin, nor was it even a break from high-intensity official duties.

There is no theoretical limit to the life span of Astartes, and this is especially true for Primarchs.

Calvin's life was so long that it had no end, so his concept of time was inevitably far away from the cognition of mortals. And his increasingly inhuman physical fitness also made Calvin move faster on this fork in the road.

Working around the clock for several days to deal with official duties was a commonplace matter in his eyes; a days-long battle with his son on the training ground was also a way for him to release the inexhaustible energy in his body. a choice.

But his main time is still occupied by the increase in official documents that can be seen with the naked eye. This is an inevitable change brought about by the Gray Knights as a legion starting to operate independently; it is also the reason why he is now a Tai of the "Emperor's Shadow". The lord has the inevitable rights and obligations arising from the huge department under his jurisdiction and management.

"I'm too busy to die." Although the origin of this sentence has a lingering dark stain.

But the location of that person and what he did made these words seem extremely true to any Lord of Terra.

At this time, the veterans of the Grand Master Council of the Gray Knights Chapter have delegated most of the power of legion construction to Calvin himself, and they themselves are leading the previous generation of Gray Knights to busily travel within the borders of the empire.

Of course, they are not all trustees. Among the high-ranking officers in the inner circle, Yule, as the one with the best personal relationship with Calvin, should have been the best person to assist Calvin. (After Aidan's death, had he not died in Orpheus, he would have been the best choice for this position.)

But the enemies of the Imperium would not understand their difficulties, and fighting was taking place in Orpheus and other directions within the Storm Sector.

At the same time, the Gray Knights Chapter is undergoing internal construction and transformation and performing external functions. At this moment, every high-ranking officer is a precious resource.

Under forced circumstances, Yule was finally left in the direction of Orps, leading 150 former Gray Knights under his command, and became the person in charge (and fire captain) of the edge theater of the Storm Star Territory.

The personnel arrangement was so stretched that when Calvin's legion construction began to officially begin, and the official documents between Titan and Titan II became more and more complicated around him, he looked around and found that Gavin was the only one left around him. He is an old man.

But this is a guy who can't be counted on.

You must know that the position of the Templars in the battle group has always been more than just a champion swordsman. On the contrary, if you want to become a Templar, the basic condition is to become a person who has no ability in personal force and battlefield command. The flawed Gray Knight.

What next? Then these Templars who become glorious members of the Victory Hall will serve as adjutants all year round beside the Grand Masters and Captains of each Order.

The purpose is of course to protect the former, but it is also a duty of the Templars to learn the management of the Chapter under the influence of being with the former for a long time, so as to be promoted to the company commander, a real high-level leader of the Chapter in the future.

Gavins's martial arts skills and commanding abilities on the battlefield are unquestionable, but that's all.

His operational and management abilities have permanently stagnated in the era when he was still an arbiter, and he himself has no intention of strengthening his abilities in this area.

This was his own choice, otherwise he would not have stayed in the Victory Hall for two hundred years without promotion after serving more than a dozen senior leaders of the Chapter, and finally became one of the senior leaders of the Templars.

For this old girl who can't get married, Calvin can certainly trust him in battle - entrusting his juniors to him, but if he is asked to manage the operation and development of a new company, neither he nor the company will be a good person. Responsible choice.

According to the newly arrived official document, the first batch of new recruits on Titan have arrived in the Federman System. The think tanks of the Third Order also began to reorganize and train these new recruits in psychic disciplines on Titan II.

This is the last part of the basic training required for recruits. After completing this training, these recruits can break away from the centralized training of unified standards and start targeted practice in various directions according to their own preferences.

In view of this, there is an obvious shortage of equipment and training venues on Titan II.

After a comprehensive evaluation by the technical sergeant, Calvin has issued a transfer order to the Titan home planet based on the technical sergeant's work results.

A large amount of equipment and supplies are being transported to Titan II in an orderly manner via the battleships of the Second Order.

But this is just the beginning. Apart from the need for supplies, the real problem in legion building lies in the transformation of strategic and tactical positioning.

The organization and specific combat framework of the new corps must be shifted in the direction of frontal advancement of the large corps while maintaining the original special operations functions.

The integrated use of armored vehicles, joint operations with the Titan Legion and the Tindaros Legion, and even cooperation with the naval fleet above the orbit are all capabilities that the new legion lacks.

These inter-service cooperation and cross-unit joint command are completely blank at the command level within the battle group.

Fortunately, Calvin had many "selves" to rely on.

These experiences that can only be accumulated in the era of the Great Crusade are so precious, and the "threshold" for their operation is so expensive that the current empire can no longer replicate them;

The manner in which they were preserved was so harsh that as the veterans of the Legion's era withered away, even the founding Chapters could only rely on written records to make superficial speculations.

But Calvin is different. His service background in different legions in his many timelines is his own personal experience;

His combat styles and the logic behind the legions of the various Great Crusade eras also come from his own personal experience.

This kind of memory gradually summarized in the battles with various enemies of the empire gave him a deep and instinctive understanding of the organization and battle logic between the legions.

It was also through this understanding that he could clearly understand the strategic and tactical advantages of each legion and the combat environments they were good at. It also allowed him to clearly understand the enemies and enemies they were most afraid of under the powerful surface of each legion. battlefield environment.

This is a wealth bestowed by the Emperor on mankind, but it has been lost in the vastness of history; this is a code of ethics forged with the blood of all loyal Astartes warriors, but now only Calvin can inherit it completely.

These memories were unsealed from the depths of his soul under his deliberate recall, and turned into words and regulations under his summary and induction, which were transmitted word by word into the Legion will of the Gray Knights.

The advantage of the Legion's will was exploited to the extreme here, and every Gray Knight on board the Angel of Punishment benefited a lot.

Their psychic talents allow them to avoid inefficient verbal communication and achieve the most essential mutual understanding through psychic links. The complex tactical rules and regulations, the judgment of various situations and the reasons behind them, are also quickly transmitted to every Gray Knight's mind through this communication method.

They study while on duty, study while training, and even when sleeping, they invest their semi-awake consciousness into the cluster of legion's will.

It was against this background that Calvin's various thoughts on legion battles were absorbed and absorbed by these hungry souls. During the long period of time they sailed towards Holison's No. 5 sector, the Gray Knights were maturing towards completeness on a daily basis. The transformation of combat thinking in the legion era.

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