Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 491 06.0490: "It's as awkward as being honest with each other in the locker room"

"Aft torpedo silo, wire-guided mode, target, enemy light cruiser."

Seeing that the other two attack ships had launched torpedoes, the Epic, which no longer needed to use torpedoes for gravity balance, could cooperate with friendly forces to deliver the final blow.

Regardless of whether this attack hits or not, the Epic should withdraw from the battlefield.

The last torpedo at the bow will be her ultimate means of survival and should not be wasted.

"Stern torpedo preheating completed."

"Enemy ship detected turning! Coming towards us!"

"It was the destroyer's signal wave. Since we were already away from the meteorite and facing them with our stern, it discovered the heat source of our stern engine."

"Calm down, gentlemen! It's not the last moment yet."

"Captain, should the rear torpedo lock onto the destroyer? If we destroy the destroyer, perhaps the enemy will not be able to detect us." First Mate Collingwood suggested.

"No! Just aim at that light cruiser." Horatio rejected the first mate's proposal.

"As long as we can severely damage the light cruiser, we can still deal with the destroyer in the asteroid belt. However, the threat gap of the light cruiser is something we cannot make up for no matter what."

"Understood, Captain."

"Torpedoes ready."

"emission!"

As the last torpedo from the stern of the Epic was fired, three torpedoes were fired at the commerce raider within a 90-degree range.

But the commander of the commerce raider was obviously experienced. He turned and sailed out of the asteroid belt, leaving the destroyer inside to continue locking the position of the Epic, the prey, hoping to avoid the torpedo by turning maneuvers and the obstruction of the asteroid belt.

As expected, the torpedoes fired by E-99 and E-47 at a distance of 3000 kilometers quickly hit two of the larger floating asteroids.

In the nuclear fusion explosion, the fragments of asteroids in the entire airspace were blown away and wandered around. Dozens of meteorites of different sizes burst forward like the attached steel balls in a fragmentation grenade, smashing the Tau destroyer inside into pieces in an instant - three meteorites of about 60,000 cubic meters hit the destroyer from the midship and stern at the same time.

The entire manta ray-shaped ship was smashed to become narrower on the left and right and elongated front and back, similar in shape to the long ships used by their compatriots in the merchant fleet.

The last meteorite put an end to the severely injured destroyer.

The plasma engine was blown to pieces, the engine cooling system completely failed, and the remaining engine unit expanded and overheated, causing the dark blue ion light to turn sharply into scarlet in the last few seconds.

boom!
Accompanied by the explosion of countless fragments, the destroyer was reduced to powder.

The nuclear fusion power of the two nuclear detonation torpedoes cleared part of the asteroid belt, making the airspace much clearer.

Although the Tau Empire's espionage commander was experienced, his experience did not include the Empire's new thermonuclear warheads.

If it had been conventional torpedoes, perhaps his plan would have succeeded - a torpedo with a plasma warhead could at most shatter a piece of an asteroid, and then could only scatter meteorites within a short distance.

Now, the lethality brought by the conspicuous nuclear fusion brilliance of the new torpedo far exceeds that of a salvo of 12 ordinary Imperial torpedoes.

Horatio had previously used the data from the Gothic Fleet rulebook to calculate the difference between the two torpedoes.

The killing value of an ordinary Imperial torpedo is 110, and it takes 10 hits to destroy a light cruiser.

But two thermonuclear warheads from a nuclear deflagration torpedo can do the same thing.

In other words, according to the tabletop rules, the damage of a torpedo is about 600.

One is better than six.

With such high damage, the splash on the asteroid belt after the explosion would naturally be even greater, which is why this scene that shocked the Titans so much.

However, this life-threatening attack also had a serious impact on the Epic.

High-speed meteorites kept passing around the ship. Amid the continuous impact sounds, all the crew members on the ship were terrified. Some even suffered cardiac arrest and had to be taken to emergency room.

But this was the least impactful result. If the Epic had been facing the explosion point horizontally, it might have been broken in half. This was just one of the effects of the explosion. The Epic survived with its smaller width, but a worse situation occurred.

Continuous nuclear fusion explosions temporarily produced an effect equivalent to the corona of a star, ejecting a number of high-temperature plasmas.

However, if the shadow field is too close to the star, it will be ineffective due to interference from the solar wind.

The principle is like an invisible person entering a room sprinkled with white flour, in which her shadow field has no meaning.

Moreover, the radiation waves from nuclear fusion will also cause abnormal overload in the shadow field, causing the system to automatically activate emergency protection and directly shut down the shadow field.

This directly exposed the Epic's true form in front of the light cruiser.

Now, in this clear sky without the protection of asteroids and meteorites, the Epic and the light cruiser, whose true forms were revealed, stared at each other in bewilderment.

The atmosphere was somewhat awkward, like two naked men being candid with each other in a locker room.

This was also the first time that the Empire's new warships officially appeared in the eyes of the Tau Empire.

"Torpedo! Use wire-guided control to kill her quickly!" Horatio clenched his fists, stood up quickly and shouted.

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"Captain, the technical priest of the aft torpedo room reported that the wire of the wire-guided torpedo was disturbed by the shock wave in the explosion just now, and then was scraped off by a meteorite that passed by.

Torpedo No. 5 is currently heading towards the final target set in automatic mode."

"Final position?" Horatio was startled and quickly entered the dark vision and looked at the command sand table.

Five minutes ago, before the two nuclear deflagration torpedoes detonated.

"I got you, prey." Latti, who had strolled to the stern torpedo control console at some point, smiled grimly and controlled the torpedo towards the target.

Suddenly, two dazzling lights like stars interrupted her aiming. In a hurry, she hurriedly activated the emergency protocol through the source power circuit, and used the secret method of the Mechanicus to merge man and lightning to perform emergency control.

The torpedo seemed to have inherited Latina's superb computing brain, and it rushed towards the target despite the nuclear fusion shock wave and countless scattered meteorites.

The torpedoes moved swiftly and dodged with exquisite reaction speed.

Suddenly, under the continuous force of the shock wave, the wiring port at the rear was impacted by an invisible force and became slightly loose.

The torpedo's maneuvering was therefore delayed, but it was still heading towards its designated target, the light cruiser.

Half of the close-in defense guns on the light cruiser were temporarily paralyzed by the huge nuclear fusion ion storm, and the remaining half opened fire immediately after discovering the target.

Meteorites and ion beams continued to pass by the torpedo. Latti had tried his best to operate the torpedo and avoided a rather large meteorite, preventing this crucial blow from crashing into the meteorite.

The bomb body and the meteorite almost brushed past each other, and the rolling and falling stone chips left a scratch mark on the outer shell, but fortunately the fuse was not activated.

At the moment of passing by, Latti corrected the torpedo launch position, but the next second, her connection with the torpedo was abruptly cut off.

When she traced the source, she found that it was a meteorite that had brushed past the torpedo. As the torpedo finally turned, it scraped off the wire that was trailing behind it.

But the torpedo was still speeding, and everything, the life and death of the Epic, depended on Latti's judgment on the torpedo's course calibration in the last microsecond.

When the crew stabilized and resumed control of the ship from the sudden nuclear fusion storm, they saw the third torpedo speeding towards them, which caused surprise and confusion.

The enemy is a battle-hardened Titanium Wolf King and should not be underestimated.

"Hold on! Crew! This isn't the worst moment we've ever faced! Let me do it!"

The Titanium Wolf King directly used his authority to take over the control of the artificial intelligence.

With the assistance of artificial intelligence, the wide Manta Ray began to perform emergency evasive turns.

But he only had 8 seconds left.

(End of this chapter)