Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 292 Assault and Strategy

The loading progress bar finally reached the end after half an hour.

The device begins spawning all players' troops.

Behind Guilliman appeared the Ever-Victorious Army, as well as the very standard Space Marine formations of the Ultramarines, such as companies, chapters, battle squads, and then those Dreadnoughts, the armored units belonging to the XIII Legion, and so on.

But Angron still immediately set his sights on the Ever-Victorious Army.

There was no other reason, because Angron was really impressed by the handsome design of the Ever-Victorious Army.

Behind Angron, the men of the Twelve Legions gradually appeared.

The equipment generated troops according to the thoughts it read, so what was generated was not the all-powerful version of the Twelfth Legion that Angron was still planning, but an assault version of the Twelfth Legion.

The gladiators gathered around Angron, each of them behaving exactly as Angron remembered them, fighting silently, standing in tight formations, glancing to the left and right from time to time.

Everyone was wearing a helmet so their eyes couldn't be seen, but every turn of their heads and where the scarlet light of their tactical eyepieces shone could serve as clues for the gladiators to interpret each other's intentions.

"Everything seems to be normal." Guilliman glanced at all the people in the 12th Legion, and then his eyes fell on Qin Xia.

A row of White Knight think tanks appeared behind Qin Xia.

Then another row appeared, and then another, until finally the number of Librarians was greater than all the Twelve Legions combined.

Guilliman was in a daze for a second: "When did you create a cheat to spawn Martian soldiers?"

"You also know about Martian soldiers?" Qin Xia was stunned.

"There are some records of previous players in this game. When they were playing, they would speak some ancient language, and the word Martian soldiers was one of them." Guilliman said, "It seems to be used to describe the troops that were refreshed inexplicably... There should have been cheats at that time. I also learned the word cheat from the player records."

"Okay." Qin Xia looked back at the think tanks, "This should be a program error."

Qin Xia sensed that this device used psychic technology and could not read his thoughts, so he used his psychic power to influence the device and refresh so many think tanks.

This is just a try.

As soon as Qin Xia had a thought, more than 100,000 think tanks disappeared in an instant, and dozens of them reappeared.

"You see, this is normal." Qin Xia said.

Guilliman nodded, and his heart, which had just risen, fell again.

"Prepare for battle!"

An extremely loud voice echoed in the clouds.

But the battle did not start immediately, the voice began to introduce the players like an announcer.

"Ultimate Battle Battle Battle Battle Warrior!"

"Kikikiki Guilliman!"

Angron was stunned when he heard the voice.

He recalled the day when he first had to compete with a group of innocent people for the right to live in that damn arena, and survive in the abominable project called Devil's Tears.

This is how Gao Qishi, the host at that time, announced the show, stretching out his voice as if he were having an epileptic seizure whenever he said a certain word.

But Angron was not one to dwell on past memories or pain, and he quickly recovered after realizing that things were different now.

"World Devourer!"

"Angron!"

All the system-generated people behind Angron struck grim poses, as if they were performing a stage play.

"Qin Xia!"

"The first psychic of the 12th Legion!"

"Don't believe it? Ask Lando Egg of the Iron Warriors!"

Behind Qin Xia appeared Lando Egg, a member of the Fourth Legion who had died in the previous mission.

"No problem." Lando Egg nodded.

It was the first time that Guilliman had seen such a special announcement. He thought Qin Xia had played this game a long time ago and had unlocked a special appearance announcement item or something...

Qin Xia simply created everything by himself that should have been created by using psychic power to read memories.

In addition, this ability can also be used for other things, such as spawning Martian soldiers anytime and anywhere.

"Prepare!"

"start!"

The environment in which the three people were located changed, from the wilderness to the void.

Both fleets appeared near Mandeville Point at the same time.

Even naval personnel were generated as low-performance NPCs, but they were the kind of low-performance NPCs that would not copy everything including appearance and IQ one to one according to the player's memory.

Qin Xia appeared on the command deck of the Resolute Resolve, and subconsciously used his psychic vision to observe the other side of the galaxy, and saw Guilliman's huge Ultramar Five Hundred World Fleet.

On the other hand, our fleet is pitifully small.

“This game is so poorly balanced.” Angron walked over to the tactical table and leaned over to check everything he needed to make strategic decisions.

"How can a game that simulates a real war be fair?" Qin Xia also walked to the tactical table.

Just when the Lord of the Twelve Legions was about to start planning, he suddenly sensed Guilliman's thoughts at the moment - the two were not far away from each other outside the game device, so he could sense Guilliman.

Guilliman was brainstorming.

A literal brainstorm. His thoughts were as big and violent and fast as a storm.

An analysis of the current battlefield situation, an analysis of what the 12th Army might do next, and a comprehensive deployment plan for the 13th Army down to the company level...

These are performed one after the other, or occasionally simultaneously.

There were few people who could make Angron feel uncomfortable and stressed just by thinking. Even Perturabo, who was best at fighting defensive battles that required comprehensive considerations, did not have a mind as stormy as Guilliman's.

The Primarchs all think very quickly and can do many things at once...

But some Primarchs think faster and can do more, like Guilliman.

"What is he thinking about?" Qin Xia asked.

Angron rubbed his temple, taking a moment to adjust to Guilliman's thoughts. "I don't know where to begin."

Guilliman's thoughts caused Angron stress, but as Angron gradually adapted to what he sensed from Guilliman, Guilliman's thoughts were no longer a source of stress, but a benefit.

As the commander of the Thirteenth Legion in the game, Guilliman's thoughts are one-way transparent to Angron, which means that Angron can obtain any intelligence without doing any intelligence reconnaissance.

Angron wanted to tell Qin Xia about this, but just as he was about to open his mouth, Qin Xia already knew that Angron must be able to sense Guilliman's thoughts.

"Come on." Qin Xia tapped the fleet of the Thirteenth Legion displayed on the tactical table with his index finger joint. "How can there be fairness in reality?"

Angron immediately analyzed Guilliman's thoughts and made corresponding countermeasures.

Guilliman arranged for a frigate to detach from the fleet and open up a passage to an asteroid belt in the galaxy.

Angron sensed that Guilliman did this in order to lure the XII Legion's small number of warships to the vicinity of the asteroid belt, and then send a small number of warships to engage in a bombardment of the XII Legion's fleet. Due to the existence of the asteroid belt and the fact that the XII Legion's warships were not very good at void warfare and would not be equipped with the most advanced fire control systems provided by the Mechanicus, the XII Legion's warships near the asteroid belt might not be able to achieve any result even after firing at enemy ships that were smaller than their own for a long time.

Then, it was the encirclement and suppression.

Angron sent out a fast strike cruiser.

The Twelve Legions implemented the concept of assault in the void war.

This specially built strike cruiser did not have strong firepower but it had a very high speed. It ignited the rocket propulsion and moved forward at full speed, heading straight for the frigate. After occupying the area near the asteroid belt first, it easily destroyed the frigate sent by Guilliman.

But the frigate itself was a test sent by Guilliman, who wanted to know the difference between the fleet of the XII Legion and the information he heard from those working in the intelligence field.

Angron also knew that this was a test in itself, otherwise Guilliman would not have sent only one frigate, but he had to react immediately to prevent himself from being slow in one move and making mistakes in the following steps.

"Brother, are you open?" Guilliman suddenly realized something was wrong. He felt that the strategic deployment he had made could not be detected so quickly.

The large fleet will indeed appear on the tactical table of both sides, but how can a frigate be detected if it breaks away from the chaotic information flow near the large fleet and heads towards the asteroid belt?

"Oh... I was so absorbed in this that I forgot that we were standing next to each other in reality," said Guilliman.

Angron did not respond, for he sensed that Guilliman was not the only one to discover this information.

Guilliman was thinking that the fleet of the XII Legion was not strong after all, and they were fighting a void war, so he had to give Angron an advantage no matter what, otherwise Angron would think that he had come all the way here just to defeat him.

“This is a passive ability. It can’t be turned off,” Angron said.

"Your talent is indeed powerful." Guilliman smoothed his hair inside the Glory of Macragge and continued to think.

Guilliman entered into a brainstorming state again, able to think of countless strategies in an instant.

Angron was overwhelmed as Guilliman began to mix his thoughts with useless garbage, just like counterintelligence reconnaissance activities used to deceive opponents on the battlefield.

After filtering out as much useful information as possible from Guilliman's thoughts and thinking about how he should react... Angron suddenly gave up thinking.

"Why should I compete with Guilliman where he excels?"

This thought occurred to Angron.

Angron suddenly had a sense of enlightenment and no longer responded according to Guilliman's perceived strategy, nor did he pay attention to any deployment or changes on the battlefield.

The reason is that Angron has realized that the best way to deal with a thinking superman who is good at strategy and is good at making perfect plans in a short time is not to compete with this thinking superman in brainstorming, but to directly break all the methods with one force.

He charged forward directly, destroying all of Guilliman's preparations.

"All ships charge!" Angron waved his hand and gave the order.

After hearing this order, Qin Xia was silent for a second, then praised loudly: "Well done!"

He had wanted to remind Angron of the weakness of Guilliman that he was facing, but now it seemed unnecessary.

Guilliman's weakness is that he thinks too much and becomes at a loss when faced with unexpected events.

The characteristics of this Primarch are the same as those of the Thirteenth Legion, and the Thirteenth Legion will find it difficult to cope with any sudden situation.

This is how Corax defeated Guilliman three times in war games.

Angron and Qin Xia looked at each other and both nodded.

Then Qin Xia teleported back to his White Knight.

Angron turned around and ordered the expressionless naval officer beside him, "Put on my armor!"

The 12th Legion fleet began to charge towards the 13th Legion fleet.

Guilliman had imagined every option of the XII Legion. He would not have expected that Angron, as the Primarch of an assault legion, would directly order an assault. But he did not expect Angron to make such a decision so quickly. He thought it would take a while, one or two rounds.

Then Guilliman suddenly realized one thing, that is, when his mind was transparent, it was only a matter of time before his weakness was discovered by the other party.

I heard that Perturabo hated abilities like Angron's, and now it was obvious why Perturabo hated such abilities.

After a brief trance, Guilliman continued to brainstorm and prepare for the upcoming assault.

(End of this chapter)