Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 294: Rules of Victory
"Come again, come again!"

After the three appeared in the wilderness, Guilliman couldn't wait to click on the option.

Angron seemed uncomfortable and he didn't want to continue playing because he couldn't feel the emotions of the characters in this game, and Guilliman didn't even have any emotions when he was killed, because he was used to it in his previous game with Corax.

But Angron still felt bad.

His mind recalled the scenes of the gladiator being cut in half by Guilliman.

I feel heartbroken every time I think of it.

Angron, who already understood psychology, realized that this game touched upon his deepest fear - the fear of losing someone he cared about.

"Are you ready, brother?" Guilliman smiled and looked at Angron.

Angron felt joy and satisfaction from the other party.

Guilliman liked this kind of war game very much, and he also liked the feeling of competing with opponents of the same level, so he was very happy.

"..." Angron was silent for a moment, forced a smile, and nodded, "Let's get started."

Qin Xia patted Angron on the back. He had already noticed Angron's discomfort.

Angron shook his head.

The game begins again.

As always, Guilliman brainstormed and Angron attacked.

Because it is still a void battle and the battlefield environment has not changed, the general process is exactly the same as the previous game.

The Steadfast Resolve rushed forward with its void shield on.

Qin Xia boarded the ship.

However, this time Guilliman made appropriate adjustments, taking the initiative and allowing the people of the First Regiment to directly board the Resolute.

The 18th Company of the World Eaters went to intercept the 1st Chapter.

Qin Xia and Angron boarded the ship and arrived at the Glory of Macragge.

Guilliman also made defensive deployments, and they were more thorough than last time. But this time when Qin Xia appeared in front of everyone, he was accompanied by the God Titan who walked out of the ice and snow.

Guilliman was blown away along with the command deck by the psychic torrent released by the spearhead of the God-Prince Titan.

"Come again, come again!"

Guilliman begins a new game again.

Although he lost twice he was still very happy because when he played by himself in the past the intelligent AI generated by the device was not challenging at all. But Angron was different. Angron and his legion could always surprise Guilliman.

Games are interesting only when there are winners and losers.

The environment of the second game remained unchanged, only Guilliman's countermeasures changed.

This time when Qin Xia boarded the Glory of Macragge with the God-King Titan and Angron, a large siege weapon provided by the Mechanicus was deployed. It was not a volcano cannon or a general cannon, but a weapon Qin Xia had never seen before.

This weapon easily pierced the God Titan.

When the God Titan was gone, Qin Xia realized that the weapon was firing a psychic attack.

But in the end, Angron and Qin Xia killed General Guilliman together.

The third game begins again.

Since every game was pretty much the same, with one side directly attacking and the other side defending, Qin Xia found it boring and no longer focused entirely on the game. Instead, he began to observe some weapons used by the Thirteenth Legion that he had never seen before.

Qin Xia even managed to seize a weapon and used it to blow up the command deck of Macragge's Glory.

The only difference between the fourth game and the previous one was that Guilliman was not blown up along with the command deck, but instead engaged in close combat with Qin Xia and Angron.

Angron sensed that Guilliman actually enjoyed the feeling of close combat.

A super marshal who is good at planning and strategizing, but has the heart of a frontline soldier.

It was not until the fifth game that Angron sensed that Guilliman had changed his mind.

"He should change his tactics this time," Qin Xia said.

Angron looked at the tactical table.

Guilliman's strategic maneuvers were different from the previous four games.

“He could have beaten us from the third round, but his idea was to play another round of fighting.” Angron stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the tactical table, his voice low, “He will indeed change his tactics, but how can I respond…”

“I know how I’m going to handle this.”

“But I have no way of doing it.”

Angron pointed to his fleet.

"The 12th Legion is an assault legion. I want to use different tactics at this time, but there is no other way."

"For example, if I want to use armored forces to intercept the armored forces of the Thirteenth Legion, Captain Captella of the Thirty-Seventh Company does not have that many tanks and personnel... Even if we have given him reinforcements before, it is still not enough."

"I wanted to implement a tactic, but I didn't have the material basis to do it."

Angron was helpless as he said this, thinking that this was why he had to make up his mind to change the original combat style of the 12th Legion.

"Just do your best." Qin Xia said.

Angron nodded slowly.

Faced with the assault from the Twelfth Legion, the Thirteenth Legion began to dispatch scattered warship formations to obstruct the Twelfth Legion's advance.

And Angron sensed that Guilliman was beginning to think differently than he had in every previous battle.

Time was delayed.

And every second that passes, Guilliman will have a result of thought.

Any option of the XII Legion was taken into consideration, and Guilliman had also thought about how to deal with any option of the XII Legion.

Guilliman's mind was like an iron wall, surrounding the Twelve Legions.

No matter what Angron chose to do, his options would be solved by Guilliman as his tactics became extremely limited due to the material basis.

After thinking with the experience accumulated from each previous game, Guilliman began to act.

Every warship of the Thirteenth Legion's fleet began to adjust and they no longer maintained formation.

Angron tried to destroy the few warships in front of him, but when he turned around, he found that other warships and the flagship had fallen behind and were inevitably fighting with enemy ships that appeared from other directions. The Resolute Resolve was soon bombarded again.

The conventional void shield overload dissipated, and the ancient void shield began to intercept the frontal firepower.

As always, no firepower could break through the interception of the ancient void shield.

Until a large number of carrier-based aircraft of the Macragge's Glory began to take off and rushed into the interception range of the void shield, dropping bombs at all costs while being obstructed by close defense firepower.

Boarding torpedoes were also fired.

"I'm going to join the Glory of Macragge." Qin Xia turned and was about to leave.

But then a holographic image on the command deck projected the interior of the battleship.

Near the void shield, a large number of boarding torpedoes were embedded in the hull, and the Extreme Marines wearing Terminator armor walked out.

"I'm going to the void shield." Qin Xia teleported out of the command deck.

Just when Qin Xia appeared near the void shield and was about to protect this most important facility, the battleship's engine was also boarded.

The World Eaters have moved to intercept them.

The other part of the World Eaters were taken by Angron to board the Glory of Macragge.

Guilliman had moved his position early. He did not command on the command deck, but was in a corner of the huge Queen of Glorious class battleship, giving orders to a miniaturized command device.

There were not even any Space Marines at the Primarch's side.

Everything in the war turned cold.

Guilliman gave orders to the command device expressionlessly, according to everything he had planned beforehand, like a ruthless command machine.

"Confirm execution."

When the voices of his subordinates sounded on the communication channel, Guilliman, who was asked to approve a special operation, confirmed it.

Then on the other side, near the area where Qin Xia was defending the void shield, a team of carrier-based aircraft flew over the anti-aircraft firepower network at an extremely fast speed regardless of cost, and in the end only one carrier-based aircraft successfully launched a torpedo.

The torpedo exploded near the target ship.

Guilliman saw what was there.

The right side of the ship was blown up, and the violent explosion illuminated the dark void.

Qin Xia, who was transferred to the outside of the venue, spread his hands and said, "What can I say?"

"Qin Xia OUT!"

A loud reminder sound rang out.

Qin Xia was helpless.

Because the device is a virtual entity and is not here, so when he was blown to death just now, even his passive predictive ability that would be activated when encountering serious danger did not work.

Angron continued to fight, and only realized that Guilliman was not there after he reached the command deck of Macragge's Glory.

But the White Knight Librarians firmly stated that Guilliman was on the command deck.

Guilliman is not here, but the Ultramarines' Librarians are.

The next second, the think tanks teleported Angron alone into an empty cabin.

Just as Angron was looking around, the void shield of Macragge's Glory was lifted, and a cruiser that had been following the flagship began firing at the flagship of its own Thirteenth Legion.

The cabin where Angron was located was hit by light spears and macro cannons one after another.

"Angron OUT!"

"Guilliman wins!"

The game is over, and the created virtual battlefield disappears completely.

Qin Xia and Angron looked at Guilliman who was approaching.

Guilliman smiled: "Hey."

“Your thinking ability is really powerful.” Angron admired sincerely, “I feel like I am competing in strategy with a staff, a staff composed of primarchs.”

Guilliman looked a little proud, but soon became serious: "This is a game that can be played again. If not, I don't know how many people will have to sacrifice to achieve victory."

Angron thought for a moment and said, "You will have the upper hand from the second round onwards. You can definitely defeat us in the third round."

In Angron's opinion, if the battle lasts longer, Guilliman's chances of winning will increase.

The only way to defeat Guilliman is to launch a quick, accurate and ruthless attack. Even if one has a legion like the Thirteenth Legion, and competes with Guilliman in various tactics, the result will most likely be defeat.

"We all have our strengths, brother," Guilliman said. "Your gift is a double-edged sword. It can hurt you, but it can also bring you greater benefits. For example, you can unite people who are good at doing things that you are not good at."

"When I select generals, strategic ability is not what I value most, because no matter how powerful a person is, there will always be someone more powerful than him in the vast universe."

"Ultramar has never lacked powerful generals and warriors, or strategists, or managers that I think are powerful. It only lacks one kind of person, that is, someone who can unite these people instead of wasting time and energy on each other."

Guilliman expressed his own feelings.

He felt that Angron might have been created by the Emperor to unite the others.

A bond that binds brothers together... or something like that.

Just like Perturabo...

Guilliman thought about what he had heard about Perturabo's recent situation. First, Perturabo hated Angron's ability, but he also liked to be close to Angron.

Angron was not good at defensive warfare or positional warfare, let alone inventing powerful technological creations.

But so what? If he could unite with Perturabo, he only had to ask for help. No matter how much knowledge Angron learned about defensive and positional warfare, could it be more effective than Perturabo himself coming to fight on his behalf?

Guilliman thought so.

"There is no need to force yourself to be good at things that you are not good at." Guilliman spoke again.

Angron nodded. “I understand.”

"You know nothing." Qin Xia thought.

Qin Xia had also said what Guilliman was saying now, but not in such depth...but Angron just wanted to learn it all by himself.

Perhaps it was the incident of Perturabo's escape that made Angron feel that it was not easy to get along with brothers who were also Primarchs and had strong personalities.

(End of this chapter)