Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Lawson's eyes suddenly narrowed.

Now, in his combat-type assassin category, there is an additional option for Oglin assassins.

The genetic map of the mutated subhuman has been analyzed.

New unit template: Euglin Death Squad.

Basic exchange cost: 600 Life Points / 60 cubic meters of Fine Steel.

Upon seeing the price, Lawson's eyes twitched slightly.

The basic version of the Catachan elite assassins was significantly cheaper in the early stages.

But Lawson immediately calculated the combat power in his mind and instantly understood the rationality of the price.

Even the unenhanced, wild base version of the Oglin possesses raw physical strength, bone density, and resistance to blunt force and light firepower that rivals or even overwhelms Space Marine recruits without power armor.

They are veritable biological bulldozers in the Imperial arsenal.

Six hundred life points plus sixty cubic meters of refined steel in exchange for a flesh-and-blood battering ram that requires no fuel or maintenance—this deal is an absolute windfall in the economics of war.

not to mention……

But that's not the core value.

Lawson's gaze was fixed on a line of small gold text at the bottom of the panel.

Special correction: This unit is generated by the system and directly connected to the swarm intelligence network. The defects of 'prefrontal atrophy' and 'logic center degeneration' in the original gene map have been forcibly removed.

Lawson's fingers, which were holding the cigar, suddenly paused.

This short line overturned the empire's ten-thousand-year-old common sense about warfare.

Why do the Imperial Star Forces only use the Oglins as cannon fodder for assaults or as human shields for generals?

Because they are stupid.

Because they cannot understand complex tactical instructions or identify the crossfire lines of friendly forces, once they become bloodthirsty, they will even tear the Astrail Forces in their path to shreds.

Their intellectual deficiencies have dashed their chances of becoming high-ranking soldiers.

However, the Oglin assassins obtained through the system do not have any intellectual deficiencies.

Their brains will act as nodes, directly connecting to swarm intelligence.

This means that a berserk beast that stands 4.2 meters tall, weighs several tons, and can overturn a Chimera armored vehicle with its bare hands will possess a tactical brain as cold, precise, and absolutely rational as the White Tiger elite.

They will automatically calculate the evasive trajectories of heavy weapon projectiles during the charge.

They would advance in boarding maneuvers with perfect mutual cover, rather than blindly attacking the nearest enemy.

When suppressed by heavy firepower, they would instinctively form three-person teams to set up defensive tower shields for each other.

They will work together like precisely meshed gears, and under the microsecond-level scheduling of swarm intelligence, they will bring the violent aesthetics of heavy infantry to the extreme.

They would not stop advancing on the battlefield to retrieve a single corpse.

That's much better.

This is not a beast; this is a terminator with the physique of a beast.

A cold smile slowly crept onto Lawson's lips.

He had already sketched out the picture of the next phase of the war in his mind:

The White Tiger elite's shield wall advanced with perfect tactics, while the core platoon-level suicide soldiers formed a three-layered bombardment network, and on the flanks...

Dozens, even hundreds of Oglin Death Squads, with shoulders as broad as tanks, wielding giant tower shields and muskets, launched a heavily armored charge with impeccable coordination that would send chills down the spines of any Astartes Legion.

They are meat grinders in close combat, load-bearing walls of shield walls, and steel torrents for frontal breakthroughs.

Lawson stubbed out his cigar in the white jade ashtray and stood up.

The unit type has been unlocked.

The battlefield awaits.

Nurgle's revenge has not yet arrived.

Before it arrives, Lawson's rapid troop buildup will make the entire Klein system his "first truly complete territory".

Lawson regained his composure and continued scrolling down the enhancement path for the Oglin assassins provided by the system.

The Oglin's exchange template can still be enhanced.

However, the price of this combination is shockingly high.

First physical jump (all attributes doubled): Consumes 6,000 points of subspace energy.

Second Body Leap (Double the increase in all attributes): Consumes 60,000 points of subspace energy.

Third Body Leap (All Attributes Tripled): Consumes 600,000 points of Subspace Energy.

Fourth Body Leap (All Attributes Increased Fourfold): Consumes 6,000,000 points of Subspace Energy.

Looking at the standard decimal consumption ladder, Lawson exhaled a thick puff of cigar smoke.

This is exactly the same enhancement path as the elites in Katachon.

Each jump is a massive drain on the energy of the subspace.

Lawson glanced at his account balance after completing his fifth body jump.

403 points.

The remaining four million points of subspace energy are currently only enough to upgrade the template of the Euglin Death Squad to the third jump.

However, he did not dwell on the option of a third jump, but instead focused his attention on a fourth physical jump.

A breathtaking set of virtual models unfolded on Lawson's retina.

Once the Eugenie Death Knight completes his fourth body leap, his height will reach at least 4.2 meters.

This is an exaggerated figure.

The tallest original Forged veteran among the Space Marines, when wearing Mark X power armor, is between 2.6 and 2.8 meters tall.

4.2 meters, which means that an Oglin Death Knight who has completed a fourth-order jump can easily bend down and pick up a Mark X Prototype Space Marine, carrying him on his shoulder like a lamb.

According to the square-cubic law in biology, when the size of an organism is enlarged proportionally, its surface area increases squarely, while its volume and mass increase cubically.

The height increased by 1.4 times from the basic three meters to 4.2 meters, and the increase in volume will be an unimaginable multiplier.

In addition, the system enhancement brings a fourfold reduction in muscle and bone density.

The simulation results show that this quadruple Oglin Death Soldier, which completes four jumps, will weigh an astonishing four to five tons.

Four to five tons of high-density, live flesh and blood.

This is no longer within the realm of human beings.

This is a light armored vehicle with a heartbeat and breathing.

The firepower test simulation of swarm intelligence provides clear defense data:

Their physical defenses are comparable to the frontal adamantite armor plates of Imperial Star Force light tanks.

Ordinary automatic guns and laser rifles couldn't even burn through the stratum corneum of their skin.

Even the heavy bomb guns used by Space Marines, with their massive .75 caliber explosive rounds that are powerful enough to blast a mortal in half, when they hit the high-density muscle groups of a four-times-Oglin Death Soldier, are like ordinary bullets hitting high-level body armor.

The bullet will be instantly lodged in the dense muscle fibers, and the secondary internal explosion can only blow off a piece of skin and a layer of fat, but cannot damage their internal organs and main bones.

In other words, even without wearing any armor, a Tier 4 Bear Guard can engage in a head-on firefight with a Space Marine wearing Mark VI power armor, simply by being naked.

Only the high-temperature jet of a plasma incineration cannon, the molecular-level destruction of a hot melt gun, or the continuous irradiation of a heavy laser cannon can deliver a fatal blow to them.

This is a physical miracle created by the system using high-dimensional energy.

Lawson astutely discovered another hidden function in the system interface.

Since the Euglin Death Squad does not use Lawson's own genes as an absolute template anchor, its underlying code is open.

This means that the template can be highly customized.

For example, Lawson can consume additional subspace energy to modify the fast and slow muscle ratio of muscle fibers in the template's underlying code, or adjust the mechanical structural parameters of bones.

If he were willing to pay the price, he could easily make this four- to five-ton behemoth relinquish some of its absolute strength in exchange for a faster sprint speed. Or it could sacrifice some agility for more extreme load-bearing capacity.

The more Lawson looked at the panel of this Oglin assassin, the more fanatical his eyes became.

Four times the attributes of an Oglin Warrior, it's almost too perfect.

This could absolutely become the most unshakeable heavy shield in the Lawson Death Squad, and the ultimate dagger to tear apart any defensive position.

In the future, when facing the heavily armored legions of Chaos, or even those demonic engines covered in armor plates, Lawson will no longer need to use the lives of ordinary suicide soldiers to fill the fire lines; he can directly smash these 4.2-meter-tall beasts into the enemy's positions.

Currently, Lawson still needs to gather approximately two million points of subspace energy to unlock the four-fold Oglin Warrior attribute boost.

At the current rate of slaughter in the Klein Galaxy, the entire force can be assembled within half a month.

"Connect all war zone command nodes," Lawson mentally issued the order.

In an instant, the massive computing power completed the encryption and setup of the communication line within a fraction of a millisecond.

"Increase the number of combat-type suicide soldiers from 80,000 to 120,000."

"The new 40,000 platoon-level combat suicide soldiers were all deployed to the front lines of the Klein system via the stasis field anchor point."

"Order the extermination forces on each planet to abandon the conservative tactic of advancing barrages. Shrink the firepower and increase the speed of killing the enemy. I want you to wipe out all the mutated creatures reeking of Nurgle on those seventeen planets in the shortest possible time, like harvesting wheat."

For Lawson, the Klein system was no longer a battlefield in need of rescue, but a subspace energy mine built from seventeen planets.

Following Lawson's instructions.

In the distant Klein star system, on those seventeen agricultural worlds that had already become slaughterhouses, the meat grinders were forcibly pushed to their limits.

The addition of 40,000 fresh troops brought Lawson's total military strength in the Klein system to 120,000.

On the vast plains of Klein-VII, the elite army of suicide soldiers, relying on trench defenses, suddenly launched a counter-offensive.

The three-layered shield wall of suicide soldiers advanced, followed by three thousand plasma cannons firing simultaneously. The entire corrupted plain was cleared out to a depth of more than nine hundred kilometers in a single day.

In the equatorial volcanic zone of Klein-XI, the White Tiger Squadron used living metal biplanes to achieve beyond-visual-range maneuvering, and in coordination with the pincer movement of ground forces, crushed a surviving "Rotten Blade" Chaos Warband.

In the swampy region of Klein-IV, newly arrived platoon leader-level assassins, armed with flamethrowers, transformed the entire plague-corrupted swamp into a boiling sea of ​​death.

The speed at which the Plague Legion was killed became even faster.