Chapter 394 Armory

Compared with the old Hellion Chariot, the Hellbat, a new unit in the Heart of the Swarm expansion, has been upgraded in 5 aspects.

One, the deformation servo system. Imperial engineers have developed a set of deformation modules consisting of complex servo systems, water cooling systems, and robot components. Through renovation, the old Hellion is allowed to switch back and forth between tank and robot modes.

Second, the improved target locking system. At first, Hellbat used the locking system in Hellion form, which could easily accidentally injure one's own soldiers. After the improvement, Hellbat's enemy tracking module was replaced by a more complicated system. The new The system can provide better target acquisition and tracking capabilities, and can enhance the situation judgment ability of the bad bat driver, thereby reducing the chance of accidental accidents.

Third, the large-scale variable-range combustion engine is actually an upgraded version of the main engine of the Hellion Chariot, which strengthens the air convection, so that it has enough energy to support the extra weight in Hellbat mode.

4. Structural changes. Hellbat uses experimental double-material steel and bonded carbide weave to protect the driver and the vehicle itself from napalm scattering with lighter, more insulating, and heat-insulating outer armor. At the same time, the ultra-high temperature also improved the explosion-proof ability of the Hellbat.

Fifth, napalm injectors. The Hellfire injectors configured on Hellfire tanks are not effective in close quarters combat, and adding a second weapon system to the heavy-duty chassis has also proved to be unfeasible. In order to To solve this problem, the ingenious Hellbat pilot added a homemade control system. In robot mode, pump polystyrene gas into the barrel of the Hellfire Injector, the gas will change the density of the plasma fuel, which greatly increases the range of flames ejected by the Hellbat in melee combat, and is effective against lightly armored targets more deadly.

In the past, the Hellfire Chariot was used as a high-speed vehicle, which was more suitable for raid operations, but. After the armory is completed, you can get structural upgrades and be able to switch between Hellion Mode/Hellbat Mode. Such changes endow it with powerful melee capabilities. Hellbats can be said to be the nightmare of light armored units.

Previously, the Hellfire Thrower's attack pattern was a straight line. In addition to the high-speed driving ability, it is very inflexible in combat. But after structural transformation, it can be called a generalist, a special soldier in a light vehicle.

Imagine how enemy mechanized infantry will feel when they see a high-speed locomotive transform into a real-life Autobot with two shields in hand and a fire-breathing head. I'm afraid it will scare the crotch.

Of course, the surprise of "Autobot" was nothing to Tang Fang. What really caught his attention was another big guy, Thor!

Thor is a huge and powerful mecha. People named this engineering mecha after Thor, the god of thunder in Norse mythology. Although it is one size smaller than the Odin prototype, it is still equipped with a powerful firepower system. With solid armor, it is the strongest and heaviest land combat machine currently used by the Imperial Army. also. Thor only needs one person to control.

Thor's core module has five parts. One, solid armor, heavy steel and ceramic composite armor protects the hulking Thor. These modular armors can be quickly replaced once damaged, and can be replaced with more targeted armor according to the battlefield situation. Thor's armor is designed to withstand high-explosive armor-piercing shells and interfere with the searing rays of energy weapons. The inner layer of the armor also has a heat-resistant kinetic mesh that can effectively resist shrapnel, metal fragments, and even destroyed armor fragments. Therefore, both the Thor body and the driver are well protected.

two. The Punisher Cannon, which is the cannon on Thor's back. Export-caliber anti-aircraft rounds can be fired with cutting-edge electronics. The shell's depleted uranium core can penetrate the protection of heavily armored air units, causing serious damage. Each shell is stored individually with basic automatic loading equipment to simplify repair and maintenance. It is worth mentioning that there is not only one Punisher artillery, but four units.

Three, the hyperbaric cockpit, Raytheon's hyperbaric cockpit is protected by military-grade tempered glass, a series of thick steel and ceramic composite armor. The core seat's inertial dampers and foam cushions protect the driver from injury. Multiple indicators and displays monitor all of Raytheon's systems. The primary holographic display projects a computer-generated image of the terrain. Should the display fail, the tempered glass assembly also incorporates a complete head-up display, navigation screen and base The target locking system is for the driver to use.

Four, Gavelin launchers, located on both sides of the cockpit are double Gavelin launchers, which can shoot 4x2 small iff fragmentation warheads at one time, penetrating the protection of multiple lightly armored air units. Due to the missile's small size, Raytheon can carry a large number of missiles of this type to deal with large groups of air targets.

Fifth, Thor's Hammer Particle Accelerator, each of Thor's arms is equipped with two Thor's Hammer Particle Accelerators, which can compress high-energy particles into clusters through a magnetic confinement mechanism, causing high-temperature melting and powerful explosion damage to the target.

If the Hellbat and the Viking fighter are a light machine gun, then Thor is a powerful artillery caliber quadruped Punisher artillery, Gafulin launcher, Thor's Hammer particle accelerator, it is basically a mobile fortress.

What is the caliber of the morning star's main gun? There are 6 rail guns on the left and right, and the Thor's Hammer, a land weapon, is actually equipped with 4 artillery pieces. Under the existing human ship system, on a planet with a general gravity coefficient, only small ships of the destroyer and frigate levels can break into low-altitude operations, and their armor is simply not enough to defend against Thor's large-caliber depleted uranium armor-piercing bombs.

For small aircraft, Raytheon also has a gavlin launcher, which can shoot 8 fragment warheads at a time. With sophisticated enemy tracking equipment, it can cause large-scale fragment splash damage, which is a powerful means to attack and interfere with fighter clusters. Besides, on the ground, there are 4 particle accelerator cannons that are a circle larger than the caliber of the Punisher artillery, let alone vehicles such as tanks and armored vehicles.

Except for the slow movement speed, this thing is a ground fortress. In the sky, there are Viking fighters that can be used as fighters and can be as high as they are. On the ground, there are Hellfire chariots that can drive at high speeds and transform into Autobots. They are equipped with a sledgehammer like Thor and supplemented by siege vehicles. Ultra-long-range fixed-point bombing of tanks. Just talk about planetary inland operations. Who is still your opponent?

Just control a person to put down the armory not far from the heavy factory, and the building will be completed in about 10 seconds. then. He switched the cursor to the heavy factory, and the two production items of Hellbat and Thor were locked from the original gray. becomes highlighted and available.

The cost of the Hellbat is the same as in the game: 100 crystals and 2 people. As for Thor, it actually needs 600 crystals, 400 gas, and occupies a population of 6. Its resource cost is twice that of the game. According to past experience, that is to say. Thor is more than 20 meters high.

Tang Fang subconsciously looked up at the ceiling, how high is this lounge? More than 3 meters, so to speak, the height of Thor is almost 10 stories... Before he crossed, he had seen the official concept map of Thor. The width and height of this thing are almost the same. What kind of concept is this? I'm afraid driving out to scare people can scare people half to death, so don't fire a cannon, just pull it out and walk around the battlefield, just wait for the opponent to raise the white flag.

Hellbats, Vikings, and Thors, if these three types of battle mechs are lined up in a row. Autobots, Gundam, Voltron. It's so tm happy.

Turning his head and scanning the Hellfire Chariot on standby in the system space, he really wanted to see how this thing would deform in reality, whether it would be as cool as Optimus Prime. But... Thinking of the size of the lounge, he could only suspend this thought. If he really wanted to let the evil bat make such a fuss, it might turn the room upside down.

Next, he counted the human race units. When he was in the Beijiao Research Institute, the ground unit was affected by the plasma cannon of the "Archangel", and the number of ground units was reduced a lot. After that, he experienced several naval battles in Rector. Now there are still:

, Machine Gunner x119. Reaper x4, Marauder x12. Firebat x8, Medic x16, Hellion Chariot x15, Siege Tank x28, Viking Fighter x48, Medical Transporter x16, Goliath Armed Robot x22, Vulture Chariot x31, Widow Thunder x4, Raven x12. The population is 580/1000.

He looked up and glanced at the resource readings, 13348445, 283434. Then he set his sights on the armory.

Compared with the offensive and defensive upgrade restrictions of Protoss and Zerg, the weapons and armor upgrades of Terran ships and chariots are much simpler. As long as there is an armory and sufficient resources, they can directly upgrade to lv3.

Emma said before that the cost of such a research project to comprehensively improve the unit's offense and defense increases by 10 times, 50 times, and 200 times.

"Upgrade tank and ship weapon level 1" and "upgrade tank and ship armor level 1" cost 1000 crystals and 1000 gas. Tang Fang didn't hesitate to press the upgrade hotkey continuously.

In about half a minute, 2 researches were completed, and then, level 2 research required 8750 crystals and 8750 gas. After thinking about it for a while, he pressed the upgrade hotkey again.

After finishing the research of "upgrade tank and ship weapon level 2" and "upgrade tank and ship armor level 2", seeing the resource consumption of 50,000 crystals and 50,000 gas, he hesitated.

Level 1 offense and defense and level 2 offense and defense have already consumed 19,500 crystals and 19,500 gas. Level 3 offense and defense cost 100,000 crystals and 100,000 gas, not to mention the infantry upgrade items in the engineering station are also unlocked. Of course, crystals don't matter, but gas...it's too heavy a burden.

Faced with such a chaotic situation in the Tianchao star area, there will definitely be a lot of wars in the future. Powerful naval combat units like Corruptors and Ravens are big gas consumers. If you have too little savings on hand, once you encounter a large-scale naval battle, it will be very uncomfortable.

"Upgrade tank and ship weapon level 3" and "upgrade tank and ship armor level 3" are too expensive, Tang Fang decided to take it easy and go to the "Babylon" free market in the future to purchase enough zero elements , it is not too late to study.

After that, switch the cursor to Engineering Station. After building the armory, the two research items "upgrade infantry weapon level 2" and "upgrade infantry armor level 2" in the engineering station will also be unlocked together, just like "upgrade tank and ship weapon/armor level 2" , also 8750 crystal and 8750 gas.

After upgrading "Infantry Weapon Level 2" and "Infantry Armor Level 2", "Infantry Weapon Level 3" and "Infantry Armor Level 3" will also be temporarily shelved. At this time, the deposit dropped from 13348445, 283434 to 13311445, 246434.

"With the current level 2 offense and defense, how much improvement will it bring to the comprehensive combat performance of human units? Well, let Emma build a model to calculate it." Thinking of this. Tang Fang turned his attention to the Star Trail Command Center.

"Emma, ​​how is the decryption work going?"

"Commander, the progress has reached 78%. It should be completed in one minute."

"One minute..." Tang Fang pondered for a while, and then ordered: "Emma. Take this opportunity to calculate the 'infantry weapon/armor lv2' and 'chariot and ship weapon/armor lv2' for human units. The coming combat power bonus."

"please wait……"

After 10 seconds, Emma came to respond. The attack and defense power of the infantry unit at level 2 is about 45% higher than that at level 1. As early as lv1, the c-14 piercer of the machine gunner can penetrate homogeneous steel, causing strong armor penetration to light vehicles Injury, after upgrading to LV2, even against some special types of light vehicles with external Chobham armor, it can still cause not weak lethality. As for defense. For example, the defense robots encountered in the Starport administrative division before can effectively resist their 23mm cannons. Of course, this is a general statement. After all, there are many types of warheads. Ma Runjia belongs to individual combat armor, and he is not a big guy like Thor. He is also helpless against certain special warheads. Such as depleted uranium core armor-piercing projectiles, tungsten-core armor-piercing projectiles, and even mixed ammunition with radionuclide and antimatter added. Likewise, the initial velocity of the bullet. Shooting distance, etc. will also have different degrees of influence.

As for the attack and defense of chariots and ships, they have also been greatly improved, after upgrading the level 2 attack and defense of Zerg aerial creatures. The Corruptor can go head-to-head with the Tigershark-class destroyer, and the Mutalisk can also cut into certain weak areas of the battleship to harass and even break through with flexible maneuverability.

And when it comes to human units, the improvement of comprehensive combat power is even stronger. After all, the upgrade items of the armory are not like distinguishing chariots from ships like in the first generation of games, but superimposed together, that is to say, they cost the same amount of money. , buy two goods.

In terms of the human race units that can be controlled at the moment. In terms of ship attack, the unit that best reflects the progress of offense and defense is the Viking fighter. "Chariot and ship weapon level lv2" endows Viking fighters with a destructive effect far exceeding that of dragons, and they are small in size. A 3-man team can easily sink a 100-meter-class frigate. As for the destroyer, according to Emma, ​​three Viking fighters fired a salvo, and the dense MT-50 Lanzel flying mines would directly destroy the structure of the ship, and its combat effectiveness was comparable to that of the Corruptor.

Of course, in terms of defense, even if the armor is upgraded, the Viking fighter can't resist the above railguns, which is not as good as the Corruptor. But as the saying goes, the ruler is shorter and the inch is longer. The flexibility of the Viking fighter is much higher than that of the Corruptor. It is comparable to a flying dragon. The shadow of the body hides, and the weapon system of the ordinary battleship wants to kill them? That is tantamount to shooting mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns. Not to mention that it can also perform ground support operations. This thing fell from the sky and turned into a land robot after rolling. The key parts can resist the humanoid Gundam of the tank's main gun. The upgraded large-caliber Gatling cannon can beat an armored vehicle like a saber-toothed tiger like a slasher. Even a heavily loaded tank can be turned into a hornet's nest.

The combat effectiveness of the flying unit has been greatly improved, and the ability upgrade of the tank cannot be ignored. Take the siege tank as an example. In the normal mode, the twin plasma turrets before the upgrade can blast away the "Single-horned Rhinoceros" main battle tank at one time. The turret, after the weapon upgrade, can almost beat the one-horned rhinoceros. In terms of defensive performance, during the defense of the Beijiao Research Institute, the "One-horned Rhinoceros" main gun could still cause some damage to the armor of the siege tank, but now, at most, it can only blow a few bomb craters, and the collapse point is concave. That's all.

"Ha, now I really hope to have a hearty ground battle." Tang Fang felt a little pity, a big and mighty Mr. like Thor, going out for a drive, so cool and handsome! , 36k pure handsome! That return rate is absolutely leveraged.

Think again about the scene where the ground trembles under its feet, and the main battle tank is crushed by a steel boot. It is so beautiful that people dare not look directly at it... Alas, it is a pity that the space of the starport "Luogia" is limited and there are too many people. ,otherwise……

"Commander, the data decryption work has been completed." Just as Tang Fang was feeling itchy, Emma's reminder sounded in his mind.

"Huh? Done? Report the situation."

"Commander, the information stored in this chip is a giant combat robot manufacturing process numbered 1a4789."

"What? A giant battle robot?" Tang Fang sat up all of a sudden, and casually took a pda on the coffee table: "Emma, ​​import the detailed information into the pda."

"Obey, Commander." As soon as Emma finished speaking, a three-legged machine appeared on the display screen of the pda. The chassis was somewhat similar to the "Poison Scythe" encountered by Crotan Star, but it was longer and wider. The feet are also different, similar to the webs of a duck. The torso is long and narrow and painted in purple. There is an oval crystal cockpit in the middle. Behind it is a turbine-shaped cooling unit. On the upper part of the torso, is Three thick metal black tentacles, the front part of the tentacles is in the posture of iron claws, three sharp thorns are arranged, and in the middle is a red rhombic crystal, which flashes at the same frequency as the ring-shaped indicator light on the cooling turbine on the back of the robot. (to be continued)