The same reason for choosing the Mars-class battlecruiser was the same reason Soshyan chose the relatively "mediocre" model of the Oberon-class battleship. As an ancient ship type designed during the Great Expedition era, it also inherited the popular style of the time.
The "all-round warrior" concept is equipped with a wide variety of weapons, including light spears, macro cannons and attack aircraft squadrons. The ship's weapon array is enough to cause damage to enemy ships of the same level at long distances. When used in conjunction with the light spears, it can be used in short distances.
It can severely damage a cruiser-class ship within a short period of time. At the same time, the attack aircraft it carries can directly destroy the opponent, continue to protect the mothership, and can also be sent to attack other targets. In addition, the warship also has strong self-sustainability, including
A complete resource recovery and recycling system allows warships to operate in the void for a long time.
Of course, although this kind of all-rounder battleship can be applied to any mission, it is good at everything but not good at anything. It is not as good as the heavy artillery battleship in terms of firepower and sturdiness, it is not as good as the light cruiser in terms of rapid support, and it is inferior to the capacity and command of the flight formation.
It is far inferior to professional aircraft carriers such as the Emperor class.
But it suits the Astartes very well!
In Soshiyan's imagination, after returning, the Astral Knights will no longer operate as a battle group in a short period of time. The command level needs to be tempered. The company will go out to perform tasks alone, and they can choose different tasks for different situations.
Types of ships, such as those that only suppress cultists or genestealers without obvious naval power, use strike cruisers. If there are greenskins with certain naval power, use higher-level battlecruisers. If it is
If you want to carry out key missions in relatively distant areas, then you will use Oberon-class battleships to cooperate with other battleships, while the main battleships that are not suitable for the Astartes combat style will stay on the home planet to maintain combat readiness and respond to sudden crises at any time.
Based on these thoughts, Soshyan made his choice.
The foundry general was also very happy (he thought he had killed Soshyan), and packaged it together with the ship's technicians and slave workers as gifts.
In addition, Soshyan asked the other party for 6 Goliath-class foundry ships. He knew that the Foundry General would definitely agree to him because the price he had given before was already "generous" enough.
The Goliath-class foundry ship is a light cruiser-sized ship in the Mechanicus fleet. These ships provide maintenance and repair services to capital ships, remote outposts, and merchant fleets. Although they are not small in size, their crew capacity is
It is only equivalent to a standard transport ship, but it is equipped with a large number of maintenance boats and engineering ships inside, as well as a super-large gravitational traction device, which can anchor battleship-level battleships to its side, and then use various maintenance and repairs.
Facilities to quickly repair damaged vessels.
The combat effectiveness of a fleet is not just about who has more guns, more torpedoes, and more fighter planes. Logistics support is also a very important part. This is also the reason why many battle groups have difficulty in carrying out long-term naval battle missions even though they have strong fleets. Once a ship
If it is damaged, it will easily lose its combat effectiveness, making it somewhat timid during fleet operations.
General Casting agreed to Soshyan's request without much thought.
However, it takes a certain amount of time to revive the ship's machine soul, so Soshyan and the Astral Knights also temporarily stayed in the airport of Mars, but he had no time to idle, and quickly discussed with Andal the matter of rebuilding the Tiger Claw.
Soshyan's idea was to first let the apothecary of the Astral Knights transform about a company of new recruits, and then Andal would join the Suffering Alliance as the chapter leader. Tiger Claw would then move to the Scar of Victory. Anyway, there are still people there.
There is a lot of space. Under the current circumstances, building a home planet is too conspicuous. It can only exist as a ship-based battle group first, and the equipment these Astral Knights will provide.
But just as Soshyan was planning a series of events after his return, he was startled by several sudden visitors.
"Your Highness."
When Ada, who was wearing a ranger cloak, took off her mask, Soshyan was really speechless. You must know that this is the solar system, the heart of the empire. As a result, several Eldar drove vampire lurkers and jumped out of the moon.
After that, it flew all the way to Mars, but no one discovered it in the critical period. Soshyan had to worry about the defense of the solar system.
However, this may also be related to the vehicle they use. The Vampire Lurker is a variant of the Vampire Raider, the main transport gunship in the Arkworld of Ada. It has the same long-distance void navigation capabilities as the Thunderhawk gunship, and is very fast.
It is fast and can carry thirty Ada soldiers at the same time. The vampire lurker sacrifices part of its carrying capacity to enhance its stealth performance. Although it can only transport twenty soldiers at a time, it can activate a phantom shield, which is a spiritual
The most advanced shielding device in the family, it is almost immune to all existing human detection equipment, and can also achieve complete invisibility at the visual level.
However, they were discovered after getting close to Mars, but not by Mars, but by Amnak and Li. The former asked him to meet Ada quickly to prevent them from being discovered by others, and the latter told
Soshiyang, ask him to finish the matter quickly and let these Eldar leave. Sun Watch is not just for free. It won't take long for them to find out that the Moon's Webway gate is activated - as for why there is a Webway portal on the Moon.
Soshyan didn't even find it strange anymore.
So Soshyan quickly called these Eldar to meet on the flagship.
"What happened? Who asked you to come?"
In the secret flight deck, parked was a completely black and perfectly streamlined Ada fighter jet. Soshyan, who was wearing regular clothes, looked helplessly at the Adas who were half-kneeling on the ground.
"Stop kneeling and speak quickly."
"It's Your Majesty."
"What's wrong Veronica?"
Soshiyang's voice suddenly became a little nervous.
"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong. Just...let us come and see you to see if you are okay."
"I..."
Soshiyang rubbed his head helplessly, but he knew that there was no point in getting angry with these errands, so he calmly said slowly:
"I'm fine. Tell her not to be nervous. I'll be back soon."
"Yes, Your Highness..."
"What happened in the royal court recently?"
"It's nothing big. It's just that some wanderers came, as well as some envoys from the Craftworld and the Savage Clan. Lord Doral is still reorganizing the troops recently, but there are many different voices in the council, and it doesn't seem to be going very well.
smoothly."
Obviously, Doral was also urging him to go back through these subtexts. Soshyan was silent for a moment and nodded.
"You go back and tell Mr. Doral that you need to strengthen the security of the royal court and be wary of possible enemies. Also... tell him that I got the Phoenix Holy Grail and let him investigate the function of this thing first."
Upon hearing the Phoenix Holy Grail, several Adas showed expressions of surprise and confusion, obviously they didn't know what it was.
"Okay, you go back quickly. This is the solar system and there are many eyes and ears. Once exposed, the Imperial Army will be attracted."