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Chapter 332 Fusion! The Romance of the Steel Soul!
Dr. Stan, a brilliant scientist from the Earth Federation, served as the military's research director and presided over and was responsible for many weapons development projects of the Earth Federation Army.

Because of his particular fascination with the fictional technology in anime and games, he always mixed in his own ideas during the development process, stuffing in things that originally only existed in his imagination.

For example, drills, lightsabers, rocket fists... and the most romantic thing for radish lovers, "combination"!
Dr. Stan's greatest genius lies not only in his wildly imaginative thinking, but also in his ability to bring his obsessive fictional technology to life!

This is the so-called "Earth Alliance Combined Large Mech Project"!
The key to this plan is to use transformable mechs as different weapon parts, which can be combined with specially made core parts to form large combined mechs with powerful combat capabilities, so as to achieve overwhelming battlefield dominance.

Dr. Stan not only completed it, but also provided three different core components based on battlefield adaptability—

Alpha Form: Fortress

It has the appearance of a tank and possesses powerful ground firepower and impressive defensive capabilities.

[Beta Form: Cannon]

It can hover and fly, focuses on shooting, and can traverse various complex terrains to carry out combat.

Then comes the most important part: the ultimate romance for radish lovers!
Gamma Form: Battle

The bipedal human form possesses the strongest close-combat ability among the three forms, and it is also the form that Dr. Stan has put the most effort into.

It's normal for romance to have some personal agenda involved.

However, due to the current combat structure of the Earth Federation, all the second and third generation transformable mechs that can adapt to the core parts of the combined mechs are in the Blood Armor Squad and the Chosen Squad which were "arranged" by space. In other words, only the mechs of these two squads in the entire Earth Federation can combine to fight!

No wonder they were dragged all the way back from Leia Star.

Ray, a Leia, has marveled more than once that such a concept of fusion is unimaginable to the Leia people; only Earthlings with their wealth of science fiction could be so crazy as to put it into reality...

In fact, the original game did have a combination function, but whether in the arcades of yesteryear or now with emulators readily available online, many players with past gaming experience have never triggered this function. The reason is that it has two important prerequisites.

First, you need to pick up the "communication device/radio" in advance, which is the item that drops when you break the series of glowing scout balls at the beginning of the game.

The second condition requires two or more players to play at the same time, and they must reach the end of each level to face the BOSS in order to trigger the subsequent events. Players can also use the directional keys to select from three parts: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma when airdropping fusion parts.

In the combined state, players will control the attack parts individually. However, the three-person combination is the complete form, while the two-person combination will result in the loss of some functions.

The fact that the Blood Armor Squad's mechanic brought this thing clearly indicates that the Earth Federation's higher-ups are serious about this.

This part was unfamiliar to the Chosen Ones, but very familiar to the Blood Armored Ones, who had already conducted numerous tests. Jeff, piloting the Brodia, grabbed its own "landing booster" that was being airdropped at the same time, and used the propulsion it provided to glide towards the location where the combined parts were dropped. This was an auxiliary device specifically developed for short-distance airdrops of mechs. It looked like some kind of mechanical barbell and could be separated to grab and fix the mech's shoulder.

The landing booster is equipped with a total of four large boosters and two small boosters on both sides. The large boosters have enough power to allow a heavy aircraft like the Goulding, which weighs about 10 tons, to land safely. The small boosters are responsible for fine-tuning the direction. The entire gliding process is similar to paragliding and requires some skill.

Seeing that Jeff had already taken the lead, the remaining three discussed it briefly and decided to leave Sarah White's Fawdy, which had high speed, high ammo capacity, and not low range, to continue to hold off the Octopus mechs, while the lightly armored Repatos and the extremely slow Goulding would use their landing boosters to chase after the Brodia, preparing to combine.

As for the four players in the same faction, they did not receive the treatment of combining parts, or rather, their priority in using combining parts was far lower than that of the Blood Armor Squad.

Even if we give them to them, I'm afraid they won't know how to use them!

The Fowdy continued its pincer fire, but its shells were blocked by one hexagonal barrier after another.

At this very moment, Cheng, who was inside the octopus mech Agomis, was in a state of deep inner conflict.

Logically speaking, what he needs to do now is to do everything in his power to stop the Blood Armor Squad from heading towards the fusion parts and prevent them from successfully fusion.

However, emotionally, Cheng Tian wanted to see the Blood Armor Squad, who were his enemies, successfully unite!
There's no traitor involved; I just want to see the radishes combine!
There are countless works related to the combination robot in Japan, but among those involving the trinity, the most famous is undoubtedly "Trinity Force" or "Getter Robo" which players are more familiar with.

The inspiration for Armored Warrior's trinity combination mech is very likely from Getter Robo... Of course, it's also possible that due to the limitations of technology at the time, a four-person cooperative mode could not be created, and therefore a four-person combination mech could not be made.

Similar homages aren't limited to "Armor Warrior." In the "Sea Base" route of "Contra: Hard Corps," they even created a mechanical boss called "Tagaitan Robot."

This is the kind of person who doesn't even pretend.

The three forms of the TAG Getter robot can exist independently or combine. After combining, they can transform into three different forms: air, ground, and humanoid. Players need to defeat the BOSS a total of six times to pass the corresponding level.

However, as a game that only had an arcade version, Armor Warriors had very low distribution and was a high-end product on the CP2 arcade board, which meant that it was almost impossible to find in ordinary arcades in China.

Given the money and space available, adding another machine featuring well-known games like King of Fighters, Street Fighter, or Metal Slug would obviously be a more profitable choice.

Most of the time, those who can play on a computer emulator are just playing alone on the keyboard. There aren't enough players to trigger the conditions for releasing the combination parts, which is why, even after 30 years, many veteran players in China have never seen the combination function of Armored Warrior.

In the end, Cheng Tian, ​​whose Steel Soul prevailed, did not intercept the Blood Armor Squad, allowing them to successfully rendezvous with the airdropped parts.

The Brodia, Repatos, and Goulding underwent significant shape changes and were magnetically drawn into the previously empty combined parts, while Cheng Tian's eyes brightened accordingly—

Because the combined mecha in front of him was Cheng Tian's favorite fighting specialty, Gamma form!
(End of this chapter)