The Astartes Family's Notebook

The eight warbands, including Tyrant, are also a group, but the possibility is slim.

Because the Pioneer Star was parked just outside the maximum range of its main guns, it would be easy for Eldar pirates to attack the starport and kill Tyrant and his crew, but difficult to escape. They would also be easily wiped out by the heavy bombardment of the cruisers.

Of course, Eldar pirates could also gamble that the Astartes would care about a wild starport and be reluctant to fire their cannons.

Finally, the largest and most hidden hideout was the Pioneer Star itself.

Eight of the thirty men went, but the twenty-two Space Marines, including Kaz, were still a formidable force, enough to annihilate a small Pocket Empire.

However, strength and weakness are relative. The Eldar have been fighting with humans for nearly 20,000 years. Even when facing Space Marines, they still use vulgar language like monkeys and inferior beings, which is even more offensive than the Ork's "shrimp".

They really dared to board the Pioneer Star.

Coincidentally, Motor Sich thought the same thing: you can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days.

That STC template is in the vault of the Pioneer Star; come and try it if you dare.

So the Eldar, disguised as buyers, actually came.

The human white glove, thinking he had gotten a great deal, was still smug about having the opportunity to board an Astartes strike cruiser, fantasizing that one day he would own his own ship.

However, they did not notice that the Eldar bodyguard carrying the teleportation beacon had disappeared.

As the galactic overlords before the human empire, the Eldar still have their methods.

Optical camouflage technology is several levels ahead of human technology.

After the beacon was placed, the Eldar agents patiently monitored the meaningless transaction process.

Unfortunately, Astartes is not cooperative and does not allow buyers to inspect the goods in advance.

This is a bit troublesome. If we can't just rob them outright, then we'll have to resort to force.

Unlike the Empire, where only Terminator armor can be equipped with teleportation devices, the Eldar have more flexible and unrestricted teleportation methods.

As the beacon began operating, the astronomical array on the Pioneer Star immediately detected abnormal fluctuations in spatial energy.

Warning lights flashed, and piercing sirens echoed across the ship; the traitors were no longer of any use.

Astartes wasn't the local police officer in Guterres, so he wouldn't listen to this unfortunate white-glove's stories and pleas for injustice.

Even after preparing for battle and having just had its shipwright repaired, the Pioneer Star still ran into trouble.

Due to insufficient training time, the ship's armed forces, despite being expanded, became riddled with weaknesses due to a decline in overall quality, making them unable to stop the Eldar raiders from wreaking havoc.

However, the Imperial Navy had extensive experience in boarding and counter-boarding, and these issues were fully considered in the initial design of the ships.

The passageways on the lower deck of the Pioneer Star were extremely narrow. For ordinary crew members to walk in opposite directions, one of them had to turn sideways. When Astartes was wearing armor, he couldn't even swing his arms and run.

In this situation, even if the Eldar pirates are strong in combat and have better weapons, they can only slowly traverse the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with no shortcuts to take.

They were having so much fun killing that they even had to deal with the passageway blocked by the crew's corpses themselves.

Although the situation on the upper deck was much better, allowing for more freedom in combat, the ship's armed forces could also bring out heavy weapons.

Moreover, the Eldar pirates will not only have to face mortal crew members, but also Astartes warriors.

After gathering intelligence, the ship's commander concluded that the number of attackers was around three hundred.

Three hundred people is a number that would be considered a decimal in the Empire, but it is a large number among the Eldar.

No wonder the sector navy couldn't handle it.

No wonder they dared to board the Pioneer Star.

Really...

It's been a wonderful start ever.

Although Katz chose to award his company with the embroidered shoulder armor, the veterans still trained him as a reserve sergeant and gave him the opportunity to lead a team on his own.

"Kaz, what do we do?"

Swain became battle-crazed again, urgently questioning his squad leader, Kaz.

"Draven, Darius, what do you two say?"

"I'll listen to you."

"I have no objection."

As fellow soldiers from the same cohort as Frankish III, these three were all unlucky kids who had been tormented by Kaz.

You can tell just by the name.

Becoming an Astartes means that your earthly past is no longer relevant to you, so you need to adopt a new name.

This name usually refers to ancient heroes and sages from the empire or the recruit's hometown.

Swain was the son of a serf, and being ignorant, he didn't know what name to choose. When Kars saw that he had a leg injury and was walking with a limp during the new blood trial, he told him the story of Noxus, and that's how Swain got his name.

Unlike Darius, Draven and Darius were cousins ​​from a minor noble family in Upper Nest and had received a good preschool education. However, the two brothers couldn't think of any heroes on the Frankish III who were brothers, and they were also struggling to come up with a name.

And so, the chosen one, Kaz, stepped in.

It's not a big deal. It's not a serious problem. People at Qidian Orphanage have difficulty naming their children. It's not a serious illness. It's easy to cure.

After a series of persuasive maneuvers, the three Noxian heroes reappear in the Warhammer world.

With just one more support player, Kaz's team could start playing ranked matches.

The unique environment on the ship made a four-person squad unsuitable, so the other eighteen members of the battle group formed two-person teams.

Putting four new recruits together in a team is a form of protection, but it's also a different kind of distrust.

Four Astartes, even if they're new recruits, shouldn't be able to handle guarding the adamantite gates of the vault without any mishaps.

"My advice is to wait patiently. They are Eldar pirates, robbers. They will find their way here sooner or later. Everyone take up your positions and prepare for an ambush. Do not fire without my order."

While concentrating on listening to the footsteps in the corridor, Kaz also eagerly checked the live battle reports on the tactical channel.

If your supervisor assigns you work, just do it well. The more you do, the more mistakes you'll make.

I'm calling on you, Swain.

Chapter 62 Real Childbirth, Fake Experience

You actually dared to hit me? Even my dad has never hit me.

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Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

Although the Eldar kept calling out "monkey, monkey," they never gave up tracking the footsteps of the human empire.

The galaxy of this era belongs to humanity. Whether the Eldar are happy or not, the will of the Empire can influence the Eldar's life and death.

Therefore, there are quite a few Eldar who have risen to high positions within the human government of Holy Terra.

Do you really think that the aliens appearing in the Alien House are a joke? This is just a straightforward fact.

Humanity splits into various factions due to differing ideologies, and the Eldar are no exception.

One faction advocates that the Eldar should actively integrate into the human empire.

Unfortunately, while the idea was good, the number of Eldar was too small. The Eldar outside the vassal faction committed numerous atrocities, and the small contributions the Eldar vassal faction made for humanity were barely enough to protect themselves from the Empire's wrath. Ultimately, they could not become a major force.

But humans and Eldar, who have been rivals for tens of thousands of years, are truly inseparable.

The Empire also knew the Eldar very well.

Praise be to Saint Macarius once again.

Originally, knowledge known only to the Holy Terra and the Inquisitors of the Exile Order was widely disseminated to the Astartes Chapters during the Macarian Expedition.

At least the Desolation Wings' four-man squad clearly understood that the Dark Eldar, who originated from the Comoros, were facing a population crisis.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the Dark Eldar are also using cloning to cultivate a new generation of Eldar.

However, these cloned Eldar, known as half-born children, are far less powerful than naturally born children whose parents are clearly identified.

To fight the Eldar pirates, especially the Dark Eldar raiders, you can't go wrong by chasing down and killing the True Child.

So how do you identify the true offspring among a group of indistinguishable Dark Eldar?

Hehe, let me tell you a joke first.

Human empires are called empires because all of humanity acknowledges the emperor as their supreme ruler.

In reality, the human empire has no unified political system. Holy Terra is the corporate headquarters, other planets are franchisees, and the tithe is the franchise fee. As long as you pay the franchise fee, the headquarters doesn't care whether you are a democratic republic or a feudal lord.

In contrast, on the grand interstellar stage of civilization, in Comoros, the former capital of the Eldar Empire, where the hierarchy was so rigid that even the Highlords of Holy Terra felt the Dark Eldar were too extreme.

So how do you distinguish between a half-born child and a true child? Don't look at fighting ability, look at their aura. The kind of kid who has never been beaten since childhood is definitely a true child.

Why do the Astartes, whether on the Empire's or Chaos' side, always like to switch sides?

Because switching sides really works.

In naval artillery battles, a lot of time must first be spent disabling the ship's Void Shield. Even the main guns of battleships, unless they are Nova Guns firing at close range, will take several shots to hit a frigate, which is quite laborious.

Overloading the Void Shield wasn't the end of it. The Imperial warships had thick armor and weren't afraid of armor-piercing shells. They couldn't be destroyed during the capacitor overload. Once the Void Shield recovered, they would have to do it all over again. What a hassle.

So the reason why the Imperial Navy likes to moor their ships is because this tactic works.

For ships that can be easily overpowered with main guns, the first round of attacks has already been a show of force. For those that can't be ignited, instead of continuing a passionate exchange of fire, it's better to bring the ship close to them and use the broadside cannon array for a saturation attack.

You laugh at the Empire's crude tactics, the Empire laughs at your lack of romance.

Art is Patrick Star!

With Space Marines, there are even more options.

What level are the Navy's boarding forces, and what level are the Astartes?

Given the Astartes' expertise in boarding attacks against cruisers, how could they not have tactical contingency plans for counter-boarding?

Even if your Eldar are as strong as a nimble monkey in the mountains, you should first try to build rapport with the insane automatic cannons inside the Star Pioneer.

With the deaths of a large number of armed crew members, the resistance on the Pioneer Star actually intensified.

Because the Eldar pirates also found the lower decks difficult to breach, they began to move to the upper decks.

Those guarding the upper decks were all veteran sailors who were frequently called upon for drills.

These barbarians of the Desolate Wings are trained daily with their masters as their hypothetical enemies, and are therefore entitled to use even more unscrupulous Imperial weaponry. The Eldar pirates are really dreaming if they think they can crush them with their racial attributes and weapons.

Hehehehe, hehehehe, listening to the cheerful laughter from the tactical screen, the four recruits couldn't wait to join in.

The Void Shield has the function of preventing boarding, and the Void Shield, which is directly connected to the warp, greatly interferes with the coordinate positioning of scientific and psionic methods.

So, in order to make the whole act convincing, Pioneer deliberately reduced the strength of the Void Shield outside the Starport, just in case the fish wouldn't take the bait.

Now that the Eldar pirates have really arrived, there's no need to pretend to be weak anymore. Once they're here, they're not leaving.

As the Void Shield of the Pirate Star increased in strength, the Eldar pirates' raiding ships sensed something was wrong and immediately deactivated their stealth, attempting to receive the Eldar who had boarded the ship and teleport back.

The Eldar, as long-established powers, still possess some core technologies. In the field of teleportation technology, the Eldar are truly formidable.

As long as you get close enough, even with the interference of the Void Shield, you can still bring the person back. That's impressive.

But the ship commander couldn't understand how a pirate raiding ship of the human empire's corvette class could have the audacity to approach a heavy strike cruiser of the Astartes Chapter.

It's worth noting that the Pioneer Star was converted from a Tyrant-class heavy cruiser.

What are the characteristics of the Tyrant-class heavy cruiser? It has fierce close-range and long-range firepower of the same level. Its firepower is not enough to fight against ships of the same level, but it is a first-class expert at crushing weaker ones.

Who do you take me for? Move the boat ashore!

The engine room couldn't break through the defenses, and the bridge command post was blocked by Astartes. Only then did the Eldar pirates realize they had kicked a steel plate.

But I'm not willing to just run away like this.

Having learned the location of the treasure vault from the human crew through soul-searching techniques, the idea of ​​looting and then running away replaced the impulse to burn everything.

Katz and his crew have a job.

The other members of the chapter are systematically and methodically shrinking the Eldar pirates' operational space, like a fishing net gradually being pulled in, preparing to wipe out these long-eared pirates in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, the Eldar raiders' current plan is to break into the treasure vault of the Pioneer Star and then teleport away.

That's the arrogance unique to long-lived species.

What made these Dark Eldar think that a treasure vault, such a strategically important location on a ship, would lack defensive measures?

As isolation doors were breached and automated turrets were destroyed, alarms blared incessantly, but Katz and his men remained completely unfazed.

Because the Astartes are the most powerful combat weapons of the Pioneer Star.