The Astartes Family's Notebook

"More valuable than these two planets."

"Whether it's the great raider Abaddon or the venerable Great Sage, they are both willing to pay a high price to buy it back."

Trois was a very good straight man.

"Boss, can we exchange it for a battleship?"

Kaz nodded and stretched out his arm with his five fingers spread.

Can you manage with five fingers?

Row!

It has to be done!

The empire has billions of planets within its territory, but the empire's navy only has a handful of battleships.

Wow~~

They understood the logic, but the greed of the "chaos cans" was not aroused.

Brother Samar, you yourself said that you need a way to monetize your assets, and we don't have that.

Hey hey hey, who's talking to you or us? Just because you don't have it doesn't mean I, Samar, don't have it either.

Oh! ! !

“You’ve all been with me for so long, you all know what kind of person I am, so I won’t waste any more words. I, Samar, will not keep this benefit to myself.”

Understand the applause.

It is impossible to convince these chaotic traitors who have been tainted by the bad habits of the war gang with mere words.

Kars's theatrical performance was not aimed at winning people's hearts, but simply at winning over the fleet.

To speak plainly is to deceive and launch a sneak attack.

The expeditionary fleet appears to be quite large, with over eighty ships of various sizes. However, apart from the Ishimura, whose ownership certificate bears Katz's name, the other ships are the private assets of the franchisees and are only on display in the Blood Duck War Gang's cargo containers.

The Zerg fleet has really arrived. Kaz is willing to guarantee that these Chaos traitors will run away one hundred percent of the time.

We must first lure them in with benefits, and then find a suitable excuse to gain control of the ships.

When the swarm of insects actually arrives, the members of the warband, cut off from all escape routes, will fight for survival and unleash astonishing fighting spirit.

Anyway, Blackrock Fortress is a really huge thing, and even if you send out the entire fleet as tugboats, you might not be able to push it back in a short time.

So it's reasonable to only call up half of the fleet, right?

As the leader of the War Gang, Kaz's reasons were quite practical, and he seemed to have no excuse to refuse.

Let's do it that way then.

Trois was instructed to assign new recruits to guard each of the requisitioned ships, while Katz had already sent the fleet away.

Huh?

Is [Destroyer's Blade] really that arrogant, giving up the first move against the Tyranids and completely foregoing the opportunity to deplete the swarm's strength during the Void Naval Battle phase?

Sorry, but you really have to play like this to win.

Although Kaz had never fought against the Tyranids, he was very familiar with the Zerg.

The entire fleet has not a single battleship and fewer than a handful of cruisers. How can they possibly fight a void naval war against the Zerg swarm?

The war began long before the battle even started. Since we're going to execute the 1000 tactic, let's defend to the death until the final whistle. Forget about your pathetic counter-attacks; let's aim for a penalty shootout.

Screw the idea that prolonged defense inevitably leads to defeat; that just means the defenses weren't strong enough.

According to Yunlai's knowledge from his previous life, the insect hive's will has a problem: it is too utilitarian and ruthless to an appalling degree.

As long as the war gains are lower than the battlefield investment, the swarm will cut its losses in time.

He was a true Sigma hero, adhering to the principle of not incorporating sunk costs into major decisions.

It's better to move the fleet away in advance, whether it's to quickly return to support the brothers and run away if things go wrong, or to hold out until the outcome is decided and then pursue them. It's better than sending the navy to its knees at the start.

During the first Terran swarm war, Calgar commanded the Astartes, the elite of the Ultramarines' elite fleet.

In the Battle of Baal, Dante commanded the Astartes, who were blood brothers of the Holy Blood Angels, the elite of the elite.

You, Kaz Samar, bearing the title of "Blade of Annihilation," what kind of monsters and demons are you commanding?

From the very beginning, Katz never had the historical foundation of being a powerful figurehead who looked down on Tyrion.

Even if the configuration is inadequate, or even if the team is not united, these are not excuses for shirking responsibility.

Even if he is surrounded by Imperial traitors, and even if his gang members are all scum of the War Gang, Kaz will still go all out.

There's no reason why, he just wanted to win, he just had to win.

Then, the vanguard of the swarm really arrived.

Chapter 468 First Experience of Love

If the pursuit of justice does not receive collective support, then the sanctity of an individual's revenge should not be questioned.

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Something seems... off.

Good heavens, where did this come from? Is this still the human empire? Is this really the Great Devourer?

The iconic bio-ship does look quite similar, but...

The Zerg vanguard...

Which Zerg race is that?!

The Celestial Venerable almost laughed until his stomach hurt. Serves you right, the cheat code has already been given to you. If you had just asked the Demon Dormitory more, would things be like this now?

The Supreme God never issues missions that are destined to result in certain death. The Five Giants sent Kars to settle things, not to send him to his death. Why would they go to such lengths to kill such an ordinary Astartes?

Here, I have to mention the Hive Will trait.

As extraterrestrial life forms, the Tyranids do not actually have a fixed form.

Anyone who has played Spore and League of Legends knows that adaptability is the most valuable attribute among the stars.

Coincidentally, the Tyranids are indeed a remarkable species with a high degree of evolutionary adaptability.

Large in size but weak at the gate, with many hairs and weak to fire, the Zerg hive's will can always strategically produce targeted Zerg individuals to deal with complex and ever-changing battlefield situations.

This is the fundamental reason why the Hive Will sends out a vanguard to test the waters before the main tentacle fleet arrives.

The term "fake deep space exploration" refers to Kaz's research team; real deep space exploration should be done like the Tyranids.

So when tens of thousands of Terran bio-ships, which had absolutely nothing to do with Kass's previous CG animation, arrived at the outer edge of the star system, Kass was bewildered.

What the hell is all this? Kars has never seen these biological ships before. Is our intelligence failing? Will we mess this up?

Wait, that's not right, it's a narwhal beetle ship, I know this girl!

Let me tell you about a CG production company that messed things up.

The narwhal worm is a special ship responsible for detecting and guiding the worm hive fleet to perform faster-than-light jumps. It has single-fiber spikes on its head to sense gravity signals.

Yes, it's that thing that often appears in various animated CGs and looks a lot like a narwhal. Essentially, it's a ship similar to an icebreaker, whose main purpose is to break through "gravity ice floes," rather than using its sensory organs as rams to engage in ramming duels with the Empire's thick-skinned standard warships.

The Tyranid vanguard, having just suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the hospitable demons and monsters of the Infernal Galaxy in the Hazy Starfield, was actually quite bewildered. The entire fleet was in a period of transformational uncertainty, unsure of how to carry out specialized transformations or what traits to select from the gene pool to target the local species of the galaxy.

But it doesn't matter, the Great Devourer is a large and powerful entity, let's try fighting it out first.

In other words, given the strength of the expeditionary fleet, if they were to engage in a first-strike kill, they would be able to tear a chunk of flesh from the Tyranid vanguard biological fleet.

However, Katz voluntarily gave up the opening lightning strike.

Regret?

How could that be? Our cause is just, justice will prevail, and heroes have no regrets.

The Zerg vanguard also rightfully committed the sin of arrogance.

Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit. Kaz's conservatism, by a twist of fate, led the Hive Will branch, which commanded the Zerg vanguard, to decide to split its forces.

Why would the entire vanguard be stranded in a mere star system?

Divide your forces, you must divide your forces. Once you've mastered the operation of the Great Devourer, F2A is the correct tactical operation. Just A over and you're done.

Thus, the war reached a fever pitch from the very first day.

The sky was filled with spore drop pods, which, despite the ground-based anti-aircraft fire, delivered a large number of small Tyranid creatures to the planet's surface.

What awaited them was a main-planet fortified city cluster, which was already showing initial results thanks to Kaz's full-fledged efforts.

The human forces have made a good start.

Under the barrage of heavy firepower, the first wave of Terran biological units landing on the planet's surface were a perfect replica of the Allied paratroopers in Operation Market Garden. How heartwarming! This mission to deliver warmth is truly heartwarming.

However, as news of victory poured in like snowflakes to Kaz, Lord Nakado did not feel the slightest bit of satisfaction or resentment.

It's true that winning is winning and the victor shouldn't be blamed.

But the battle losses don't look right.

Where are the promised knife-like insects, gun-like insects, snake-like insects, and gargoyles?

Where have those iconic bio-weapons and those most basic Terran units gone?

Kaz personally examined the recovered Zerg samples, and these things were completely different from the Tyranids he remembered.

If Kars hadn't recognized the narwhal beetle ship, he would have started to wonder what he was fighting.

Why don't you go ask the devil's dormitory on the Ishimura?

The Celestial Venerable really wanted to slap that stubborn brat Kars on behalf of the Emperor; he was worried for him.

No, not at all.

Kaz is incredibly stubborn; he'd rather believe the game version is faulty than that his prediction is wrong.

This must be a conspiracy by the Tyranids!

Yes, that must be it.

Um, is it possible that the vanguard's role is exactly this? The Hive's will sends out suicide squads to collect the racial traits of the galaxy's native races, so as to carry out targeted biological evolution before the main force arrives?

If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move either.

After the Zerg bio-ships completely wiped out humanity's orbital defense system, a larger-scale spore sac drop began.

This airdrop has truly plunged Katz into uncharted territory.

Am I really not fighting the Zerg?

Will a Queen of Blades spawn in the wild...?

The main reason Kaz had this suspicion was that most of the Zerg units released from the spore sac this time were small, quadrupedal wild units.

Yes, a springtail.

Here I have to criticize our great strategist for being terrible at biology.

From a biological perspective, quadrupedalism is the way of the world, while bipedalism is heresy.

Unsurprisingly, this round of airdrops also failed to achieve any results, and the humans defended against it again.

However, the Terran Zerg did not care about any loss of troops. In the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds, as long as the troops dropped in the previous round were almost wiped out, a new round of airdrops would be carried out immediately.

Even though supplies had been stockpiled more than a year in advance, the ammunition reserves in various fortresses were still being rapidly depleted at a visible rate due to the high intensity and continuous consumption by the swarms of insects.

Regardless of the Zerg, the essence of their warfare is purely about overwhelming others with their own resources.

But Katz didn't panic.

This was all within his expectations. If these Zerg aliens thought that this level of consumption could bring humanity down, then they were taking Imperial technology far too lightly.

The vast underground transportation network is a crucial support for the propulsion of the main star's fortress.

Although the empire's technology is abstract, it is not primitive.

The Hong Train System can be built in any legitimate forging world.

Although Zhao Akada is highly suspected of being a heretic, in terms of identity, he is indeed a legitimate member of the Imperial Forging World, officially certified by Holy Terra.

So even before Katz had fully taken control of the governor's mansion, he had already used bribery to get local oil makers to start expanding the underground rail transport network.