The Astartes Family's Notebook

This company has absolutely no Astartesian baggage. Although the Raptor Chapter also violated the Astartes Codex in its company building and tactical organization, the Big Eagles are a standard Codex chapter in terms of organizational structure and chapter ideology.

In contrast, the four-part combo of the Desolate Wings, aside from its superficial appearance, has absolutely nothing to do with the Astartes Codex.

However, the 4th Company's organizational structure clearly resembles that of the Raven Guard, most likely copied from the Raptor Chapter. Seifert couldn't say anything, as he couldn't very well criticize his own chapter as well.

Even though the Raptor Regiment's companies were divided into squads, there was still a clear hierarchical relationship, with squad leaders and sergeants responsible for specific individuals.

The Wasteland Wings, on the other hand, completely dismantled the squad structure, leading to rampant factionalism within the company. The leading sergeants relied entirely on personal connections and charisma to build cliques, while the rank-and-file soldiers earned their places in the unit solely through individual performance.

Without a thorough understanding, the first impression of this company is that it is the epitome of chaos and disorder.

However, after three years of living, eating, drinking, and training together, Sifus's thoughts had quietly changed.

The four consecutive attacks by the Wings of Desolation weren't as bad as they seemed.

In the Fourth Company of Astartes, the soldiers were exceptionally enthusiastic about training in order to secure mission slots, pushing the intensity of their training to the limit. The sergeants were also outstanding, because company rules stipulated that soldiers could refuse a sergeant's "recruitment" unless ordered by the company commander.

Therefore, in order to "get a call and everyone will respond", the sergeants of the Fourth Company never keep anything to themselves. They are willing to share any good things or new discoveries they make, showing the demeanor of an elder brother.

Otherwise, if the company commander issues several forceful orders, the sergeant's prestige will be completely destroyed.

Being brothers with the Astartes of the Fourth Company is really comfortable.

However, personal feelings did not affect Sifus's subjective judgment; the entire Fourth Company should be sent to the Death Watch to receive re-education through the Astartes Codex.

On the other hand, Siforth was a competent Astartes; even though Company Commander Jesforth didn't care, he wouldn't meddle and ruin the friendly relations between the branches.

So when Katz asked him for tips on stealth techniques, Seifert shared all his knowledge with him.

"It's hopeless, you can't teach it, just give up."

The offspring of the Raven King all possess ancestral skills, which goes beyond mere talent. The Raptor Squadron has a complete set of tactical plans that combine theory and practice for infiltration operations, which can be referenced and learned from.

However, someone like Katz is someone Sefors really can't teach.

It's not a matter of talent or not. The Kaz brothers are extremely talented, but their tactical style isn't a matter of whether it's formed or not; it's that it's completely solidified.

To put it bluntly, the Katz brothers are incompatible with stealth tactics.

When people try to sneak around, their priority is to avoid being detected. From physical coordination to the configuration of their power armor, everything is geared towards these two tactical objectives: to be silent, invisible, and to move quickly.

But Katz is different; every bone and every muscle in his body is prepared to kill his enemies.

To use an imperfect analogy, when a typical Astartes fails to stealth, the first reaction is to smoke and hide, look for cover and assess the situation, inevitably feeling annoyed at how they were discovered and how careless they were.

But Kaz was different. His first reaction to the failed stealth was, "Since that's the case, I won't pretend to be a gentleman anymore. Sword, come on! Leave no survivors!!!"

How can you possibly conduct a secret infiltration with this bastard? This guy is a berserker.

However, when you're in a gang, there are times when you're not in control of your own destiny. When the person in charge assigns you tasks, can you really complain?

The Fifth Company is the Fifth Company of the Raptors, not the Fourth Company of the Wasteland Wings. Company Commander Yesfor arranged for Sifors to join Kaz's squad to enhance their reconnaissance capabilities. What could Sifors say? Was he going to quit?

"Heh heh, Seifert brothers, how much of my stealth technique have you mastered?"

I'd be so grateful if you didn't tell anyone that I taught you this.

"It's good, it's good."

I think your ball control is like Henry's.

The Shadow of Death faction realized that launching a proactive attack was not advisable due to the heavy losses, so they changed their strategy and proactively withdrew their forces to defend the No. 1 Nest City.

Thus, the Desolate Wings and the Raptor Legion finally gained the initiative on the battlefield and began preliminary tactical preparations for taking down the tough first hive city.

Katz led a tactical squad, consisting of Sifus and four other combat brothers from the Fourth Company, to a Thunderhawk gunboat to conduct fire reconnaissance of an affiliated factory area 200 kilometers southwest of the First Nest City.

Although Kaz was confident and eager to put his intensively trained stealth skills to the test, Seifer had a strong premonition that an encounter was inevitable, so the big-headed eagle prepared two extra bombs.

Damn, the Desolate Wings' four-company is really rich. The bomb application is just a formality. They just write a report and they approve it.

Chapter 112 Sewers and Fish

Do not search for mermaids in the sewers out of curiosity. Remember, remember, remember.

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Katz has a strong learning ability; he has mastered all the stealth techniques that Sephiroth taught him.

However, Sifus still believed that Katz did not have the talent for stealth.

This is a judgment based on intuition.

Even if Katz walks on tiptoe, he doesn't look like Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street, who specializes in power claws. He looks more like Jason Voorhees, the immortal baseball batter from Crystal Lake.

While others flank from behind to find an opportunity for a chokehold, backstab, or kidney strike, Kaz flanks from behind simply to find the right angle to cleave them in two.

Although a thousand words were welling up in his throat, Sifus remained silent.

This time, it wasn't because the crow king's offspring was inarticulate, but because he didn't know what to say.

Oh well, as long as you're happy.

The governors of Skold throughout history have all been nouveau riche, and despite being a mining world, they place great emphasis on environmental protection.

So they specially installed several pipelines to transport the waste from the nest to a place 200 kilometers away for processing.

The Mechanics Cult is not some public-spirited, philanthropic bunch. Since the nobles of the Nest City can't stand seeing the poor suffer, the mechanics who are paid to do things naturally won't ask any questions about security vulnerabilities.

Katz and his tactical squad came to this factory area to see if it was possible to use these pipelines to enter Hive One and launch a surprise attack.

Unfortunately, what the Desolation Wings Chapter wanted, the Death Shadows Chapter also wanted.

The ambush had been prepared long ago.

The only surprise was that the Chaos Astartes never imagined that some Astartes with nothing better to do would research how to wear power armor to fight Terminator armor.

Sergeant Tyrant, you're in luck!

"Kaz, remember this: in confined spaces, if you encounter a Terminator Armor, run or retreat as needed. Don't fantasize about the Emperor's intervention. The defensive gap is too large; you have no chance of winning. The field shield completely suppresses ranged attacks, and the Terminator Armor's built-in servo motors and enhanced electronic muscle bundles have a higher power output than the power armor, making it ineffective in close combat as well."

So, as long as there is open space and room to maneuver, the Terminator A's clumsy weakness will be magnified, right?

Hehehehe......

In order to outmaneuver Ingus, Tyrant spent decades researching how to fight heavy armor with light armor. When he encountered Kars, an Astartes of the same type who understood the tricks immediately, he naturally didn't hold back on these techniques and even took the initiative to put on his Terminator armor and teach him everything he knew.

Kaz has actually practiced.

Upon entering the factory, the Chaos Astartes immediately locked the gates, attempting to force the Imperial Astartes to scatter and flee, then defeat them one by one.

Unfortunately, Kars wasn't a normal person. When he encountered Nurgle the Plague Pig wearing Terminator armor, instead of avoiding the fray, he took the initiative to meet him head-on.

While providing cover for Kaz and suppressing the other Chaos traitors, Sifus shouted for a retreat over the communication channel.

But the Astartes of the Fourth Company completely ignored him; the only sounds on the communication channel were strange, intermittent chuckles.

what's the situation?

Sifus discovered that only two of the Desolate Wings Astartes had chosen to take cover and fire from the same position as him; the other two had disappeared, and Kaz was making probing attacks around the Chaos Terminator.

Terminator A's power is no joke; if you get hit by one punch, Kars' head can sink into his chest cavity.

However, having great strength and momentum naturally means that changing tactics is difficult.

Tyrant wasn't the only one who generously shared his knowledge with Katz; Ingus did too.

Using body language for tactical deception was one of Ingus's specialties.

With a quick, abrupt stop, the Chaos Terminator, wielding a chainsaw sword, missed its target.

Then he wouldn't hold back. Kaz didn't aim for a fatal blow. It was his first time encountering these stinking canned Chaos creatures, and he didn't know how strong their vitality was. He didn't dare gamble on whether a mere fatal wound could kill these Chaos traitors.

So it will take some effort to dismantle this thing.

The power sword in his hand pierced through the force field shield with a thrusting motion, damaging the energy lines of Stinky Can's power backpack.

Without hesitation, Kaz took two steps back, not wanting to greedily inflict damage with the execution.

"Kaz, the power backpacks of ordinary power armors can be connected via a hidden interface in the middle of the magnetic lock, but the Terminator armor cannot. High output means high energy consumption, and a single interface is simply not enough, so the power backpacks used by the Terminator armor mostly have other external pipeline connectors."

Kaz kept Tyrant's teachings in mind. Although the matter of you being Sephiroth's swordsmanship teacher wasn't over yet, he still had to listen carefully.

First soften the armor, then break it. After destroying the target area, press the weak point and continue to break it.

Sifus, who was suppressing the Chaos traitor for Kaz, was somewhat stunned.

Are the Astartes brothers of the Wasteland all monsters?

Whether Kars is a monster is debatable, but Nurgle's apostles are all monsters.

The Death Shadows Warband's paint scheme is quite unconventional within the Nurgle faction.

Compared to the greenish-brown offspring of Primarch Mortalian, the power armor under the pure black paint of Shadow of Death exhibits a lower degree of alienation and lacks the typical Nurgle Warband's scatological style.

But this doesn't mean Nurgle would blame Astartes of the Shadow of Death Warband for such a small matter; the Father is generous and never withholds the blessings that are due.

Therefore, this Chaos Terminator is really hard to kill. The power backpack leaking electricity only affects the force field shield, not the Terminator armor itself, let alone the powerful body blessed by Nurgle.

Unfortunately, Katz was not an uneducated recruit. He was the youngest sergeant to stand out in the Fourth Company, where internal strife was more severe than external enemies. He was also the apprentice of Tyrant, a master of dismantling Terminator armor.

Do you think I'd fall for your trick?

Kaz laughed.

Pretend to be clumsy, trick yourself into going forward, and then suddenly launch an attack, right?

Your next move is to move your left foot 10 centimeters to the side, lean your body forward 3 degrees, and face me diagonally with your right shoulder blade.

As Kaz predicted the Chaos Terminator's moves over the communication channel, Sifus had only one thought in his mind: How are you so skilled?

However, Siphus suddenly realized that something was wrong; he had actually lost focus, even on the battlefield!

No, that's not right. It wasn't that I was distracted; it was that the Chaos Traitor's suppressive firepower disappeared.

Could it be...

It was that Mo Fei. The two missing fourth-line combat brothers had already completed the honor kill. Although it was dangerous, close combat was indeed a highly efficient tactical choice for Astartes in battle.

For the Raptor Chapter, victory is glory, and in order to achieve it, they will choose tactics that are not so honorable in the eyes of many other chapters.

For the Wings of Desolation, only victory brings glory; without victory, there is no glory. If you can't win, don't spout nonsense about trying your best.

Kars had no obsession with killing Nurgle, the Plague Overlord; all he cared about was the death of his enemies.

So when the gunshots rang out again, the Chaos Terminator, who had been restrained by Kaz's close-quarters combat, finally realized that these lackeys of the Corpse King had no sense of martial ethics.

Five bomb guns firing at once, even a Terminator armor couldn't withstand that.

Kaz kept firing until his arm broke and he was on his knees before signaling to his comrades, who were carrying molten metal bombs, to hand him their weapons.

"The Corpse King's departure..."

Even with the power sword piercing its mouth, this kind of damage didn't end the plague pig's life. The followers of Nurgle really know how to survive.

However, Kars is a staunch materialist God-Emperor warrior and has no interest in studying the grueling work of the warp.

If you have any complaints, go tell His Majesty the Divine Emperor's Loyalty Melt Bomb.

With a kick, Kaz knocked the kneeling Chaos Terminator to the ground, tore a gash in his upper abdomen with his power sword and magnetic boots, set the explosion timer, and brute forcefully shoved it in.

After taking two steps, Kaz felt uneasy and retreated, firing three shots diagonally at the helmet, completely shattering the Chaos Traitor's head and tearing his ribcage and spine to shreds with the explosives.

Then, the six loyalist Astartes, having regrouped, reassembled into battle formation and continued their reconnaissance mission deep into the factory area.

BOOM!

A real man never looks back at an explosion.

Chapter 113 Blindly Eating Fish

No matter how many routes you come from, I will only take one.

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The Shadow of Death's ambush troops died from overthinking.

According to the plans of these Chaos traitors, the Corpse King's lackeys, having their escape routes cut off, would scatter and flee when they encountered the invincible Withering Overlord, thus falling into the trap set by the War Gang.

This will be a resounding and exhilarating victory.

So even though ten Chaos Astartes came, why did the Shadow of Death Warband insist on forming a 3-3-2-2 formation?

If ten people honestly surround the Wither Overlord and use the "1000" tactic, by this time next year, the grass on Kaz's grave will be covered with Nurgle Spirits.