Chapter 1528: Battle Twenty-Five
Without any micromanagement from him at all, the Civilization War seemed to have entered its third phase.
The first phase was the landing, the second was the frontal war, and the third was a massive guerrilla war.
Just by relying on the various pieces of information on the forums, Gao Gong could imagine the scene.
Players carried faction troops as they infiltrated every route, nebula, and abandoned planet, crippling other people's information systems and attacking the enemy's mechanical units in all sorts of bizarre ways.
Of course, because they were launching small-scale attacks, they could easily be traded for, ambushed, and hunted down. Both sides entered a high-intensity hunting mode.
Gao Gong suddenly realized that players seemed perfectly suited to serve as these "guerrilla commanders."
It was not because of the Fourth Disaster's immortality, but because, as the Fourth Disaster, they possessed a communication system akin to dimensional reduction.
Virus Machines, the Faceless Ones, and the bugs were strongest at disguise, hacking, cutting off information, and manipulating information.
However, players completely countered them in these areas.
If they were unsure, they could simply go to the forums and compare passwords, or take a look at the "Thousand Ways to Avoid Scams by the Faceless Ones."
These players, who came with shared vision and hacking immunity, were guiding the faction's powerful mechanical forces into various battlefields with greater efficiency.
Besides that, more and more commander-type players were emerging. Not only were they becoming increasingly skilled at "Void Tactics" and "Dimensional Reduction Operations," they had even developed other types of tactics.
Gao Gong realized that he had somewhat underestimated these players.
Making them serve as the vanguard really was wasting their talents.
As for the "Five Masters," who had already become famous in his previous life, they had