Reencountering the Wych

All the Eldar at the defensive positions along the road had been mobilized. As they listened to reports from the personnel fighting ahead, they nervously awaited the terrifying warriors their comrades had described.

The combat power unleashed by six Thunder Warriors, along with the tactical role they displayed, was astonishing.

Gaunt led Bandis and a group of old comrades who had lived and fought together since the Unification Wars on Terra, charging forward at top speed.

After several more consecutive battles, the Thunder Warriors upgraded their defenses.

They tore off the shells and metal plating of some Dark Eldar vehicles, then, as before, used brute force to hammer them into a single piece. They threaded whatever softer materials they could find through them and hung the makeshift armor on themselves.

As for weapons, they used whatever worked. After all, anything could become a killing tool in the hands of a Thunder Warrior.

Their equipment was atrociously crude.

The Astartes, the Adeptus Custodes, and every other superhuman warrior created by the Emperor besides the Thunder Warriors would never fight with equipment so poor, but the Thunder Warriors were accustomed to it.

During the early stages of the Unification Wars on Terra, the armor worn by Thunder Warriors had literally been armor.

There were no power-assist units.

It was heavy, sluggish, lacking in iterative design, and riddled with all sorts of minor problems.

Even armor with a power unit for the upper body but none for the lower body had only appeared in the later stages of the war.

The Thunder Warriors relied entirely on their powerful bodies to bear the full weight of the armor.

To the Astartes, who used aids such as the Black Carapace to control their armor, this was inconceivable. Once its power failed, Power Armor became a