During the First Latverian Expansion War, an average of three hundred Hellfire Knights had been assigned to each Southeast European country.
Those three hundred Hellfire Knights had to divide their efforts between assaulting several military bases, wiping out urban resistance forces, and even mountain guerrillas. Even so, they had still presented the Emperor with the crown of victory within the allotted time, and the Emperor had been generous with his praise and honor. Now, more than seven hundred warriors had been deployed for this Wakandan civil war. Malcolm felt that was simply too many. The Hellfire Knights packed into ten Pegasus Type Assault Transports could have conquered all of Wakanda, not merely the capital, Golden City.
There were still some resistance forces during the opening stages of the war. To swiftly eliminate those fire points, ammunition and fuel transported from Sky Sword Space Station were being consumed at a rapid pace. This did not even include the ammunition and fuel consumed by the mortal troops of the Fimbulwinter First Secret Regiment when they later entered the city to carry out suppression operations. That army, which belonged to the Intelligence Department, possessed its own independent logistics system. Even setting aside the Fimbulwinter First Secret Regiment, whose bizarre methods clearly indicated they were secretly conducting espionage missions, Legion Commander Malcolm found himself with something of a headache after reviewing the data fed back by the command Armored Personnel Carrier.
He believed the Hellfire Knights had not prepared thoroughly enough for this war.
If all the fully armed Hellfire Knights carried in half the Pegasus Type Assault Transports, along with a heavy Armored Personnel Carrier in their cargo holds, had been replaced with ammunition and fuel, they could still have taken Golden City before dawn the next day. The Hellfire Knights were practitioners