"But we can overwhelm the opponent with numbers, just like we did in the void, flooding Imperial Fleet with a large number of Degraded Floater. Imperium will not deploy the vehicles you mentioned on every battlefield, but we can provide Degraded Titan to every army."
"Killed by a thousand cuts!" Drau cursed again, "It sounds like we are like damn Tyranids and flooded Orks!"
Although the words are tough and disdainful, Drau knows that the huge number of Degraded Ones has indeed made outstanding contributions to Battle of Cadia. These servants without souls and flesh and blood have become the favorite things of many war gangs.
Degraded Ones has already overwhelmed the mortal Chaos servants simply by not needing maintenance and logistics, not to mention that his combat capabilities are much higher than the same number of mortal armies. As long as he overcomes his Astartes Supremacism mysophobia and doesn't mind that his battleships and bases are lifeless, guys like to ask for more Degraded Ones support from Dark Mechanicum.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Dark Mechanicum used the act of selling Degraded Ones's army to obtain an exaggerated number of living people from Chaos Warband.
These gearheads who are full of technology and metal have recently become very interested in living people, so much so that it makes Drau feel that Dark Mechanicum's top executives are a group of Emperor's Children who are counting on slaves to serve them.
The second thing Dark Mechanicum is interested in is Blackstone, but Abaddon is also very interested in this thing, Drau sometimes I think Abaddon can get the full support of Dark Mechanicum because he secretly handed over half of Cadia's mining rights to Blackstone.
This is the task of Warsmith Drau, to defend Blackstone Spire No. 7, which is the largest on Cadia and is also the easiest to mine. If possible, Drau can choose to lead an attack with its own troops to expand the results.
But Drau looked at the Imperial Army's position from a distance. It was a narrow corridor surrounded by dark walls. As long as you passed through the corridor, you would see a wide plain and countless fortresses that needed to be destroyed.
But how easy is it to pass through the corridor? The area in front of the corridor has long been processed by the Imperial Army. All kinds of heavy machinery have pressed the ground solid and flat. There is no bunker at all, and it is difficult to create a crater. Even if they count on the armored troops to cover the advance, the large troops will be overwhelmed by the dark wall. The Imperium artillerymen are so happy that they can't sleep for three days and three nights after seeing such a large mass of hard-to-move battle results.
Since it's hard to fight, just defend. Anyway, Drau is not the main attack area. Cadia's Second Continental Shelf is the real main battlefield. The six Titan Legions of Dark Mechanicum The five Titan Legions of E and Adeptus Mechanicus circle among the mountains. Every day a mountain peak is wiped off the map, and every day a new ravine appears on the surface.
Battle of Cadia is really too big. Abaddon is thinking about overwhelming them with their superior force and making a quick victory. Imperium also has the same idea and is recruiting troops with all its strength.
Eight of the 10 companies of Space Marines Chapter are deployed in the Cadia war zone, which adds up to 8,000 Space Marines. And those like Dark Angels Chapter who brought their entire parent group here with their families are even more heavyweights. Just their combined total has exceeded five figures.
Then there are the troops of Ecclesiarchy, the armed mad women of the nine fighting orders and the fanatical believers who worship Corpse Emperor. They are Praise of the Emperor all the time. Their war cry when they launch an attack can only be resisted by the gathered Noise Marines.
Not to mention the vast sea of Astra Militarum, Cadia is a fully armed fortress world, and the men, women, and children on it are all fighters against the Chaos army. This adds up to There are already 850 million soldiers, of which the most elite Cadian Shock Troops has 612 regiments. Coupled with the troops drawn from other worlds and war zones, Cadia's mortal army is likely to approach the 1 billion mark.
It sounds like there are a lot of people, but that's it. Drau once conquered a planet out of curiosity and research needs, and expelled more than 8 billion people from Hive City around the world. Although millions of people died during the expulsion, Drau did not want to let these people survive.
Neatly arranged living people were sent to a huge temporary factory to contribute their final value to the problem of Drau on the cold and precise assembly line.
Drau It took more than 150 years to knead more than 8 billion people into a huge meat ball. This work was quite difficult and complicated. Just preventing the meat balls from dehydrating during the long processing process was a big problem.
The life support Drau of these more than 8 billion people also needs to be solved, so he prepared a large number of concentration camps on the surface of the planet to ensure that the residents will not starve to death, and adjusts the amount of food from time to time to simulate other people of different sizes in society. Guess what smart people choose to commit suicide in the concentration camps, Drau's iron Flesh Hounds will naturally send fresh corpses to the filling area of the factory.
What is the final number? As soon as this question emerged, half of Drau's brain, which had been replaced by a machine, reported a number.
With 8,673,215,000 people, the population of the planet in the Drau concentration camp has been much larger in 150 years. But even with so many people, they are just a big meat ball with a diameter of one kilometer wide and a weight of only a few hundred million tons.
Drau was disappointed when he got this result. He looked at more than 8 billion people covering the entire plain and thought that the final result should be more grand.
Since then, Drau has no interest in the issue of the number of mortals. In his eyes, these things are far less real than a void cruiser.
There are many mortals, and there are also many battleships operating in Cadia Sector.
The fleet directly under Abaddon consists of two Blackstone Fortress, 7 battleships, 13 heavy cruisers, 23 cruiser squadrons and 30 frigate squadrons.
The Plague Fleet of Typhus consists of 3 battleships, 3 heavy cruisers, 7 cruiser squadrons, and 7 frigate squadrons.
The remaining warlords and champions Drau, who had titles and certificates of destruction, were too lazy to remember and only roughly counted the total number of their fleets.
Excluding Abaddon and Typhus, there are 34 other fleets. Among them, there are only more than 20 battleships worth Drau's trouble to remember. Some fleets even use Space Hulk, a combination of a tomb and a garbage dump, as their flagship.
This kind of behavior is so embarrassing, Drau asked himself whether he could do such a thing.