Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 754

Shadows of the Past

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As the collisions occurred, the war grew increasingly terrifying.

Faced with hostile targets embedded deeply in friendly units, the Sautekh Dynasty's World Engines had no choice but to abandon their immensely powerful gauss projectile cannons.

Weapons that powerful could easily destroy their own units along with the enemy.

Although the Dynasty had plenty of World Engines in reserve, that did not mean they could accept such losses.

The Tomb Ship fleet began attempting to attack the Titan Ships lodged in the World Engines from behind, hoping to destroy these enemies as quickly as possible.

But they faced a rather troublesome problem.

Titan Ships were called ships because they retained the form of a vessel.

Their elongated hulls meant that every exposed facing had weapons positioned along it.

Although their sterns carried no weapons, their enormous exhaust nozzles had never stopped firing.

The terrifying streams of energy they expelled rendered ordinary attacks completely ineffective.

Apart from the stern exhausts, every other section was covered in heavy armor several kilometers thick, which even Cairn-class Tomb Ships struggled to penetrate directly.

Although the collisions had inflicted considerable damage on the Titan Ships' hulls, their massive hull shield systems used a distributed, multipoint arrangement.

Even after crashing into the World Engines, their powerful shields still covered two-thirds of their hulls as long as their energy supplies held out.

Moreover, as time passed, nano-swarms repaired more and more damaged components, and their shield strength actually began to rise again.

Unlike the Necrons, who fought under constant constraints.

The Men of Iron completely disregarded every risk of battle.

Although the Titan Ships' Doomsday Weapons had been damaged.

The other weapons scattered across their hulls remained fully operational.

Anti-ship missiles poured from the Titan Ships' hulls, blanketing both the World Engines pinned against them and the hull

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