Greenskin Wagered Battle Invitation

"Guilliman finally calmed down? That was faster than I expected."

"He initially said armored vehicles weren't needed, claiming they would affect the assault troops' mobility in the Greenskin Orks' underground world. I knew this guy was bound to get slapped in the face."

"He was prone to losing his temper, but at least he also came to his senses easily. He wouldn't remain controlled by his emotions forever."

Upon receiving Guilliman's distress signal, Lox immediately deployed the support forces he had prepared long ago into Skullcrusher's orbit.

This war had erupted in the underground world, a place the Greenskin Orks had excavated and transformed into an extraordinarily complex environment.

The Empire's most common vehicle units—armored personnel carriers, heavy tanks, Knight mechs, and the like—found it extremely difficult to operate across such a specialized battlefield.

Yet for Lox, this was hardly much trouble.

For battlefields with exceptionally complex terrain and exceptionally harsh conditions, the transformation technology he had brought back from the Transformers universe now had room to shine.

A support force composed of dozens of Stormbirds, Thunderhawk gunships, and Dominus armed gunships swiftly entered Skullcrusher's atmosphere.

Tengu Mechs flew escort alongside those enormous airships, looking especially tiny by comparison.

The aircraft descended with a howl. Even as they neared the planet's surface, they maintained an extremely high cruising speed, plunging toward the ground in what looked almost like suicide dives.

Just one second before impact, the gunships and aircraft abruptly pulled up their noses, broadening their windward surfaces to decelerate. They executed an incredibly thrilling maneuver resembling a Cobra maneuver.

Yet it was not pilots controlling them through those maneuvers, but the aircraft themselves.

Their cabins and frames split apart in an instant, spinning and transforming like Rubik's Cubes. By the time they touched down, they had become another peculiar