"Commendable courage, but utterly foolish."
"Human wave tactics are indeed an ancient philosophy of war. They would not become obsolete in the thirty-first millennium, nor even in the more distant future."
"It is a universal playing card that can produce good results when paired with any other card. But played alone, it is pure stupidity."
Through the scanning array, Lox saw the tide-like masses of enemies surging toward them and gave his assessment in an indifferent tone.
He found that these primitive Aeldari possessed an air entirely unlike that of the cunning Craftworld Aeldari.
There was the naive assumption that everything would go as expected, along with the simple-mindedness of knowing nothing about their enemy.
They thought that gathering an army of several million Pandora beasts would be enough to flatten humanity's forward base? In human eyes, that was an exceedingly ridiculous joke.
All it would take was a single salvo from the massive long-range artillery at the rear, followed by the suppressive fire of Thunderhawk gunships and Tengu Mechs in the sky. No number of Pandora beasts could cross that line of death.
The Pandora creatures did possess their own unique qualities. Through dissection, Lox had discovered what made them special: their skeletons were generally composed of carbon-fiber material, and their average muscle density was ten times that of a human's. That meant they were far more ferocious than most creatures humanity had encountered.
But what did that matter?
They had no way to withstand humanity's saturated long-range firepower. Steel and flame would teach these brainless beasts what a generational gap in warfare truly meant.
Even for gene-enhanced warriors created by the Emperor, such as the Space Marines, their greatest strength was not the sheer toughness of their bodies, but their battlefield survivability, adaptability, and capacity to learn.
Lox