Daft's words made Sneaky Boss want to give him a good, hard smack on the head. Through the collective Waaagh! field, Sneaky Boss could clearly see the Nobs he had assigned to protect Hols.
They had all been drawn into the fighting on Octaria and had long since forgotten their guard duties. With this much Waaagh! going on, asking Orks to give up the Waaagh! to protect someone really was too much.
He could only hope Hols had merely run back to play. He would try locating him again once he turned into a Squig. The war on Octaria had reached its most critical stage, and he had no attention to spare for Hols.
When Ork IV was only five days away from Ork V, and its gravity was already causing violent tectonic shifts on both planets, the Ork Fleet led by Sneaky Boss completed its encirclement of Ork IV and the Tyranid Fleet surrounding it.
Four hundred thousand Ork ships surrounded six hundred thousand Tyranid ships and a Tyranid Battle World. The Greenskins held a considerable advantage.
The Tyranid Fleet could only huddle around Ork IV's gravity well. Without the cover provided by the extensive forests of Spore Towers on the planet, those six hundred thousand ships would not have held out for long.
Of course, the Tyranids' ability to maintain their battle line also had much to do with the four Synaptic World Devourers and one Planetary World Devourer.
When the Synaptic World Devourers gathered together, the gray energy they wove became even more solid. This energy, formed by blending the mental power of Tyranid life-forms with Warp energy, had its own distinctive properties.
Aside from warping reality to a degree and strengthening ordinary Tyranid units' offense and defense, it could also enhance the Tyranids' racial traits. First,