Sneaky Boss had discovered this problem by chance. Previously, he had been unable to draw on the energy of the Waaagh! Field over a wide area, and had assumed his avatar was too weak and that the Webway had cut off his mental power.
Now it seemed the Webway was a new world the Old Ones had created, with new laws of physics. Perhaps it also embodied their hopes for a new world.
"Save your ammo. Use your choppas! Weak Tyranids aren't worth wasting bullets on," Little Slick ordered.
That order might have meant little to other Orks. Once Orks started fighting, who cared what weapons they used? Anything that killed the enemy was a good weapon. The Special Operations Bosses were different. They were disciplined and immediately followed Little Slick's orders.
They hacked the weak, small Warrior Bugs apart with the choppas they carried, reserving their heavy weapons for the tougher, larger Warrior Bugs.
The battle continued for another half hour. The Special Operations Bosses had suffered only superficial wounds, while the Warrior Bug corpses had piled into a ring around the several hundred of them.
The Hrud seemed intent on exhausting the Special Operations Bosses to death. Unfortunately, they were bound to be disappointed. Even Slaughter Bosses, let alone Nobs, could fight for more than a month without sleep or rest. As long as Nobs had something to fight, they seemed capable of fighting forever.
After another two hours of battle, perhaps the Hrud Queen could no longer bear seeing so many valuable Warrior Bugs slaughtered so casually. She sent out an even larger, more powerful bug.
It still had the shape of a beetle, resembling a giant Stag Beetle, with a huge, sharp horn on his head. The psychic patterns on his blue carapace looked like lively