StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Before June 20, Augustus's Warfield First Company performed quite boring tasks. For two days, they stayed in the military camp for training, and the rest of the time they were transferred to escort the troops from Pork. Supplies from Proud Star Port.

For an entire week, Augustus's class followed container trucks around the Beltway.

At this time, more than a week had passed since Augustus was promoted to lance sergeant and temporarily acted as the squad leader of the first squad of the third platoon. The Ministry of Military Affairs has not yet assigned a noncommissioned officer to serve as the squad leader, so he is still the acting squad leader to this day. As far as Augustus knew, the other recruit squad leaders who came to the first company were now veterans of the first company.

Augustus soon realized that until he was promoted to corporal and became the official squad leader, a new successor might never arrive.

While escorting the supplies, Augustus was always on guard against surprise attacks from the enemy, although no attacks from the Caimorians ever occurred.

The daily lives of Augustus and others are the same. From the moment they open their eyes in the morning, they have to put on power armor and board a troop carrier. Marines then spend most of the day in armored vehicles.

During this period of time, Bok's Pride was in a sparse and ordinary calm. The troops of the Kemorian and the Tyranid Federation were still facing each other at the Partik River in the city center, but the frontline garrison did not fire a single shot. Only the artillery units of both sides would fire at the enemy positions regularly, and the buildings and fortifications within the firing range had already been razed to the ground.

In the past year, there has never been a large-scale battle involving more than ten thousand people on Turasis II. Both sides each occupy half of the planet's land, and they seem to be satisfied with this.

However, Augustus knew that this delicate balance was like thin ice hanging on a candle, and sooner or later it would be broken by one of the parties.

What Augustus is most worried about right now is that if both sides regard Poker's Pride as a breakthrough point, the 33rd Ground Assault Division at the center of the war will face a brutal war.

Perhaps the task of escorting a transport convoy to transport supplies had made a group of young and energetic recruits tired. Therefore, on the morning of June 20, when Lieutenant Reagan, the leader of the third platoon, told them that the first company they were in When he was about to go to a small town called Loen to perform a combat mission. Everyone started cheering except Augustus and Omo.

Lieutenant Reagan could only sigh at this. The first battle Augustus led these new recruits to win was so easy that they still did not regard the war as a serious matter.

Perhaps only after witnessing the death of their comrades, and after their relatives, friends and comrades leave them forever, can they become mature.

At nearly noon that day, Augustus led the first squad into the barracks where the giant wolf emblem was engraved on the wall.

This was the first time they used the power armor of the 33rd Ground Assault Division. Since this unit had previously served in the ice-covered Silver World Sigma, their armor's surface coating was also silver-gray in keeping with the environment.

Like the others' power armor, Augustus's armor had a prostrate gray wolf on its breastplate.

This set of power armor is still the old CMC-200, and some traces of use can be seen inside, but overall it is still much better than those in the boot camp.

According to the newly issued "Supplement to the First-level Weapons Management Regulations of the 33rd Ground Assault Division Class", each member of the Augustus Class also received an additional Gauss rifle with a grenade launcher.

In addition, the supply sergeant at the armory also issued them an additional Hellfire flamethrower and a matching parallel double-barrel liquid tank, a pair of brand new CMC-230-XF heavy power armor, a seven feet long one-man rocket launcher and two large bundles of rockets, and several people were assigned a Whisperer heavy machine gun and four boxes of ammunition boxes filled with bullet chains.

Augustus noticed that all squads of Warfield's company, including the medics, had completed re-equipment. Obviously, the upper-level commanders of the 33rd Ground Assault Division intended to reorganize the entire first company into the main assault company.

Warfield's company has always been known as the Iron Company, always charging at the front, and often loses more than half of its troops after several fierce battles.

It is understandable that the first company should receive such an honor. Even other brother companies think they deserve better equipment, because it also means that the battalion commander has more reason to deploy them in the most dangerous places instead of others. people.

Although these weapons should be legally held by professional sergeants who have received professional training, it is obviously unrealistic to dismantle a full combat squad and send a group of people to receive training during wartime.

After discussing with Renault, Augustus decided to hand over the rocket launcher to Ward and the heavy machine gun to the tall Benjamin, while Omo carried the ammunition box and acted as his deputy.

The flamethrower was given to Harnack simply because, according to Harnak himself, he had loved playing with fire as a child, and no one else happened to want to use such a dangerous and difficult-to-operate weapon.

Then Augustus divided the squad into three firepower groups, each with Hanak and others as the core, who had replaced the new equipment. Augustus led the first team, which consisted of machine gunner Benjamin Crandall, deputy Tom Omo, rifleman Curt Josephine and sniper Rick Kidd.

The second group is led by Raynor, and consists of flamethrower Harnak Hank, riflemen Ilya Kurovsky and Amy Brandon. The third group was led by Alander Lundstein and consisted of rocketeer Conor Ward, grenadier Zander Marks and Lee Patchinyan.

"Augustus, I see, we are still short of a medic." After the weapons were distributed, Renault said to Augustus.

"Our personnel and weapons are already very close to a standard 'Special Tactics and Mission Team', just be satisfied." Augustus's face glowed: "Usually we call these special teams the elite. Elites, no matter what, these good things can't be passed on to recruits who have only been in the army for a few months."

"Sooner or later we will become the best of the best," Leno said.

By the time the first group of Marines put on new equipment and boarded an APOD-46 transport aircraft, Augustus believed that they were all brand new.

Harnak has changed the most. The CMC-230-XF power armor he is now wearing is the famous Firebat armor. This power armor was developed and launched by Proxion Industrial Group.

Compared with other models from CMC-200 to CMC-300, the Firebat Power Armor uses thicker and stronger stainless steel armor. The armor surface has a special heat-resistant coating to withstand the fire released by the Hellfire Flamethrower. The hot high-temperature ion flow.

The additional stainless steel shields and heat insulation layers make the Firebat armor heavier and larger than ordinary power armor. The crimson full-body paint also makes the Firebat look more dangerous. The chest and crotch armor have various insignias of Proxion Industrial Group and the 33rd Ground Assault Division.

The Firebat armor of the 33rd Ground Assault Division was repainted silver gray, looking like a large silver giant.

After some additional modifications to Ward's power armor, the armor plates on his shoulders were replaced with a larger and flatter model for mounting fixed straight rocket launchers.

A more accurate HUD missile sighting eyepiece was installed on his helmet visor. An armed belt with twelve self-aiming rockets and sharp military spikes were tied around Ward's waist.

As the transport was en route to its destination, Augustus used the HUD display on his power armor shield to review the mission briefing.

The latest mission briefing showed that their destination, the small town of Roen, was fifteen miles away from the central city of Pork Pride. Before the outbreak of the war, the permanent population was about 5,000, but now it has shrunk to 2,000.

This town is still under the control of the Tyranid Federation Army, but that area is located downstream of the Padick River that flows through the city of Bok's Pride, and only one Federation Army battalion is stationed there.

The Army battalion simply cannot monitor the defense depth of more than ten miles wide in real time, so Camorian scout troops often enter the federal-controlled area through the Partik River.

The briefing described the mission very briefly—according to reliable intelligence, the town named Loen had surrendered to Kaimorian. The mission of Warfield Company is to regain control of the town and execute all the townspeople.

Seeing this, Augustus couldn't help but open his eyes.

Yes, execution rather than arrest.