technically this is not playing with her food. She's just doing it the slow, methodically way... Which went sideways due to a single mistake
Regardless, unlike prior mission kills or mobility kills, this straight-up kill hammers the fact that Belka is not invincible to, well, the Belkans themselves. Anything can and will go wrong on the battlefield, even with overwhelming advantage and the holy blessings of the Mother Goddess on their sides. It's this catastrophic loss of a modern MBT and the entirety of its crew that General Belladonna decides that she has paid enough respect to her Erusean peer already. Any more dilly-allying around, the Reich Marshal will surely have her head, much like what she did to Admiral Tallulah.
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Modern as Belkan composite armor and anti-blast measure may be, the controllers of Belkan war machines are still very much mortal. They're as fallible as anyone else, given enough firepower. And really, even with the turret hatches closed, a Leopard MBT will still find itself decimated by the explosion of half of an artillery battery's worth of munition right next to and under it. There's literally no practical way to build a land vehicle that can withstand that much punishment, even with Magitech involved... Unless a certain Shoggoth recruits herself in the design and construction process but that kinda defeats the point.
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Literally a nightmare to fight against even with modern equpipment
Hell, the Eruseans even manage to knock out a few Belkan AFVs, with one being a complete kill, through sheer ingenuity. Remember those market stalls being rigged with booby traps? Well, a Leopard MBT proceeds to drive through some of them, not noticing the bomb-laden terrain which turns out to be a big mistake. An Erusean sapper, hiding and camouflaging himself with garbage in a drainage ditch, depresses the detonator and nearly wipes out the entire market. The big blast, created by multiple improvised explosive devices using 25-pounder shells and propellant charges, is enough to flip the Leopard MBT onto its side and is even enough to collapse a nearby house overlooking the marketplace. The crew, having left their hatch open, perishes due to overpressure and the tank's equipment is trashed alongside most of its engine block. Belkan casualties rise when soldiers, who spread out to clear the buildings around the marketplace, are affected by the blast and fragmentations as well. The Erusean sapper, the Allied hero of the day, escapes without even confirming the extent of his handiwork. The invincibility of Belkan tanks is so deeply entrenched in the sapper's mind that he thinks the explosion was only enough to knock off a track or two.
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Thanks for reading!
UmU Nice to see you love it!
Hehe, yup! Believe this or not, Ein is inspired by the Grunts from Halo. They may be fodders, but even fodders can achieve many things
freaking auto-correct man
Our entry point into Battlestar Pegasus is through one of her upper flight pods. There, the Tech-priests have opened a sizeable hole through a blast door. Politely, I thank the Tech-priests for accomplishing such menial work, having noticed that most of them are friendly or familiar faces. Afterward, I accompany the Guards in climbing heavy-duty scaffolding and steel plates that act as stairs for the Space Marines. It's only through such methods that we can ensure the steps don't break halfway when a Salamander sets foot on them. While it may come as a surprise to some, the Guards are moving in front of the formation of Sisters of Battle and Space Marines instead of vice versa. I don't really know how it usually goes in the lore materiel for the 40K universe, but out here where there are nasty surprises that may even one-shot a Space Marine? Yeah, the Guards are acting as the point man, or point unit in this case. It's always better for the Guards to trigger any ambush first before they can hit the much, much more valuable Sisters of Battle and Space Marines behind them. At least, that's how the Canadian 8th works.
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I helpfully suggest. "Clanker?"
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thanks 👍
yup, me too mate this chapter though, it might be short, but it's pretty darn colorurful
Reich Marshal of the Belkan Reich
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