Chapter 43: Equal Rivals
Most of the living ships of the Sarnagar fleet use long-range energy-based weapons, which are highly destructive and highly accurate, making them the best choice for long-range and ultra-long-range firefights.
However, in mid- and close-range engagements, the weaknesses of the biohulls using energy weapons will be exposed to the greatest extent, because most of the biohulls are not as large as the mechanical hulls, so they will have the weakness of long energy storage time and long cooldown period when using energy weapons.
In fact, Abbather is not without the ability to design a swarm warship that completely uses energy weapons as the main means of attack, but as it says, the effect of using energy weapons on biomorph warships is actually far less good than directly using biological weapons.
Because the organism must have a premise for the use of energy, that is, the body must have an organ that reserves energy, and the energy in this energy storage organ is not like the energy of the laser cannon crew of a human battlecruiser, which can solve the endurance problem by simply "changing the battery", which means that every time the energy weapon of the living battleship is launched, it will take a short time to store energy for the next attack.
So, despite the advantages of energy weapons that biological weapons can't have, Abbathhar has always discarded them, insisting that only the swarm of biological ships evolve biological and chemical weapon systems.
This persistence was now well rewarded in the great battle between the First Fleet and the Sarnagar fleet.
Although the ships of the Sarnagar fleet can be regarded as fierce in firepower with every salvo, they are far inferior to the First Fleet in terms of firepower density and endurance.
In addition, now that the fleets of both sides have entered the "melee fire zone" within 4,000 kilometers, there is almost no difference between biological and chemical weapons and energy weapons in terms of accuracy, range, and even power at this distance.
In this way, the advantage of the opponent's weapons is completely offset by the combat distance between the fleets, and in its place, the weakness of the biological warship using energy weapons is fully revealed.
In the face of the dense firepower projection of the swarm fleet, the Sarnagar fleet could only intermittently conduct a salvo burst, and in terms of the intensity of free-fire fire, they were far inferior to the ships of the First Fleet.
Therefore, when the First Fleet used sneak attacks to gain a tactical advantage, the Sarnagar fleet became almost completely suppressed by firepower.
Fortunately, there is still a flagship in the Sarnagar fleet, a flagship that can lay a large defensive wall, otherwise the Sarnagar fleet is estimated to be broken up by the fleet.
When it comes to defense, although the large-area spiritual ability field wall of Sayic is powerful, the Krakens in the First Fleet are not muddy walls that can be pushed down at a moment's notice.
The dormant Kraken's ability to resist strikes is simply terrifying, and even the warped beam main gun of the insect warship in the Sarnagar fleet must be hit in the same position three times in a row to break through the Kraken's shell defenses.
In this way, the First Fleet took the Kraken and Leviathan as the lead, and gradually closed the distance between the two fleets, and the closer the firefight, the more obvious the disadvantage of the Sarnagar fleet.
However, Sajich was clearly not a fool, and he quickly realized Stokoff's tactical intentions, and after discovering that it was difficult for its own fleet to take advantage of the Swarm fleet in close and medium combat, it quickly changed its tactics, sending a large number of small living warplanes to harass the Swarm fleet, while leading the capital group to slowly retreat.
Seeing this, Stokoff also immediately ordered the light warship fighter unit in the swarm to rush forward and exchange fire with the enemy fighter force, and at the same time ordered the capital ship group to continue to maintain the enemy's fire suppression while continuing to close the distance between the two sides according to the original tactical plan.
It used to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to use the Leviathan's main guns to make a big profit, and now the opponent has caused insufficient fleet firepower output for this reason and it is difficult to break through the defense of the main ships in the front row of the swarm fleet, such an opportunity is not worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the swarm fleet!
Moreover, the opponent has been holding back until now, and has not sent the secondary flagships that are close to each other, obviously still thinking of using these secondary flagships to break away from the fire circle of the swarm's advantage, but how could Stokoff let them do so easily?
The reason why he hasn't liberated Kraken until now is that he is waiting for the time when the other party can't help but use this trick!
The opposing commander would surely have thought that once the biter liberated the Kraken, the heavy firepower ships in the back would be unprotected, and then it would definitely take advantage of this to try to pull back a game from range.
So both sides are actually forbearance now, to see who can endure until the moment when the other party makes the first move.
The exchange of fire between the two fleets went all the way from the planet Ferrin to the third planet of the current star system, and the intensity of the battle slowly became white-hot.
Around the battlefield of the two fleets, large groups of allosaurus and shell-type fighters are also fiercely fighting each other, and the corruption of the swarm and the screw-type light warships of the Sarnagar fleet are speeding through the battlefield of the fighters, acting as reapers and reapers.
Some of the prowlers have been loitering on the edge of the battlefield of the capital ship group, dodging the aftermath of the artillery fire while looking for holes in the defenses of the Sarnagar fleet, looking for an opportunity to sneak in and make a big splash.
But Sayich, who had learned a lot from the battle between the biters and Hernandas's fleet, never gave them that chance.
It did almost nothing to defend its main fleet group, and the prowlers tried several times, but could not find a suitable break into the hole to break into the defensive circle.
The commanders of both fleets were very patient, and while they were almost violently bombarding and testing the opponent's defenses, they carefully controlled the distance between the two sides.
The cosmic void between the two sides was filled with missiles and beams of light coming and going, and various explosions were constantly bursting into colorful clusters of light on their respective defense systems.
Ever since entering the fleet firefight, neither the Swarm Leviathan nor the snakeheads on the opposing Obelisk have moved.
Both sides know that the flagship firepower will become the last guarantee for the decisive battle of the fleet, and it must not be used casually until the last moment.
Once the flagship of one side takes the lead, then the opponent's flagship has many opportunities and means to interfere and dodge the attack of the opponent's flagship.
You must know that although the main weapon of the flagship is huge, the disadvantage of too long energy storage time makes it easy to be dodged, so in addition to sneak attacks, the main gun of the flagship is generally used to deal with fixed targets more effectively.
Especially at this distance, which is close to a body-to-body artillery battle.
Both fleets each have a fairly experienced commander, and they are both waiting for the other to be the first to show their flaws.
Such a fleet battle is the normal state of engagement between two fleets of equal strength, and as long as no one interferes at this time, then this big battle can be fought for a long time.
But unfortunately, at this critical moment of the endurance competition, there is a guy who finally can't hold back......