The Bizarre Adventures of the Oil Man, but Starting with Warhammer 32K

But the production lines that Li Ang brought were like toys or building blocks. They did not need to be treated with any caution. Once they were set up, production could be organized immediately.

The soldiers under his command, wearing power armor, are all big consumers of energy. They should have no cost-effectiveness and endurance on the battlefield.

But with the support of Li Ang's production lines, the consumption of these equipment and logistics have achieved a clever balance.

As a sage, Omicron has a keen insight into production and logistics.

The first time he saw these CMC power armors, he thought they were just big toys for Leon to show off.

The Empire had no way to keep up with the attrition of this group of warriors. Leon could use them as his own private army, but wanted to promote them? Omikron had previously thought it was impossible.

But now he doesn't think so.

These production lines can be installed in foundries or simply placed on transport ships. Once they arrive at the destination, they can use local materials to produce and replenish the losses of these troops.

A shipload of mastercrafted weaponry, capable of production on only a handful of Forge Worlds, lost in the Warp could mean the difference between the outcome of a battle and the loss of a nation.

While losing a shipload of weapons or even a sector wouldn't be a big deal to the Empire as a whole, who wants to lose these finely crafted products if they can help it?

But what if the loss is not a fine product, but just a shipload of raw materials that can be transported at will and no one would mind losing?

You must know that what an empire with a vast territory lacks the least is various raw materials, what it lacks is the way to turn these raw materials into processed products.

If the empire could directly open its production line in front of the enemy during a war, it would only need to transfer raw materials from all directions. Then, the wealthy empire would be almost invincible.

Logistics has always been a headache for the Empire, which relies on warp travel. The priests had imagined improving the safety of warp travel or other methods of travel, but never thought that they could find another way in this way.

How could production be so... easy?

Omicron didn't know the answer, but he saw Leon's strong potential for war. Even if he couldn't produce other alien technology, this method alone was enough for him to dominate the world.

He made up his mind to report to Director Morse when he returned and to continue to be friends with Leon no matter what.

As for the elves on this planet?

Looking at the set of power armor that could be produced in just ten minutes on the production line, and the ammunition reserves sufficient to support a medium-sized battle, Omicron felt that they had no chance of winning.

This base will soon transform into a true military fortress, bringing an indelible shadow of death to the Eldar above.

He felt that the bean sprouts had better decide quickly whether to fight or flee, because Leon's steel torrent would not wait.

-

Li Ang's mind was no longer even on the bean sprouts.

He had never organized large-scale production before. Although he brought technological innovations to the production after taking over Maxim, the management also relied on Maxim's original production system.

Now he has to develop his own territory, starting from scratch, and he has to worry about everything.

Although there is Urquidex, who has experience in shipyard management, who can help him share the production pressure, and Lifar, who followed him from Maxim, is also doing his best to be responsible for personnel deployment and coordination, but the big decisions still have to be made by him.

But there were too many important things to do, enough to make Lifar and Urquidex follow Leon and nag him all the time from morning to night, which gave him a headache.

"The production of power armor has increased to 42 sets per day. At this rate, we can complete the re-equipment of a company within 30 standard days. The Undead Army's 300,000 soldiers will finally have another group of elite soldiers—"

This progress is indeed good, but Li Ang really doesn't want to listen to the report anymore.

He rubbed his temple and raised his hand to interrupt Urquidex: "Very good, you can handle the rest yourself."

"No."

Urquidex unexpectedly refused him: "There is one more matter that must be decided by you."

"what's up?"

"The raw material reserves we brought with the fleet are running low."

"Oh...ah? It's only been half a month!"

Damn it, he is not the principal who took the lead in covering up the deficit and withholding funds and falsifying production. Could there be people under him who embezzled money?

"Damn it, this is outrageous!"

Li Ang was furious. "Investigate, we must investigate thoroughly!"

Urquidex held down the emotional Leon and called up his recorded production log.

Unlike the traditional integrated production lines of the Empire, these decentralized modular units are being produced independently day and night and finally handed over to the overall assembly. However, the production speed of each production line varies depending on the complexity of the parts.

Urquidicos pointed to the exaggerated zeros in the data: "Simple parts were overproduced by 50% to 300% ahead of schedule, consuming 65% of the raw materials. However, the assembly line was idled due to insufficient production capacity for complex parts, resulting in an abnormal increase in raw material consumption without an increase in overall production."

This was not a problem in the past, because these parts would eventually be used. Even if they were not used in production, they could be directly shipped to the battlefield as logistics replacement reserves.

However, when raw materials are limited, it is not easy to balance each production link.

Leon suddenly realized that Warhammer's advocacy of integrated production lines was not entirely because STC fragments were technical black boxes that could not be disassembled.

It was said that the Mechanicum was ignorant and backward, understanding only production but not the principles behind it, with a large technological gap between different projects. However, when it came to conventional weaponry, the priests were able to fully analyze it.

They can disassemble and produce some weapons like Leon did, but when AI cannot be applied, balancing the various production links is by no means easy for this empire that still relies on the human brain, paper and basic electronic chips to process data.

Rather than meticulously organizing production that requires coordination, it's better to go straight to an integrated production line. Each unit that comes off the line is counted, and how many can be produced depends entirely on whether Ohm Messiah grants his favor.

Sometimes, giving up can be considered the simplest way.

But Leon is a man who has the ambition to fundamentally change the world, and he can't just go with the flow.

"Redesign the weapons so that at least simple parts that can be redundant become common parts for different weapons, so that we can absorb the excessive production capacity."

Leon pondered: "For a series of rifles, such as melt-type, plasma-type, and laser-type, at least 40% to 50% of the parts must be common..."

He suddenly thought of the special plasma rifle in Renault's hand, which had excellent heat dissipation performance.

He could also use those things as references, pursuing the standardization of parts while improving these weapons.

He didn't plan to do this himself. As long as he could get enough data and reference objects, he thought the priests he had recruited earlier would be able to make the improvements for him.

It can also be a chance to train the creativity of these priests.

However, this consideration is from a long-term perspective, to solve the problem of redundant parts in the future. The current problem of insufficient raw materials must be solved immediately.

Fortunately, Li Ang had previously learned the technology of geothermal hydrofracturing and mineral purification from Mars.

He ordered: "Organize a survey team to discover the mineral veins on this planet and mine them. The next focus will be on building mining and mineral processing stations to quickly increase raw material production to make up for our deficit."

Mineral veins were not a problem. As a carefully cultivated virgin world, this planet had everything it needed.

Just like on Maxim, the minerals of a low-level forge world depended on the planet's local resources. They had already discovered a number of exposed mineral veins on this planet, enough to sustain initial construction needs.

These were originally resources cultivated by the World Soul for the wild spirits, part of their "food and clothing provided for them" lifestyle. But now they had become Li Ang's wedding dress.

But the trouble lies here too, there are elves on this planet.

"Who are you planning to send on this mission?"

Urquidex asked.

"Let Mercado go. Assign five CMC power armor companies to him and have him stationed in the area where the minerals are to be mined. If there's an attack, the hunters will be able to provide support at any time."

The former Black Guard Captain was now serving as Colonel William's adjutant and was familiar with the affairs of the Undead Army. Leon felt that personally taking action would allow him to gain experience more quickly.

Leon believed that Mercado could handle this mission alone. However, he thought about it and then ordered:

"Let Renault serve as Mercado's deputy. I want the original colonists of these planets to participate in the development of this planet."

There were only a few thousand survivors left on the planet, but Leon had brought over 100,000 people who had landed on the surface, and the majority were still aboard Holo's merchant fleet.

The number of survivors was negligible compared to the large number brought by Li Ang. They lived in poverty and had no local traditions.

After seeing that Li Ang could provide enough protein, starch and water, they happily integrated in, and there was no conflict between outsiders and locals.

But Leon is really short of manpower.

The Black Guards had begun to gradually accept the management of the Undead Army and had begun training the elite Undead Army according to the Black Guards' standards. However, they were still soldiers after all, and the management methods they were familiar with were all military-style.

Even less so the priests. Although the living standards of civilians in the Forge World were better than those in other worlds, that was only due to the abundance of productivity. The priests themselves had never treated people as human beings.

After going around in circles, Leon realized that the person with the most routine management experience at his disposal was Renault, the "local law enforcement officer" who had managed tens of thousands of survivors.

He decided to go a step further and give the law enforcement officer a chance to see if he had the talent to succeed him. Whether the law enforcement officer could become a commander or a planetary governor, it would be helpful to him.

Mercado led Raynor toward the nearest mineral vein, while the priests, armed with their mining equipment, began digging. While the simple mineral processing center took some time to build, the higher mineral purification speed compared to a typical Forge World more than made up for it.

Starting from the ninth day, the mineral processing station has produced some output, making up for a certain shortage of raw materials.

But strangely, the expected Eldar attack did not come.

No matter how large the void shield was, it couldn't possibly extend that far to encompass the mining site. But strangely, the Eldar rangers who had been harassing them didn't take this opportunity to continue harassing them.

Mercado led his troops to prepare for battle, but the Eldar were silent as if they had never appeared.

Are they just going to sit back and watch things develop?

Even Leon, who had never cared about the Eldar, became curious. He asked Armidale to form several scouting teams with the hunters to find the ruins occupied by the Eldar that Raynor had mentioned earlier and gather information on their movements.

Armidale, who was approaching there, quickly brought Leon the latest information.

"You mean, the Eldar are fighting there?"

"Yes, it should be the Ark Eldar."

Armidale confirmed, "And the noise was quite intense."

The Eldar were not humans. While they were capricious and equally ruthless, they were not a race that valued indiscriminate bombing. If they could not control their movements, it simply meant that the situation was no longer under their control.

Li Ang became curious: "It's just a ruin over there. What on earth are the White Bean Sprouts doing to make such a big commotion?"

There are not many opponents in the universe that are worthy of the Eldar's careful treatment. Leon has some vague ideas, but he cannot make any assumptions based on nothing.

Leon pondered and realized that he needed to take some action on the ruins that would allow him to grasp the clues.

The intelligence he gained there would help him consider his next move on the planet. Furthermore, the mere possibility that the ruins contained a unique design for a plasma rifle from some pocket empire was enough to warrant his action.

However, he still needed some time to prepare, and he also had to take into account the large number of wild elves on this planet...

-

On the other side, Prophet Isram, who was still staying in the Savage Eldar tribe, was enduring endless questioning and accusations from the tribal leader.

Looking at the bad news brought back by the warrior Keldos, he understood something.

Everything that happened in this virgin world was developing in a direction he did not expect.

Chapter 253: Do you hear the cries of the Adas?

"Do you hear the cries of their companions?"

Across from Islam, the young tribal leader, Caledon, demanded, his words filled with savage anger:

"Do you feel the soul of the world falling apart?"

The halls of the sacred tree that served the World Soul were now surrounded by Savage Eldar warriors. As Caledon questioned them, their spears pounded the ground like drumbeats delivering an ultimatum to the Prophet.

Isaram calmed himself and answered calmly, using his usual excuse: "Before that, you didn't notice the smirk of the one who succeeded in the conspiracy. That Undead Overlord..."

"That's enough! How much longer do I have to listen to this?"

The Savage Eldar, without the Path System, were freer, more lively, and more emotional than the Ark Eldar. Caledon walked up to Islam and stared at the prophet intently: "Who cares about a walking metal skeleton? What's more important is that humans are desecrating our holy land with machines!"

"Their development won't be very fast, and they won't become a serious rival to us..."

"Not too soon?"

Caledon was so angry that he laughed. He signaled several priests to use their psychic power to project an image of humans digging a mineral vein. "You call this not too fast?"

Isram was silent. The human mines were as glaring as festering wounds in this perfect world, and he obviously could not deny it.

"Those monkeys are digging for the Holy Vein! Every tunnel they dig is a poisonous thorn in the World Soul! With every shovel they dig, my priests can hear the World Soul's painful whimper! And you, you distant relatives who have strayed from our homeland, calling yourselves the guardians of our race, but who can only drift on ships, are just hiding in the shadows like cowards! You are afraid to utter a word in front of these monkeys!"

There is still nothing much to say about Isram.

They even called back the two Ranger teams that had been harassing humans. Even if it wasn't because they were afraid of humans, it was the fact, and he couldn't really refute it.

What else could he say? Was he going to say that over a thousand elite soldiers on the Ark had been fooled around by a single Undead Overlord in the ruins?

They were busy here for over a month, but they didn't even touch the hair of the Undead Overlord. Instead, the Overlord used super-dimensional mazes and stasis fields to set up ambushes and captured nearly a hundred of their tribe warriors, so that Keldos had to call back the Ranger Squad for reinforcements?

The prophet could not speak, all he could do was remain silent.

But then again, he was also surprised at the speed of development of those humans.

He didn't understand human technology very well, but he knew that although those mysterious mechanical priests of humans used technology, their behavior was like the bonesingers in their Ark. They could not produce without chanting ten prayers every day.

With this understanding in mind, he made a plan to catch or destroy the Undead Overlord, and then find an excuse to leave and stay out of the conflict before a full-scale conflict broke out between the Savage Eldar and humans.

Now it seems that this plan is blocked from both ends, and both the Undead Overlord and humans are trying to make trouble for him.