Stellaris from the Automata Era

Take the cat next door as an example. Equipment with only 50% reliability is really not suitable for leaving home.

They are just like the idiots in daily life. If they take even one step forward, they may fall flat on their face, and such a fall will naturally be counted as a loss.

If it is not wartime, it is still okay. At most, you have to return to the field or repair it on site. However, once you enter a combat state, it will be a life-threatening experience.

The Treeman, who is also a fallen being, should not have a value as high as that of the Cat Meng, but in fact, the failure rate of only 3 levels is enough to put a lot of pressure on the logistics.

After all, a new 7-layer battleship that leaves the factory is like a new 9-layer graphics card that a female college student uses for her own use, both of which are considered blind boxes.

It’s better if something happens on the spot, but I’m afraid it will happen at the critical moment.

Therefore, the tree man's performance when he went out was already very brave.

However, just as their fleet went out to find the dormant Earth fleet for a glorious and sacred duel, an alarm signal came from home.

"What happened?" The commander of the Treeman Fleet actually found it hard to believe that his home had been robbed.

The data and intelligence of the Earth have been leaked everywhere. Due to the pressure from the people and the consideration of boosting courage, the information that "the Earth actually does not have many fleets" has spread throughout the entire territory of the Tree People.

This information was even posted by their diplomats on the Fallen Platform communication network as strong evidence to mock other people's interstellar Empress Dowager Cixi.

But when the alarm sounded at home later, I was really caught off guard.

But it doesn't matter much. The total number of fleets on Earth is there. Apart from the need to protect its homeland, at most only one fleet can cross their face.

Then they were taken advantage of by five mechanical fleets.

"Tell everyone to jump their entire fleet over here! Otherwise, we won't be able to defend this place!"

In fact, the jump fleet is not a very good choice, but it is useful.

It is undeniable that the tree people were caught in an empty time point, and their fully staffed main fleet went to the depths of the starry sky to find others for a decisive battle.

Those left at home are those who are currently being supplemented.

When five fleets emerged from the warp and rode on their faces, the tree people realized that the standing army used to maintain law and order alone could no longer stop the current invading enemy.

Regardless of whether the intelligence is accurate or not, to deal with the invasion of five fleets, they must have the same troop size.

In order to quickly respond to the enemy, they can only concentrate their fleet in one jump. Otherwise, by the time others slowly arrive, the Earth may have been completely destroyed.

It’s just that the tree people themselves are at the peak of technology, and their combat power has been lost due to the leap.

Even the most experienced commanders have to sigh that this is already a high-end game.

But they have another solution.

"All we need to do now is to delay. As long as our fleet comes back from deep space and launches an attack, everything will be fine." The commander of the Treeman fleet expressed his views on the situation and urgently sent a communication to his colleagues who were fighting outside.

Unfortunately, when its colleague connected the communication, it happened to see the glass observation port behind the colleague, and saw that the fleets in the sky were fighting.

"I'm sorry, but I'll need a little time." His colleague commanded with a serious expression. "I just ran into the 'Eye' outside a while ago."

Chapter 313: I need support!

"High-energy alert, the fleet has been locked on by the enemy."

The commander was startled from his seat by the voice of the ship girl's report.

"Why did they move?"

The commander, who had just "rebelled" to take over and kicked his colleague out of the command position a few months ago, was obviously not prepared for a head-on confrontation.

Compared with her compatriots who have been living in luxury in the attics for many years, she is clearly aware that her fleet will definitely not be able to win.

Fortunately, humans far away on Earth also recognized the current situation and directly instructed her to conduct a silent deep dive and wait for the arrival of subsequent reinforcements.

Naturally, she couldn't just sit idle during this period, so she tried to launch countless detectors into the treeman territory in an attempt to obtain more intelligence and star map details.

At the beginning, these detection equipment would be quickly counterattacked and cleared out by the tree people, but after a period of confrontation, the tree people may have realized that this was too energy-consuming and turned to regular cleaning.

The two sides have been going back and forth like this until now.

"Where are our early warning systems?" The commander looked up. She knew the battleship T-doll had sufficient authority to review the situation on the front lines, and even assisting the commander was one of the flagship's responsibilities. "Why aren't they working?"

"They've been eliminated. You should be aware that today is the scheduled time for the Tree People to clean up their detection equipment." A huge projection appeared before the commander's eyes, clearly flashing various warning alarms, but only showing the scale of a small escort group. "And their exploration of deep space is also a regular occurrence. Ultimately, the past few months of peace have made us relax our vigilance. Even just now, their ship was right in our face and we didn't react at all."

The commander nodded, agreeing with this statement.

She straightened her cheongsam, then sank back into the seat behind her, crossed her legs, held the pointer in one hand and tapped the palm of the other hand with the tip, thinking quickly.

It was indeed carelessness. The Earth and the Ancients...or rather, their fleet had long since switched from open confrontations with the Tree People to an underground war based mainly on intelligence information.

The two sides have been fighting each other for several months, and have formed muscle memory of each other's methods. The commander keeps deploying detection equipment, and the tree people periodically shoot them down. Occasionally, they will send detection ships to deep space to grasp the movements of the Earth fleet.

During this period, no one had any actual fighting, and it has always been this mechanical and habitual process.

The Tree People took advantage of this and sent their guards to shoot down all the "eyes" and go into deep space, creating the illusion that the "game" was continuing. In fact, this was to find out their position and launch a deadly attack.

"I have to say, it was a success." The commander sighed. "How's the situation now?"

Through the glass observation port, sparks could be seen from time to time in the area around her, representing the fall of ships.

Although the artificial eye alone could not determine whose ship exploded outside, the control of the round head used for protection was indeed reduced little by little in their AI controllers.

"It's not good. All the round-headed soldiers have been sent to the front to serve as a barrier to block the enemy's advance. They can also serve as our eyes... Wait a moment..." The flagship had just finished speaking when there was an obvious pause.

Then the commander saw a flash of light at the front of his vehicle, followed by a thick beam of light bursting out and shooting forward.

At the same time, she also noticed that it was not only her own vehicle that was doing this, there were several similar beams of light emitted from the surrounding area. It was obviously a concentrated fire from the battleships.

"So did the magic element main cannon hit?"

"We hit them. Just now, a large ship tried to join the battle and use its firepower to harvest the round-headed creatures, but we killed them instantly with a round of concentrated fire. Seriously, why should adults interfere in a fight between children?"

"There are no awakened machines in the frigate, and the enemy probably isn't a ship girl. Okay, tell me again about the battle situation on the front line."

To be honest, with a round head as eyes, it should be possible to project the image directly onto the screen for the commander to see himself.

However, I heard that because the KanColle dolls have abandoned their human bodies, they have different performances in information collection and using artificial eyes, which seems to be more intuitive.

"It's terrible. It disappears like snowflakes. I can barely stay in the perspective of a round head for more than a few seconds before the screen is cut off because of its explosion."

"Then our resistance forces simply can't withstand this kind of consumption. If this continues, we might be transported into the subspace."

The original round-headed guards and expellees had suffered a lot of losses due to the failure of the previous one, and the current ones could not withstand a large-scale battle.

Once all the round-headed ships used as screens were killed, their remaining large ships would be overwhelmed by the influx of fleets.

This is the same reasoning as the most powerful tank not having a single soldier holding the line. After all, even if the opponent uses a physical wall, at least they will have RPGs and other armor-destroying equipment.

"Commander, please think twice! If we just go into the subspace like this, the other ship girls will laugh at us!"

"Who understands what you're saying?" The commander really didn't understand what these shipgirls were saying. Rather than being annihilated on the spot, she would rather consider preserving a few more humanoid ships. "If you want us to stop turning, we must have reinforcements."

Then she saw her communication device light up.

After confirming that this was not an enemy attack through the network cable, she immediately turned it on, and then the image of the girl in red jumped into the screen.

"Humanoid Commander? Our fleet of mechanical lifeforms is fighting at a node two star systems away from you. I think I might need a little help."

Is there really support?

Although the one coming was from the mechanical life form, the commander could not care less due to the emergency.

After all, the battle was lost, so she might set an example by going to enjoy the solitary room in the lunar base.

However, just as she was about to say something, the red alarm flashed again on the ship.

"High-energy reaction! High-energy reaction! It's main gun-level energy! Be careful, it might be the enemy's blind fire! All units, open your shields to maximum!"

Then, just as the words fell, several beams of light passed by them.

"Have everyone fight back in that direction!" The commander issued her order. After completing all of this, she turned her attention back to the girl in red on the screen. "What a coincidence! I think I could use some help too."

Note: What happened? How did a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology suddenly occur? The country is doing something big!

Chapter 314: Turning Point in the Battle

"It seems we can't rely on these humanoids anymore."

n2 (Destruction) hung up the video call and then turned his attention to his own battlefield.

Obviously, the overall situation was bad. As soon as they jumped out of the subspace, the round-headed fleet entered into a fierce battle with the treeman fleet that jumped over.

"Their fleet is larger than mine, but they have fewer people inside."

In fact, fleet organization, like moral bottom line, is a very flexible category.

It is more like the troop divisions in Hearts of Iron that can be combined at will, and the number of warships in a fleet depends entirely on the needs of the current civilization.

In multiple fleet group operations, the number of their fleets is easy to distinguish because they have their own core commanders.

N2 is attacked by 7 different fleet module groups.

Of course, judging from the overall number of warships, the round-headed ones still have the advantage. Compared with the humanoid fleet of about 10,000 in size, their wealth is doubled.

However, due to the lack of core battleships, they are composed of small escorts and destroyers.

As for the tree people...I don't quite understand them.

It’s not that N2’s eyesight is bad, he can’t even see the battleships arranged in a square formation.

The main reason is that the opponent's system is too chaotic.

"The tentative enemy fleet number one consists of four battleships and several thousand screen ships. Number two has over 30 battleships and about a hundred cruisers with no screen ships. And number three has no battleships or battlecruisers at all? The other fleets are all organized inconsistently. Has the space battle fleet showdown been rigged from the outset?"

In fact, N2 had heard a long time ago that the tactics and objectives would vary depending on the arrangement and composition of the fleet.

For example, if a civilization does not bring a large fleet of escorts and destroyers, then this civilization must have unparalleled confidence in its own artillery firepower and be able to annihilate enemies at a distance or those that want to get close to it.

And without the escort of large warships, they would certainly want to rush straight to the core of the enemy like a pack of wolves, using their huge numbers and flexibility to approach and tear apart the enemy's formation.

The above examples all have their own clear tactical cores, and most civilizations can choose them based on their own technological conditions and advantages.

But what about the tree people?

It's a messy mix, with a little bit of each.

n2 has no way of guessing the opponent's specific tactics and strategies.

This is just as puzzling as a fleet composed entirely of battleships being easily defeated after a short exchange of fire. What is the point of forming a fleet like this? It can't be because it's cheap, right? (Note)

In short, it is already difficult for n2 to figure out the tree man's intentions.

But fortunately, she soon discovered that there was no need to figure it out.

Compared with the tree people, the round heads have an absolute advantage in numbers. Generally speaking, the battle situation is actually returning to the neighborhood she is more familiar with.

They relied on the huge crowd to crush their opponents, just like they did when they fought against the humanoids, and completely defeated their opponents with their overall size.

Then she suddenly realized that this trick didn't seem to work very well.

The treeman battleships roared into the battlefield. Their presence alone would not cause much shock, but once they were clustered, their output would be noticeable to the naked eye.

In particular, the design concept of the tree people is clearly biased towards firepower. Every part of their warships is covered with gun emplacements. Coupled with energy technology, even the secondary guns used for defense can easily shatter the armor of the round-headed people.

Although it was unknown why some of the warships remained motionless when they jumped over, the remaining battleships quickly formed an array and directly penetrated the round-head front. At least from an intuitive point of view, a hole had been torn in the direction of their advance.

However, it is difficult for N2 to have a countermeasure for this tactic with large ships as the core.

After all, N2 lacked large ships to engage in a head-on confrontation with the enemy, and her plan to change her strategy and rely on a large number of ships to swarm and erode the battle group was quickly defeated.

Countless enemy guards risked their lives to defend the battle line, creating a good output environment for them.

This is also the specific reason why N2 ran over to call the commander. She really needed someone to help her during this period of time.

Although she usually doesn't think highly of the humanoid fleet, they do have battleships.

Previous battlefields have proven that the magic element main gun has the same penetrating power as a light spear. Even if it may not be able to match the opponent in a head-on confrontation, at least it is not a big problem to kill from a long distance.

Unfortunately, it seems that the humanoid fleet is unable to take care of itself.

"Very good, this is a high-end game."

From the current perspective, N2 can only choose to resist, relying on the number of fleets to gradually defeat all the guards, and then devour the opponent's last battle group like an ant.

Theoretically speaking, this is indeed a feasible method and the only option at the moment.

However, after several hours of fierce fighting, n2 once again discovered that the opponent seemed to have some technological advantages over him.