Ch.479The Second Siege of Tannhäuser. (4)

And that wasn’t all – users kept coming up with creative and bizarre tactics.

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Title: Today’s News) Real-time Tannhäuser battle report – Jebohdang-class makes a surprise appearance

Author: News Boy

Content: [GIF of a Jebohdang-class assault invasion ship ramming into a Titan Arum, with debris and explosions scattering everywhere from the impact]

Both users and NPCs are trying all sorts of weird strategies to survive and make an impact

When the forced salvage ships opened a large wormhole to pull in another Titan Arum for destruction

The Titan Arum reversed the situation by using that same wormhole to open its own, suddenly appearing right in the middle of the user fleet along with some escort ships

Thanks to that, a user’s Bahamut-class medium cruiser right in front got rammed and destroyed

And nearby gacha destroyers like Minakaze-class and Jackson-class were exploding left and right

But just as the Titan Arum that crashed into the formation was about to unleash its firepower

A user who had a Jebohdang-class assault invasion ship, which like my Kraken has a “one-in-a-million” drop rate

Just straight-up rammed it into the Titan Arum without overthinking lol

Of course, the Titan Arum was larger so it wasn’t sunk

But while the Jebohdang-class bought time with its ram attack, other nearby users attacked and subdued the Titan Arum

Comments:

-[Didn’t a Jebohdang-class appear once before?]

-[That used to belong to the Walpurgis Clan, why does another user have it?]

-˪[The Walpurgis Clan collapsed fighting the Earth Federation fleet during the Humanity Revolution, and that user switched to the anti-faction side and is there now]

-˪[Oh]

-[Damn that’s badass AF]

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Just like my Kraken, someone showed up with a Jebohdang-class assault invasion ship that supposedly has a one-in-a-million drop rate from “Behemoth-class Space Thingamajig(?)” and performed a ram attack on an enemy capital ship.

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<Tannhäuser Allied Forces Chat Room>

-[That’s showing them something awesome]

-[<Image of 12 annihilation ships in formation centered around a Megalodon-class, equipped with fluorescent skins.jpg>]

-[It’s the glow-in-the-dark annihilation ships]

-[Oh]

-[And it’s not just the appearance, they changed the beam colors too]

-[Cool, right?]

-[Wow! LGBTQ beams!]

-[You bastard]

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There was someone who belonged to some clan and brought a total of 12 annihilation ships, including an SS-class Megalodon.

He equipped different skins on each ship and fired beams with rainbow colors.

He was giving both allies and enemies quite the eyeful.

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Title: Yo this is pretty sick

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a massive dreadnought deliberately ramming its bow sideways to avoid a Titan Arum’s main cannon.jpg]

Whether they decided a gacha dreadnought exploding was better than losing smaller ships

They pushed the slow dreadnought’s bow with smaller ships to force it to move

And instead of using the dreadnought’s weak side boosters relative to its size, they just went full throttle on the main engines to dodge the Titan Arum’s particle lance

Comments:

-[Hmm is that really that impressive?]

-˪[It took less than a minute from confirming the Titan Arum’s attack to the dreadnought dodging]

-˪[Oh damn]

-˪[Considering a dreadnought’s maneuverability, they really calculated what would be most beneficial in seconds and rammed it]

-[Who needs Superhumans when we have people like this]

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Title: The Tannhäuser Legends Continue

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of small ships attached to the side of Icarus’s Ouroboros, pushing it while it’s firing a beam.jpg]

After seeing someone push a dreadnought to dodge, another guy is using Icarus’s Ouroboros area weapon in a different way

They’re pushing it sideways while it’s firing in focused mode, using it like a beam sword

The Ouroboros barrel got wrecked doing this stunt, and resource mining ships are busy repairing it

But anyway, they used it pretty effectively

Comments:

-[What the heck is this now???]

-[Wait, wouldn’t ships near the focused beam all melt?]

-˪[That’s why a few ships too close to the front got destroyed, but that only happened at first, and they used it well until the barrel broke](Author)

-˪[Lololololol]

-[This is insane, now other clan members will come up with even weirder stuff in future battles]

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There were even people controlling large ships with slow maneuverability by ramming and pushing them with smaller ships.

There were also those who, while not at Raksha’s level, used small ships to dart through enemy fleet formations and create diversions.

Some even used their Laplacian-class ships as decoys for a charge, then tried to capture intact Laplacian II-class ships.

Normally, with so many big brains in one place, they should have collapsed into infighting, but perhaps because they’d received etiquette lessons from the Punishment Fleet…

Thanks to everyone focusing on a single goal and displaying “creativity” rather than making reckless moves, the battle situation seemed to be flowing in our favor as time passed.

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But it wasn’t for nothing that the factions had “sharpened their blades” with events.

The Punishment Fleet appropriately responded to the users’ creative tactics.

Especially while users were drawn to the big and beautiful “super-large ships” like Titan Arums or Laplacian II-class ships and focused only on them.

Unlike the users, the Punishment Fleet didn’t concentrate on super-large ships but instead took an approach of slowly grinding down our overall forces.

The problem was that users who only used small ships from the beginning, or those who weren’t in the rear like me, had left their common-grade ships—which made up the numerical majority—to fight on their own.

While the Titan Arums tanked the users’ firepower, the Punishment Fleet’s forces literally ground down the users’ common-grade ships.

As a result.

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<Tannhäuser Allied Forces Chat Room>

-[We’re screwed]

-[Use the meat shields]

-[Wait where did all our escort ships go?]

-[They’re dead]

-[???]

-[Since you weren’t controlling them, the fleet fought on its own and got beaten by the Punishment Fleet]

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The disaster unfolded as there were terribly few ships left to protect the users’ main forces, allowing the Punishment Fleet’s firepower to concentrate on the users’ capital ships.

Of course, other users also had “direct mercenary groups” like the “Rhodes Mercenary Corps” or “Avalonia Security Fleet” that I was using.

When their common-grade ships in the main force were annihilated, they hurriedly deployed their direct mercenary groups to try to sustain the front line.

But realistically speaking, direct mercenary groups required good relations with the mercenary captain to exist.

Most users didn’t have such direct mercenary groups, so they had to watch their precious capital ships get destroyed one after another.

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Obviously, if we just left things like this, our lines would be broken through, and it was clear that I and other users in the rear would all be wiped out.

So the users and I decided to deploy most of our regular ships and mercenary groups to the front, except for anti-air ships needed to counter fighter teleportation.

“Jessica, call Lephan and Aquarius immediately and tell them to advance to the front.”

“Yes, Commander, but what about Bendalof and Nero?”

“Tell them to wait at the 1.5 line and ambush and subdue any enemy ships that break through the front line with surprise attacks.”

“Roger.”

The problem was that while we were repositioning our fleet to respond to the Punishment Fleet’s offensive…

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<Tannhäuser Allied Forces Chat Room>

-[Enemy dreadnought charging at the front]

-[Damn it, defense line breached]

-[Not enough DPS, requesting support]

-[On my way](Icarus)

-[Oh teleport spear attack]

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Unlike typical Xenovia ships, a heavily armored dreadnought covered in barriers and armor plating broke through the defense line.

To stop this breakthrough, I tried to use my Laplacian-class ship, which still had teleport capability, to perform a teleport-spear attack to sink it.

But just as I activated the teleport and was about to move with my nearby Krakens for a ramming attack…

-Beep beep beep beep!!!

“Ultra-high energy reaction detected ahead! It’s a particle lance!”

“Shit.”

One of the Titan Arums that was still alive in the rear fired its big and beautiful “Hyper Particle Lance Something” in this direction.

That shining beam streaked straight through the fleet without hitting anything in between and then…

-“Holy shit, emergency evasion!”

-“Maneuver impossible! Maneuver impossible!”

-“Hah.”

-KWAAAAAAANG!!!!

“…”

It turned my Laplacian-class assault carrier, which had just used teleport and couldn’t use barriers or maneuvers, into a “La(())a”-class.