Well, it's another chapter!
We finally have all the ground units for the Zerg forces laid out! For the foreseeable future, I'm gonna use these units only in terms of ground combat.
Chapter progress for the Stargate Galactic Imperium: The next chapter is about 40% done, and I am about to start writing about GEK vs VK Round 1... where Laemis gets kidnapped.
Chapter 37
Okay, I wasn't really happy with the idea of Orks rampaging across the main continent especially if they are being poured out through teleportation directly from the islands. By the time that Elric had arrived at the Zerg mainland, the Orks had swelled their numbers to half a million and growing. There were at least a dozen Squiggoths and about a hundred tanks, though their qualities were much lower than normally looted tanks. Orks were truly masters of salvage but only a mediocre inventors. The real problem was obviously the Stompa. Though the local Lords of the East tried to fight back using the various weapons that were inherited down through generations, the Stompa could not be stopped. Indeed a single Autocannon mounted on top of a castle battlement could have deterred a handful of Ork Boyz from approaching the castle, but it barely scratched the surface of the Stompa's armor. There were a couple of Lascannons hidden away by the descendants of Imperial Guard's heavy weapons teams, but they were also easily cast aside by the rampaging Stompa and the Waaagh! that closely followed behind the monster machine.
I must say, however, the Stompa is a really a well-built for its purpose. It was simply brimming with weapons. Its huge body contained four balcony windows from which Lootas and their Deffguns aimed down at the infantry while the huge Supa-gatler and the Deth Kannon caused some serious damage to the castles and walls. On its shoulders were two gun emplacements surrounded by spiky metal bits where a dozen Tankbustas fired their crude Rokkits. Moreoever, on the top of the Stompa's head was a fearsome weapon clearly salvaged from the fallen Imperial starship. It was the turret of a Manticore, with all the missiles painted red by the Orks. This turrent was manned by Orks with Big Shoota and extra Ork Rokkits that would replenish the spent missiles. Though I suspect that the great Ork was waiting for my units to fire those particularly dangerous missiles. The worst thing about that Stompa was the Lance cannon protruding from the middle of its belly. Obviously taken from a Lance Battery of the Imperial ship, this single barrel fired a devastating beam that literally obliterated a large hole through one of the major castles in the East. Though it only ever fired the weapon once, it was enough to see its power. I had to step in but without a Titan of my own, it would be a folly to... wait... I think... I think I have something.
Indeed, I had a weapon that could take on the Stompa if used correctly. What I needed was a big enough creature to fight the Stompa and make some damages. Even though psionic beings like Alena could cause some damage, the Stompa was simply too big and too well protected by the Waaagh! energy that my senses could see as a cloud of red mist. I was despairing whether I should throw my lesser units at the Stompa to delay it until my Titans were ready, but I remembered that there is one creature that is almost at completion and is big enough to cause some serious damage to the Stompa.
It was my first BODY!
The huge egg was pulsating. It was merely days before it would fully mature, and I was going to keep it in suspended state, but now I was going to wake it and possess it. Ultimately, this creature was unique in that it was empty of mind. Only the autonomous functions and basic defensive reactions would function, meaning that it would breathe, eat and kill. However, it is an incredibly powerful creature in both physical prowess and psionic capability. Standing at nearly 7.5 meters, the creature was basically designed to fight something around the size of Greater Daemons or the Swarm Lord. However, it would do quite well against the 14m tall Stompa. Physically, it did not look so powerful, at least on the first glance. This was a ruse to keep the creature from wasting its energies. In its erect form, it would look somewhat like the Evangelion Unit 1 in terms of heightened shoulders and long human-like arms and legs. However, it had a second pair of arms, and elongated head like Frieza's second transformation as well as long spiked tail a little like the stegosaurus, though the spikes were far more numerous. On its back, there was a pair of boney wings, somewhat like the wings of Kerrigan, just because I liked her wings. However, these wings were not really for show only. They were really wings but more like appendages with three sharp talons protruding from them. The similarity ended with Kerrigan's wings was the way it folded. It was neither boney or so hollow in its formation. It was thickly muscled and clad in carapace and chitin, and the talons on its end were very sharp and crackling and glowing with powerful psionic energy. Of course, the wings were not the only melee weapons on my new body. The second pair of arms had a talon that can be stored in the forearm, very much like Alena's own melee weapons. These would glow with the Power of the Void, just as the Dark Templars used them, just a lot more powerful. The primary pair of hands were human-like but the fingertip were clawed, and they crackled with disruptive energies, which would allow me to tear through enemy armor and shield with surprising ease.
The psionic powers of my new body was also impressive. It needed to have strong psionic capability since it would house my consciousness and channel my incredible power. Certainly, the creature was still too fragile to contain my whole consciousness or my entire power. If I did so, the creature would disintegrate within a moment. However, even with a small fragment of my consciousness and power, it would still be so powerful as to take on a Stompa by itself. Eventually, however, I would upgrade the body or make completely new designs. For now, this creature would do. It had a single Pylon-sized Khaydarin Crystal in its chest that supplied incredible amount of psionic energy as well as protecting the creature from psychic attacks by absorbing the psychic power and converting it into psionic form. The hands also had Khaydarin Crystals, allowing Warp Blades and disruptive energy on claws even if the primary Crystal was drained. In its elongated head was another rather large Crystal, and this Crystal was for the offensive psionic powers only. While the primary Crystal would power the incredible amount of Hardened Plasma Shield as well as the use of Vortex, an ability of the Protoss Mothership that was reinvented for my body. The secondary Crystal in the head would power abilities such as Psionic Storm, Psionic Implosion and Summon Terror. The Psionic Implosion is an upgraded version of what Kerrigan used during her war against Jim Raynor. She would lift up a single vehicle into the air and made them explode. That was nice but weak. My Psionic Implosion was an area of effect ability that would lift up anything in a small area and implode them. As for Summon Terror, it was actually use of Protoss technology imbedded in my creature. I could summon a dozen Terrors, very special creatures that I have designed as bodyguards for my new body. Using the Warp-In technology of the Protoss Warp Gate, I could summon the Terrors from the Primary Hive Cluster. Not that my new body needed bodyguards, but it is good to have support to clear away lesser enemies while I engage the big ones.
Terrors, a strand of special Zerg creatures, was a completely new design thus far. Just as Hive Tyrants of Tyranids have Tyrant Guards, I wanted bodyguard creatures, and if they prove viable, I would replace Hunter Killers in protecting my commanders. Terrors were not cumbersome heavy creatures like the Tyrant Guards, but they are not fragile cannon fodders either. They were intelligent and dedicated warrior-strand with incredible power and strong protective instinct. They are about as big as Ork Nobz or Tyranid Warriors, and they bear somewhat of humanoid form, unlike the Hunter Killers. Their legs are thick and strong, designed to block the charge of enemy tanks with the strength of their legs. Their four arms are heavily muscles and their hands are massive. Their massive hands end with long and broad claws sheathed in psionic energy. They are also one of the few creatures in the Zerg Swarm that uses 'tools' instead of biomorphic growths. Though protected by thick carapace, they also have metal armor plating imbedded into their bodies, and in their hands are powerful melee weapons made from the same yellow Protoss metal that the armors are made of. A huge axe, a large hammer or terrible spiked flail would be in their hands and each strike would bring death to the enemies. These weapons, however, were not entirely mechanic, since the symbiotic creature inside each weapon would connect with the Terror and be fed psionic energy to maginify the destructive powers. Moreover, the incredible shield strength and powerful regeneration would make the Terrors extremely difficult to kill. Also, they were mixed a little with Hybrids, allowing them to become more powerful than any Zerg creature so far. With broad chest and shoulders hiding a pair of spine-shooting mechanism, they are capable of ranged combat, but they mainly focus in melee combat, thus they are armed with melee weapons.
With a dozen Terrors, there is nothing that could disrupt me when I face off with the Stompa.
Hey, maybe I can even kill that annoying Warboss too.
"I luv my dakka!"
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The crude bullets flying out from a Deffgun showered the humans fleeing from the terror of the Stompa. The Loota roared with laughter as he let loose another barrage at the puny humans. His name was Bullitbiter the Loota, and he really liked killing humans with his very loud Deffgun. He loved how the bullets pierced the humans with little red hole on one side and larger holes on the other side. Besides, the Orks haven't had any decent fighting in a while, and the Warboss forbade Orks fighting each other during their attack of the human lands. This Loota didn't really like the idea but he wasn't about to challenge the Warboss.
"Only humies... 'save ya fightin' fer the bugz' he sayz. Dere ain't no bugz 'ere but humies."
Then he saw something. He was standing on one of the four balconies, and it gave him a good view.
"Hey boyz!"
Other Lootas on other balconies looked at him.
"Wot?"
"U boyz see dat?"
"Huh?"
On the horizon, there was a long line of dust cloud approaching towards the Orks.
"Wots dat?"
"I dunno."
Then something flew at Bullitbiter, and it was sheer luck that the Ork Loota evaded strange ball with three white tentacles spinning at high speed. The ball was excreting acid and it pierced one of the armor pieces that protected the balcony only to reverse its direction and bounce upward toward the Ork. Bullitbiter swung his large Deffgun and the acid-spewing ball was knocked aside only to bounce off the armored hull of the Stompa and falling down over the balcony.
"Wot was dat! Strange fing!"
"Hey! It's da BUGZ!"
Bullitbiter looked up at the shouting and saw at least twenty Mutalists swarming over the Stompa. The Ork's face was quickly filled with toothed smile.
"It's time fer WAAAGH!"
The other three Lootas roared in agreement. Bullitbiter turned around and looked two Gretchins holding spanners and trying to tighten some screws.
"Gretchens! Go call some Shoota Boyz up 'ere wid Big Shootas!"
"Okay, boss! Whatever you say!"
Turning around, Bullitbiter turned his guns upward.
"WAAAGH!"
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With strange whistling sounds, three more Glaive Wurms struck the Stompa, but they failed to strike the Lootas protected by the armor plating on the balconies. Instead of killing the Lootas, the Lootas were firing so many dakka into the sky that two Mutalisks were torn to shreds within moments. Then more Mutalisks arrived with some Gattlisks. Suddenly, the Stompa was busy with Ork Shootas and Lootas climbing on to some flat bits and shooting their guns up at the Mutalisks while the Zerg fliers, now numbering nearly a hundred, began to send down their own ordiance against the Orks.
"More DAKKA!"
Bullitbiter roared as he grabbed a long belt of bullets from the hands of three Gretchens carrying it and shoved it into his Deffgun.
"Where ar me Shoota Boyz! I want more dakka!"
"We'z 'ere Loota Boy! Let's Waaagh!"
"WAAAGH!"
Two Shoota Boyz with Big Shoota appeared from behind the Loota and positioned themselves next to the Loota and fired at the Mutalisks. Then something else came.
Screech~! Screech~! Screech~!
A dozen small white-colored fliers flung themselves at the Stompa, fulling intending to ram the big vehicle. They were Zerg Scourges, and though the Orks didn't know what Scourges were or what they could do, they fired their guns at the smaller ones anyway. Being much more fragile than Mutalisks, the Scourges died, but two made through the field of bullets and crashed into the Stompa. One Scourge hit one of the balconies and the explosion made from the Scourge's chemicals was enough to blast apart the Loota, three Shoota Boyz and a Gretchen, as well as turning that window into a large charred hole. The other Scourge also hit the Stompa, but the armor plating was just enough withstand the attack, though the hole was quite large. Unfortunately for the Swarm, the Ork vehicles are surprising sturdy, and their functions could not be disrupted by few Scourges.
"Wot! 'splosive bugz? Boyz! Shoot 'em down!"
"More dakka! I loves it!"
As the minutes passed, there were more Mutalisks despite the scores of them falling from the sky against heavy anti-air capability of the Stompa as well as the Lootas, Shootas and Tankbustas on the ground firing their own weapons into their air. It was not just the Mutalisks that arrived, however. A hundred thousand Zerglings followed by five thousand other Zerg creatures had arrived to strike at the Stompa and the Orks below the monstrous machine's feet. The battle was truly massive. Forty thousand Ork Boyz and the Stompa clashed against the Swarm. Slugga Boyz and Zerglings hacked at each other with their choppas and claws, while Hydralisks and Roaches fought the Shoota Boyz. Ultralisks stomped their way through ranks of Orks while Tankbustas rained down rokkits in such numbers as to drown out the roars of the Ultralisks being torn apart by the crude Orks missiles. Ork Nobz, unable to find any creature to match their size or the ferocity, swung their terrible melee weapons and waved through the battlefield in a haze of battle-lust. Yet, even they had met their match in Infesters. Scores of Infesters, being much more powerful than those under Kerrigan, used their Neural Parasite from beneath the ground. They also sprayed Fungal Growth over the Orks, holding them in place while the mind-controlled Nobz suddenly turned on their comrades. Of course, the Orks did not care as long as there were plenty of fighting to go around. Soon, Looted Tanks were moving back and forth, crushing the Zerglings under their wheels while firing their guns, and as their counterparts, Omegalisks stomped their way around the battlefield, killing Orks with their savage feet or with their terrifying hooks.
The battle raged as more Orks, sensing the great battle from the distance, joined the Stompa against my Swarm. Of course, I sent more units there. I needed the Orks to be there, stuck in a battle for one more day, and I was perfectly willing to sacrifice millions of Zerglings to keep them occupied for a whole day. Four streams of fifty thousand Zerglings each turned their marching direction and bypassed the human defenses just to get to the battlefield. They ran for hours and immediately joined the fray, while thousands of Roaches, Hydralisks and other more powerful creatures were delivered by Overlords or through Nydus Worms. Then Volran sent his Ultralisk variants. A thousand Ultralisks, two hundred Banelords, thirty Omegalisks charged headlong into the ranks of Ork Looted Tanks, Wartrucks full of Boyz, Wartraks with their rokkits and a dozen Squiggoths. Their battles were titanic and the devastation reached the lesser creatures as well. As tanks exploded, scores of Ork Boyz and Zerglings were turned to ashed in the fires of the tank's generator exploding, and Ultralisks that had been mauled and murdered by a Squiggoth would spit out scores of Broodlings that would eat away at the Squiggoth's foot, dropping the monstrous creatures on top of the Orks and Zerg. The Hargen sent his fliers. Escorted by many hundred Mutalisks and Gattlisks, scores of Broodlords, Guardians, Corruptors and Devourers swarmed over the enemy, only to be countered by over a hundred Deffkoptas and Fightas as well as the devastating missile barrage from the Stompa's head.
The worst damage was caused by the Stompa itself. Every time, just as my Swarm managed to get ahead, the Stompa would turn the tide of battle once more. When my reinforcements of Zerglings came and overwhelmed the Boyz, Bugklaw appeared on top of the Stompa's head and let out a guttural roar, and the Stompa pointed its Deth Kannon and Supa-gatler at my Zerglings still streaming in by the thousands. The rain of destruction was too horrible to mention. By the time the Supa-gatler had finished firing, over a ten thousand Zerglings were killed by that gun alone while the Deth Kannon also scored well over a thousand Zerglings. Then when my Ultralisks came and destroyed many vehicles and Squiggoths, the Stompa turned the battle around once more, pointing and firing its barrel of the Lance battery. The powerful beam created an elongated crater where nearly half the newly arrived Ultralisks were turned to ashes along with many Zergs and Orks. Even when the fliers came, the Manticore battery on its head fired deadly missiles that exploded in mid-air and spread so much burning hot shrapnel that even tough creatures like Guardians and Broodlords were torn to pieces. In order to delay the Orks once more, I sent in a wave of Overlords filled with Banelings. It rained green, but against the humungous size of the Stompa, few hundred Banelings could not do anything.
In the end, however, I got what I wanted. I had delayed the Orks for a day. Sure, I lost about two hundred thousands Zerglings, fifteen thousand other Zerg ground units and two thousand fliers of various kind, but it was worth it. The Ork forces, being attracted to the battle, had gathered around the Stompa, and that cleared away large areas that Orks had conquered.
My forces had retreated from a day-long battle. They moved back for about nine hours when the Orks finally got over partying with squig pies and tankards of fungus beer. They really enjoyed their 'victory' not knowing that their victory was an illusion that I have created for them. They also didn't notice that their 'tellyporta' beacons had stopped sending reinforcements for a few hours by this stage. They had no idea that their island, full of Orks ready to invade the mainland, was under siege and was being devastated by my forces. Rains of Banelings, just like how I did it with one of the islands during the previous Orks invasion. It was that many of Splitterlings had left their lesser spawns during the last drop, and the island was now full of full-grown Banelings. I had noticed this very early, and though the Splitterlings were a relative failures compared to their spore-grown cousins, there were millions of them crawling all over that island, and the Orks had forgotten their previous staging ground. Of course, I had set up a new colony there soon after the Drop of Million Banelings, and there were about two dozen Nydus Worms connected to about fourteen islands, including two of the bigger islands. Not only did I send over two million Zerg units aboard Overlords, a dozen Patriarchs and Matriarchs led a sizable force across the ice bridge. Now, Elric had joined the main camp, though I immediately sent him and his personal host to the Eastern Coast to capture those Ork strongholds so that Bugklaw cannot fall back from this when it all falls apart for him. I pooled my units in preparation to end the great Ork and his Stompa once and for all.
The great Ork had gathered to him a mighty host. He rode upon the Stompa itself, and inside the Stompa were a t least thirty Mega Armored Nobz within the vast holds of the Stompa. The Stompa itself was surrounded a squadron of forty or so Looted Tanks, and over seventy Orks vehicles of other kinds. Indeed, the Warboss must have pressed his most elite units into this campaign, and there were at least a dozen lesser Warbosses and nearly a thousand Nobz. Unfortunately for me, the lesser Warbosses were more like Mega Armored Nobz rather than real Warbosses, and there were no way that they would challenge Bugklaw during this campaign. Apart from these elite units, there were at least a thousand Mekboyz including several score Big Meks as well as many Weirdboyz. The Ork camp was also filled with at least two thousand Ork Biker Boyz on their crude warbikes. Then there were three hundred walkers ranging from Deff Dreads to Killa Kans, and not to forget, the forty Squiggoths were there among the Orks. Of course, nearly eight hundred thousand Ork Boyz of various kind were there too. Indeed, the Ork had truly gathered a massive army to himself.
However, by the time the Orks began moving again, I had finished my own preparations. Three million Zerglings had littered the fields and hills, and among those hiding were a hundred thousand Roaches and their variants. Hydralisks, too, were nearly one hundred thousand strong in number, but that was nothing compared to two thousand Ultralisks and their variants waiting for war. They were main forces, and specialists like a thousand Lurkers, sixteen hundred Infesters, four hundred Defilers, and a hundred Queens to work as synapse creatures. Overhead, nearly a hundred thousand Mutalisks swarmed around above the clouds, their numbers guarding five thousand strong fliers of upper echelon. With these numbers, the Orks were at a severe disadvantage, though they did not know it. It was truly an impressive force, but to make the Swarm stronger, were a few of the new Swarm's mightiest creatures. The Hybrids were also deployed in great numbers, though they were far more precious and costly than other creatures. Yet, they made excellent synapse creatures, even the Reavers. There were five Reaver Lords, the alpha among the one hundred Hybrid Reavers. They were clad, in parts, with Protoss metal for armor. Their heads, chest and legs were covered in burnished yellow, and they were larger than the Reavers, which were already larger than most Zerg creatures. Destroyers were there too, but there were only thirty of them.
The ground began to tremble at the marching of the Swarm. Like a carpet of red, purple, blue and orange, the three million Zerglings rushed toward the Orks. I sent everything, except for the Hybrids and some of the most elite units, against the Orks at once, wanting to overwhelm and surround the Orks. The Orks responded immediately at the sight of my forces. Looted Tanks fired their cannons and Lootas and Shoota Boyz fired their guns at the wave of Zerglings that filled the horizon. Yet, these three million Zerglings were not everything that I had placed on the field. From beneath the feet of the Orks, nearly three hundred thousand Zerglings and one hundred thousand Banelings exploded out from the ground to disrupt the Orks from stopping my main from encircling the Orks. The Banelings and Zerglings were of Elric's own brood, and they specialized in burrow-move, the ability which I used against the Orks in this battle. For nine hours, Elric's Zerglings and my Banelings had moved under the ground and waited for my order. Then, at this particular moment, they reappeared amid the Orks and caused incredible havoc. Even against the Looted Tanks, the Zerglings had climbed the tanks and began hacking away at the hatches, or killing the Ork in the turret seat.
Then the Stompa moved. With a great effort, the Stompa turned and lowered the single Lance and aimed it at the oncoming Zerg forces. With a great cracking sound of air suddenly heating up from the vast energy output of the Lance battery, a huge gash on earth has appeared, with a hundred thousand or more Zerglings turned into ashes and black smoke. However, the Lance was not really an anti-infantry weapon. As the great weapon cooled down, the Zerglings were upon the Orks. The Orks were still outnumbered by the Zerg forces three-to-one, and though the Orks fought hard, they were being slaughtered nonetheless. Zerglings were fighting the Orks in terrible frenzy; particularly because of three score Queen-variants. Hierarchs, Patriarchs and Matriarchs were powerful synapse creatures that emitted an aura of powerful psionic buffs, also, each of them were as powerful as an HQ units like Space Marine Captain or Hive Tyrant. This was shown as a Patriarch fired its beam weapon to turn a Looted Tank into a slag of molten metal, and a Matriarch tore a Nob into four pieces with her claws. My Swarm was winning. Though the Orks caught me by surprise when they teleported their Stompa, but I could easily overwhelm them with so many Zerg units.
Again and again, the Ork forces began to shrink against the Zerg units that utterly surrounded them. Though hundreds of thousands of Zerg creatures were killed also, there were simply too many of us for them to handle. A Flashgit would fire massive bullets and shred a dozen Zerglings into pieces only to be skewered by scores of spines fired from Hydralisks. A Nob swinging hammers and crushing both Zerglings and Roaches was quickly surrounded by a Hunter and five Hydralisks, and was cut, pierced and torn apart. A Looted Tank braved the Swarm and crushed several score of Zerglings and Roaches only to be flanked by an Ultralisk that severed the cannon's barrel then tore out the tank's engine, after which three Banelings crawled into the tank through the top hatch, turning the inside of the Looted Tank into a pool of green acid that had dissolved the Orks. A Deff Dread had managed to kill an Ultralisk at the cost of one of its arms, and was in the process of using its flamers built into its chest when a dozen Broodlings crashed into it. The Deff Dread toppled backward, its chest all mangled up. Once downed, the Deff Dread was torn apart by the sheer number of claws hacking away at it. Called by the Warboss, nearly two hundred Ork fliers arrived at the scene, including Fighta-Bommers, Fightas and Deffkoptas. Yet, they were immediately beset by thousands of Scourges crashing into them in big explosions. Without air-cover, the Orks became more and more desperate.
The only groups of Orks not losing quite so much were Biker Boyz and Stormboyz. They flitted this way and that way, evading as much claws as possible. However, even they were slowly being whittled down by copious amount of Hydralisk spines and fields of Lurker spines suddenly protruding out from the ground. As the first hour was passing, the Orks were already down to two-third of their original strength and it was falling fast. The only reason that the Orks were not entirely broken was the Stompa. The Stompa's massive and powerful weapons renewed the vigors of the Orks fight my forces. The Supa-gatler truly rained down ammunition down upon my units, tearing Zerglings, Roaches and Hydralisk into small pieces of meat. Of course, the Infesters responded by spraying vast amount of Fungal Growth at the joints of the Stompa's arms, delaying the machine as much as possible. Also, the Infesters sent forth legions of the Infested, the latest version of Infested Terran, but now looking more like bone-clad Space Marine firing bone-gun. The use of Infesters did not end there. Their Neural Parasites were so effective as well. The Nob leader of a squad of Slugga Boyz suddenly turning around and pummeling other Orks into a puree was a very powerful thing. The Orks responded to the Infesters by sending in their Weirdboyz to spew out Ork's psychic attacks. They were quite effective also, seeing how thousands of Zergs died in an intense fire of Psychic Vomit of Gork's Foot stomping on them. Infesters had a new ability that countered the Weirdboyz, however, and they used Feedback ability of the Protoss Templars against the Weirdboyz, making their heads explode every time they tried to use psychic power.
By the second hour, half the Ork forces were dead. Most of the vehicles and armored units were alive, but the Slugga Boyz and Shoota Boyz that made up the bulk of the Ork army was reduced to half, and the other half were also filled with many wounded. As the second hour was drawing to an end and the Swarm's air units were being torn asunder from the missile and rokkit attacks, the Hybrids finally entered the fray against Bugklaw. Bugklaw had been raging from within the Stompa, but he dared not leave the monstrous vehicle in case one of his elite Mega Armored Nobz took charge of the humungous machine and stomp the warboss. Now, such thoughts were beyond him as he was angered beyond measure. The Stompa opened fire once more with the Lance, wiping out two dozen Ultralisks along with several Squiggoths that the Ultralisks were attacking. The elongated crater was littered with black smudges that used to be Zerg or Ork, but Bugklaw didn't care that much. However, he still needed to turn the battle around. Even the Deth Kannon and Supa-gatler were not quite enough to frighten the 'bugs', and he knew that my Zergs did not retreat so easily. So, he had to send out his Mega Armored Nobz to lead the Nobz into frenzy. He ordered surviving lesser Warbosses, whose numbers now dwindled after being exclusively hunted by the Hunters, to rally the Nobz to charge through to the Hierarch Alpha, the largest of the Hierarchs. He didn't know that it was a fake and the Hierarch Alpha was but an oversized decoy.
As the Mega Armored Nobz charged toward the Hierarch Alpha, the Hybrids entered the fray. Led by the five Reaver Lords, Hybrid Reavers roared as they counter-charged against the Nobz. The battle was indeed titanic. Reavers were larger and more powerful as well as being protected by the Hardened Shield, but the Nobz were not weak and they the numbers. The claws and tentacles slashed and whipped about just as the chain axes, Power Klaws and 'Uge hammers were flung this way and that way. The shields flashed and hardened as Power Klaws of lesser Warbosses and Mega Armored Nobz slammed into them. Empowered by the hydraulics and pistons of their Mega Armor, the Nobz continued to slam impotently against the shield. Indeed, the inviolable power of the Plasma Shield was one of the biggest advantages that the Zerg had over the races of the Warhammer 40K galaxy. As long as the shield still had strength left, it was inviolable. There was no feedback from the shield. The Protoss, being weak-willed pacifists they were, did not fully utilize the potential of the shield. I did, and my version of their Plasma Shield was far superior. Unlike the Protoss, my shields didn't even let through concussion or gets removed by EMP. We were simply superior. Thus, the Ork Nobz slamming away with their crude weapons had only very little effect, particularly since the Reavers had Hardened Shield that greatly reduced incoming damages of certain caliber.
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Codex: Zerg
Ground Unit list
Drone - Mega Drone
Changeling - Viraling - Spyling
Queen - Matriarch, Patriarch - Hierarach
Zergling - Raptor (Raptor Alpha)
Baneling - Gorgeling
Roach - Beetle, Smoker
Hydralisk - Lurker, Hunter, Slayer [pending]
Infester - Caretaker
Infested
Defiler
Ultralisk - Banelord, Omegalisk
Hybrid Destroyer - Hybrid Destroyer Lord
Hybrid Reaver - Hybrid Reaver Lord
Gigantes
Erebus
Aether
Terror
The Overmind [body]
Air Unit list (so far)
Overlord - Overseer - Hiveseer
Mutalisk - Gattlisk, Devourer, Guardian
Corruptor - Brood Lord
Scourge
Scourer