The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 217 Exoskeleton Armor

Ickert is very clear about everything that happened in the astrological school. At the moment when the news came, Lani couldn't help but vomited and choked with the wooden barrel all morning.

Civilization was brutal before it was truly enlightened, and it wasn't any better after that.

Since then, the already dark history of the empire has been able to add a rich touch, the shocking "Night of Truth".

The severity of this incident has made it impossible for people to add any bloody and desperate depictions to it.

However, after this sacrifice, the problem that the entire magic world has been avoiding has been thoroughly discovered, and it can no longer be completely buried.

In the world, there are still countless truth-seeking mages experimenting and proving. They accepted the fact that magic is not omnipotent and began to look for new beliefs.

But that's probably a later story for the territory.

Ickert deeply realized that if you want to truly make history, the barrel of the gun must be hard enough.

If it is not hard, then it really can only be created with life.

The mages of the Astrology School also reflected deeply in the process, and invested in the construction of Windsor, which made the magic industry in the territory take off rapidly.

Using the advanced magical materials of the astrology school, the remaining mages also improved the summoning circle, which almost doubled its energy utilization efficiency. As long as the slaves of the Radley clan over there continue to supply, Windsor can continue to Swell down.

The problems of primary education and industrial education were also completely resolved by Lafayette. Now, it only takes about two months for the territory to train a batch of industrial rats.

The trial-produced magic machine was also completely stopped and scrapped one day, but with the addition of force mages, the second official magic machine took its place, and the automatic charging machine of the territory also successfully operated after several twists and turns. .

The newly imported machine tools from Skaven Magic City have also been put into production one after another. It won't take long for the territory's first self-developed lathe to come out in the foreseeable future.

Of course, all these developments are ultimately inseparable from the power of money. In order to raise enough funds for the various researches in the territory, Ickert invested in the expansion of the Windsor Paper Mill.

Thanks to the cheap labor costs of the Ratmen, the price of paper is almost zero. Even though Ickert insisted on selling it for one silver coin, it was still bought in large quantities by people, and there was no shortage of market at all.

Some people even worry about whether he will make money or not.

Eckert will not tell them that it may not cost a copper plate to produce a hundred sheets of paper.

When toilet paper is placed in the living rooms and toilets of nobles and nobles, and when more and more mages can record magic data at will, the mages of Windsor finally understand what it means to "change life with technology".

Different from the almost violent application of the traditional school of magic, the understanding and application of the laws of physics can truly change the operation of the world. It makes magic no longer a gorgeous weapon for some people, but a way for people to recognize and change the world. Tool of.

The Force mages who firmly believed in this made up a fatal shortcoming for Windsor.

In general, Windsor is a newly developed territory that lacks enough high-end Transcendents.

Although the mages can solve the magic problems, they can't stop the powerful warriors from rampaging in the front after all.

At the beginning, Ickert naturally thought of using the concept of tanks to fight against the Transcendents.

However, considering the manufacturing capabilities that could not reach the level of World War I, as well as the strong industrial strength required by the tracks, road wheels, transmission and gearboxes, tank guns, optical fire control systems, etc., Eckert knew that this was not the case. not realistic.

Moreover, such as wheeled and tracked vehicles, there is a natural application disadvantage in this world.

That is, there are no roads.

The reason why the German armored forces had difficulty advancing in Soviet Russia during World War II was because of the poor infrastructure and muddy land there.

To really apply these guys, decades of large-scale infrastructure construction is indispensable.

So, is there anything that has good adaptability in this era?

The answer is two legs.

Based on the magic theory, the force mages' solution to mid-to-high-end combat power is to manufacture small exoskeletons, starting with unpowered exoskeletons.

At the beginning, the force mages only thought of creating sufficiently reliable magic armor, but under Ickert's guidance, they successfully returned to the exoskeleton technology tree.

The so-called exoskeleton is not a magical thing.

Its core principle is to transfer the burden of the human being to other entities.

Eckert gave such an example to the Force mages.

A human carrying a heavy backpack will feel heavy, but if a stick is inserted under the backpack, a large part of the gravity will be supported by the ground, and the user will feel very relaxed.

This stick can be inserted into the ground at any angle, and naturally it can also be worn on the human body in strange shapes.

Only a sufficiently reasonable structural design is needed, and the exoskeleton can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of a superhuman individual.

Not only that, but if this set of armor is replaced with magical materials, the Ratman can activate the magic circle with a specific program, so that the exoskeleton can generate autonomous power under the magic effect, and even small servo motors are not needed. All you need is a sufficiently strong anklet structure and the ability to overcome the most primitive automatic casting.

In this regard, Veroson has paved the way for the territory.

The plan for the powered exoskeleton was quickly put on the agenda. In addition to this improvement, other military achievements of the territory also had a breakthrough direction.

First of all, it is about the imitation of the Ratmen mortar. After Ickert's field research in Skaven, it is determined that the caliber of that thing is at least 120mm.

I didn’t think there was any problem when I played the game before, but now that I think about it carefully, the Ratman who can carry that thing around and shoot it without firing a cannon is simply a top Skaven superrat. !

In the childhood days next door, the grenadier, the ultra-light mortar, was severely injured by an American soldier. The soldier put this thing on his thigh and fired it, and successfully fractured himself.

You know, the caliber of that thing is only fifty millimeters
Thanks to the superior material technology of the Territory, Windsor's mortar does not need to have a barrel as thick as the Skaven, but unless the power armor is successfully developed, it will never be able to fire like in the game.

In terms of caliber, Ickert tried its best to pile up to 120mm. After all, no matter how big it is, it really has no mobility.
However, although there are cannons, the development of cannonballs is a difficult problem. Ickert thought about it all night, but he couldn't figure out how a smooth spherical cannonball as big as the Ratman could be loaded and fired immediately.

Anyway, here he can only think of some simple ways to increase the firepower of the army. A magical wooden fuse was quickly built, coupled with the right amount of pyro-explosion and new launch technology, the territory can be regarded as having crude grenades.

(End of this chapter)