The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4911

Ves finally realized what a proper heavy artillery mech was like.

Although he already formed his own answers through all of the theory he learned recently, all of the textbooks answers he came across could not equal a live demonstration!

It did not matter whether there was a 200 year gap between the current time and his own present time. The way that mechs fought hadn't really changed all of that much in the intervening years.

It also did not matter that the Iron Hedgehog was an expert mech rather than a standard mechs. Many rules in combat remained universal regardless of the properties of the individual combat machines.

Ves was able to distinguish all of these factors and model a combat scenario involving a group of standard heavy artillery mechs.

When Ves imagined how his Transcendent Punishers would fare in similar scenarios, he quickly concluded that the battles would never be able to progress so well!

"They don't have a strong capacity to attack with indirect fire."

The Transcendent Punishers were first and foremost designed to function as bunker mechs.

Indirect fire was pretty much non-existent in a spaceborn environment as gravity did not alter the trajectories of projectiles with mass.

When put on land, the Transcendent Punishers became much more limited. The luminar crystal cannons that Ves had always been proud of were only capable of direct fire, which meant they could not fire over structures and always had to come close enough to expose them to direct counterattacks!

Although the Transcendent Punishers could still rely on its pair of heavy gauss cannons to reluctantly strike targets from a distance, Ves knew that they were not designed to be operated in this fashion.

"Two cannons aren't as good as eight cannons, let alone sixteen cannons!"

They were designed to operate in space over longer distances where muzzle velocity was one of the most important parameters of combat effectiveness.

It was difficult to reduce the power settings of these gauss cannons to a large extent, but this was often necessary in order to allow them to arc over hills and buildings and strike at targets with a reasonable amount of effectiveness. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

Though Ves was unsure whether he should design a dedicated landbound heavy artillery mech in the future for his clan, he preferred to solve his Transcendent Punisher's deficiencies in this aspect.

"Maybe there is a way to get the best of both worlds…" He muttered.

He came up with the idea of making his Transcendent Punisher more modular. Why settle for one configuration or another when the Eye of Ylvaine could change the weapon loadout of its heavy artillery mechs before a deployment?

"This is actually a great idea!"

It adequately solved the dilemma between optimizing a mech for spaceborn and landbound combat.

The mech pilots might grumble at the need to train two substantially different skill sets, but his mech pilots should be able to handle the additional challenges.

As for his first mech commission with Davute, Ves was more inclined to design a dedicated landbound heavy artillery mech.

It was not suitable for large military forces to bet too much on a one-size-fits-all approach. The Larkinson Clan could get away with it because its fleet possessed a limited mech capacity and could compensate for many performance drops by investing lots of money!

The Federal Military of Davute could not adopt such an approach because its circumstances were much different.

Although Ves didn't exactly know whether he wanted to make his first commissioned mech for Davute viable in space battles, it must definitely perform well on land!

Ves truly desired to replicate Venerable Irene Mox's amazing performance in this campaign.

The combination between her meticulous calculations and the Iron Hedgehog's weapon loadout resulted in an impressive impact on the battlefield, one that could be replicated as long as Ves designed the right heavy artillery mech!

He became inspired by how well Venerable Irene Mox was able to expedite the conquest of this city.

Dozens more difficult cities like this still remained on Korinna V, but it became clear that the defenders had no solution against the Iron Hedgehog.

"There aren't enough expert mechs among the Bontue defenders." Ves concluded.

This admittedly helped a lot. Venerable Irene Mox wouldn't be able to shell the Bontue positions so brazenly if she had to remain on guard against attacks launched by enemy expert mechs.

However, expert pilots were rarely assigned to second echelon units such as planetary garrisons. They were much more often assigned to main mech forces that were expected to undertake the most difficult responsibilities.

"The Bontues on this planet are doomed if they continue to go on like this. The Iron Hedgehog is too great of a force multiplier!"

After conquering the city, the Quillim mech battalions spent a brief moment of time repairing their mechs and stocking up on supplies.

They stayed only as long as it took for the higher ups to send another mech unit to occupy and rebuild the city.

There was no need for the powerful mech battalion and its incredibly useful expert mech to stick to defense.

Just as the Quillim mech forces were about to advance to another city, the situation in space had changed!

"We are suspending our offensive."

"Keep restoring the defenses of this city!"

"The Bontues blew up the titan shield generators! There is no way to restore them. We can only put our own ones into place, but headquarters have yet to assign any replacements to this site."

"Get ready to pull out in a hurry. Don't waste your time on dragging away our heaviest supplies. Leave them behind if we must!"

It did not take long for the optimism among the men to take a turn for the worse.

A mech officer swung by Venerable Irene Mox in order to give her an update.

"The Bontues have unexpectedly sent reinforcements to this star system. The arriving enemy mechs outnumber our spaceborn assets by over two-to-one. It is not tenable for our forces to remain on this planet."

Venerable Irene Mox felt pissed at the thought of undoing much of the hard work in taking over this planet city by city, but there was nothing she could do to affect what was happening in space.

"Will we get pulled out?" She succinctly asked.

"Yes. You are a priority asset, so you will board the first combat carrier that touches down."

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