The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7483

Chapter 7483: The Greatest Advantage of Woodsap Mechs

Ves and Alexa explored the various ways the Woodsap mech pilots showed their lack of competence.

Though expected, they still looked ugly when they showed off their meager skills and their lack of experience on a serious battlefield.

The aliens deployed to fight against the best of the Terran Alliance were no pushovers by any means.

Their answer to first-class multipurpose mechs came in the form of high-end phasefighters that put extra emphasis on a combination of strong transphasic energy shielding, high straight-line mobility and strong initial strike capabilities by carrying deadly transphasic missiles.

The first challenge the 120 experimental Woodsap mechs faced in battle was confronting a dangerous salvo of enemy missiles!

Though expensive in terms of phasewater alone, the native aliens clearly did not care anymore as they had gigantic reserves to spend on the mass production of powerful munitions.

Given the sizes of their fuselages and warheads, the native aliens laced enough phasewater into them to blow apart a modern first-class multipurpose mech’s azure energy shield with a single direct hit or a handful of close proximity explosions depending on the configuration!

Once those energy shields got blown apart, the exposed mechs truly came under threat by subsequent missile attacks.

A single direct hit to the torso had a significant chance of crippling an expensive machine!

A mission kill was practically guaranteed if the warhead struck from the rear!

The native aliens would still be able to earn a profit if they managed to take out an extremely expensive first-class multipurpose mech with a somewhat expensive transphasic missile.

As Ves and Alexa rewatched the opening of the very first engagement, the Woodsap mechs indeed got struck by a large swarm of transphasic missiles.

Of course, the biomechs did not make themselves easy to get hit. Their pilots fell back onto their training and dispersed their formation while at the same time shot down as many incoming munitions as possible.

There was no way in hell that their marksmanship could allow them to shoot down all of the missiles by aiming manually, especially when utilizing the integrated armaments installed throughout their entire wooden frames.

They could only entrust the integrated targeting systems to shoot down missile after missile with a variety of relatively low-powered laser beams.

Granted, the Terrans had applied a very advanced and customized version of their exclusive targeting and interception systems to the biomechs of the Arboreal Project.

All of this software was leagues ahead of the versions utilized by the Larkinson Clan. This was just one of many details that put the armed forces of a true star empire far ahead of the rabble.

Ves genuinely looked impressed when the Woodsap mechs managed to intercept 90 percent of the deadly missiles.

That was enough firepower to wipe out at least half of the experimental detachment!

However, both sides already expected that most missiles fired at the other side would never fully make it across.

"The enemy missiles struggled to home in on the Woodsap mechs at first." Alexa remarked. "The integration of Solus Gas into their mech frames might not be able to dampen all of their emissions when their activity levels have raised above a certain threshold, but it is still making their Terran-based ECM systems more effective."

That said, transphasic missiles of this quality would not get fooled so easily. There were no instances where they ended up following nonexistent ghosts in harmless directions.

They could all accept active guidance from nearby phasefighters that specialized in this particular mission.

The Woodsap mechs did their best to shoot them all down no matter their guidance.

"It was not a bad idea for these Woodsap mechs to automate their point defenses." Alexa commented as the young women looked appraisingly at the archival footage. "Professional mech pilots that operate their machines under semi-manual control tend to intercept a greater proportion of missiles, but also make mistakes on occasion, so the balance does not usually change all that much. It is only the outliers that are able to change entire outcomes."

In any case, a number of missiles converged and struck over a dozen different Woodsap mechs.

The aliens had programmed their munitions to strike an enemy machine at least several times, thereby raising the chances of taking out an adversary without wasting too many warheads on overkill.

However, such programming often faltered when faced with abnormal situations.

This was one of those exceptions.

The azure energy shield generators installed into the Woodsap mechs did not possess too many notable features. The Terrans did not find it worthwhile to invest too much in strengthening the machine’s energy defenses.

The real strength in Woodsap mechs lay in their physical defenses.

That said, the TE Wood used as the main material for the prototype machines was not that much tougher and harder than modern first-class transphasic hyper alloys.

The Woodsap mechs struck by multiple missiles all suffered severe damage to their mech frames.

Fortunately, the test pilots at least ensured that they took as many impacts as possible from the front where their biomechs boasted the thickest armor.

Many hardy layers of transphasic wood got peeled or splintered away in a very short amount of time!

The violent transphasic explosions even managed to dig deeper into the mech frames. More functional biomechanical components became exposed and subsequently suffered severely from the blasts.

At the end, the affected Woodsap mechs either suffered a near-complete loss of frontal armor or became partially crippled!

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