Chapter 393

Chapter 393. I Can Do It, If It’s Me! (3)

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The method to counter Round 6 is none other than one of the widely used strategies in both PVP and PVE in the past.

The strategy is based on the fact that destroyers and patrol ships are smaller compared to other ships, giving them higher mobility—or in other words, a higher “evasion rate.”

This strategy is famously known as the “Small Ship Meat Shield Spam Strategy.”

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Title: What’s the Small Ship Meat Shield Spam Strategy?

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Image of a toad with a question mark]

So, you just mass-produce small ships and use them as meat shields?

Honestly, even after being transported here, I’ve only been messing around with superhumans, so I have no idea how to manage a fleet.

Comments:

– [Who came up with such a trashy name?]

– [Oh, you mean the condom strategy?]

– [Why is the name so weird?] (Author)

– [It’s nothing special. The person who came up with the strategy called it “Meat Shield Spam,” but others thought it was too long and started calling it that.]

– [But honestly, “condom” fits pretty well lololol]

– [They use patrol ships like literal condoms to block enemy attacks so that precious battleships or dreadnoughts don’t get hit.]

– [LOLOLOLOLOL]

– [The person who came up with the strategy is crying right now.]

– [Do you even remember who came up with it?]

– [No clue. Probably someone who quit a long time ago.]

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Even though most users were casually butchering the name of a strategy someone had worked hard to create, the important thing was that I planned to invest all the points lost from battleships and cruiser battleships in Round 5 into producing small ships.

-*Screeeeech!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen the regular shipyards running at full capacity.”

“Yeah, definitely.”

Following my intentions, the five regular shipyards provided by the base and outposts were…

Working like crazy, not wasting a single second, as if they were determined to churn out ships at an insane pace.

Of course, it looked like they could produce hundreds of patrol ships in a single day, but…

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**Fleet Status**

Total Points: 885/950 Points

Dreadnought: 1 ship, 90 points per ship = 90 points

Aircraft Carrier: 3 ships, 70 points per ship = 210 points

Special Battleship: 2 ships, 65 points per ship = 130 points

Battleship: 3 ships, 40 points per ship = 120 points

Aetheric Submarine: 1 ship, 50 points per ship = 50 points

Light Aircraft Carrier: 0 ships, 40 points per ship = 0 points

Cruiser Battleship: 3 ships, 30 points per ship = 90 points

Heavy Cruiser: 0 ships, 10 points per ship = 0 points

Light Cruiser: 20 ships, 6 points per ship = 120 points

Destroyer: 0 ships, 3 points per ship = 0 points

Escort Ship: 0 ships, 1.5 points per ship = 0 points

Patrol Ship: 0 ships, 1 point per ship = 0 points

Resource Mining Ship: 30 ships, 1.5 points per ship = 45 points

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“So, it’s less than 100 points in total?”

“Well, we’ve had a fleet exceeding the point limit from the beginning.”

Even though we lost one battleship and two cruiser battleships permanently in Round 5, as Jessica mentioned, we had already been maintaining a fleet that exceeded the point limit using dreadnoughts and Bayern.

“72 points…”

“That’s exactly enough for 10 destroyers and 22 patrol ships.”

“Huh, so my spam is only 32 ships?”

Unfortunately, realizing that only 32 ships could be produced to act as meat shields and draw aggro from the enemy fleet, I came to understand just how much I had been relying on “mercenaries” all this time. It made me realize how bad my habits had become.

And around this time, as I was talking about points, Jessica suddenly brought up something she had forgotten.

“By the way, Commander, didn’t you say the Ouroboros-class was worth 150 points when you saw it in the gallery before?”

“Huh?”

“Then why did it drop to 65 points when you used it?”

“Oh, that?”

I knew the reason, so I didn’t think to mention it, but now that I thought about it, it was indeed a curious point. So, I decided to explain it briefly.

“That’s just the gallery folks misunderstanding things.”

“Huh?”

“From the start, it was a ‘fleet’ worth 125 points, which is 2.5 times the 50 points of Nerañzara, not a ‘ship’ that came out.”

“…Ah.”

Right.

From the beginning, Ouroboros didn’t pop out as a single ship, but came out as a set including its ‘escort fleet.’

“So, including its escort fleet, it came out worth 125 points, which is why there were many small ships in the enemy fleet at that time.”

“I see.”

Perhaps it was because she felt like she had finally solved a long-standing worry.

As if to prove that Jessica was in a good mood, her black rabbit ears were twitching and bouncing around energetically.

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And about three days later.

“Commander, the 3rd Battleship and the 1st Cruiser Battleship that entered the dock have rolled out.”

“Oh.”

“And as you instructed, 10 Destroyers and 22 Patrol Ships, under the command of Ms. Belial, have somehow completed the basic leveling work.”

“Good, very good.”

“As for the Dreadnought and Bayern-Class, since they were in the sofa, we finished repairing them by attaching one Resource Mining Ship each.”

“Nice.”

Finally, as all the ships were placed on standby, I began to make all the final preparations.

“Did you call all the small ships to the base?”

“Yes, Commander.”

“Then, for the small ships, just make sure their armor is enough to not get taken out by CIWS or fighter missiles, and focus entirely on mobility specialization.”

“Just for evasion, right?”

Since the small ships were only meant to disperse the enemy fleet’s firepower.

We gave up on firepower and armor, and set up their equipment and enhancements to purely evade enemy attacks.

On the other hand, for my main ships, led by the Dreadnought.

“Hreðsvelgr, Kraken, and Ouroboros will keep their current equipment settings.”

“No modifications?”

“They’re already optimized. Instead, all the other Battleships and Cruiser Battleships below the Dreadnought will be armor-enhanced.”

“Got it.”

Although we don’t know how the enemy will come out, we roughly grasped the enemy’s ‘firepower’ in the 5th round…

So, it’s basic to slap on enough armor enhancements to block that.

“Commander, what about the fleet barrier?”

“Ah, right, that.”

We attached the ‘Fleet Barrier’ obtained from the last gacha to the Dreadnought, to prevent things like the ‘simultaneous bombardment of 10 annihilation ships’ I saw in the gallery post earlier.

We made every effort to ensure that no absurd bad luck would come my way.

Of course, seeing me work so hard, Jessica left one last warning.

“Commander, I really want to ask one last thing.”

“What is it, say it.”

“Just a few days ago, you were too scared to do anything after the 5th round because you were afraid the ships would explode. How did you suddenly find the courage?”

“…Didn’t you see it right next to me?”

When I looked at her with a dumbfounded expression, Jessica shook her head and said again.

“That’s not what I meant, it’s just that at the beginning, you weren’t suspicious…”

“Huh?”

“It’s like you suddenly got inspired and started opposing what other commanders in the gallery were saying.”

“Ah, that’s what you meant.”

And I, in response to Jessica’s words, fell into deep thought about how to explain the feeling I had then, and still feel now.

After a while.

“…Yeah, this should be enough to explain.”

“What is it?”

“I can do it, I can!!!”

With a confident attitude, I decided to boldly express my thoughts.

Of course, Jessica, who received this attitude of mine…

“Wow, that sounds like something people who will suffer terrible consequences and despair in the future would often say.”

“What.”

…gave a very sharp evaluation.