97: Chapter 97 Ultimate Individual Combat Power: A New Commander-Level Unit!

After quickly skimming through the Foundry panel, an expression of immense surprise appeared on Su Yang's face.

Because the sheer amount of content and the high modification ceiling had already exceeded his imagination.

The current Lord's Hegemony Trial mainly focuses on the mozi thousand mechanisms tower tech tree as its primary tech tree.

And Su Yang believed that the Foundry's tech tree could fully support an entirely new trial!

If the Imperial Armor Camp, Heavy Equipment Battalion, and others were about upgrading and summoning large-scale forces...

…then the Foundry was about modifying individual combat power, and it had almost no ceiling!

A set of ordinary Imperial Armor could have 3 parts upgraded: the power core, the mech body, and the equipped weapons.

And this was just for the most ordinary set of Imperial Armor on General Li Xin.

There were many other parts that the current Imperial Armor did not have, each looking more exaggerated than the last.

Defensive force fields, propulsion Systems, special payloads, bio-grafting Systems, psionic projection...

He could guess the function of the first few, but the later ones were basically technologies that exceeded Su Yang's understanding.

In addition to upgradeable parts, the Imperial Armor could also be equipped with skill modules; the higher the quality of the Imperial Armor, the more skill modules it could hold.

Skill modules allowed the Imperial Armor to unleash power beyond imagination, and they could be swapped and combined.

The acquisition of skill modules was completely random, and the only known method currently was killing special Tyranid Warriors.

The set of Imperial Armor on General Li Xin, which could only hold one skill module, was evaluated by the System as having no Soul.

Su Yang had not yet seen a description of Imperial Armor with a Soul, nor did he know how to obtain it.

As for what Imperial Armor with a Soul meant, Su Yang reasonably suspected it might just mean exactly what it said.

Smelting the Soul of some creature after death into steel, and then forging the Imperial Armor.

In short, the Foundry System was extremely complex, and he certainly didn't have the conditions to understand it in the short term.

Fortunately, Su Yang didn't intend to understand it all; many things were like that, and he might only have a half-understanding for now.

Only by looking back after gaining some information over a period of time could he discern the truth within.

Currently, the only upgradeable option in the Foundry was General Li Xin's Imperial Armor.

However, Su Yang believed that General Li Xin's current combat power was sufficient, and upgrading the Imperial Armor was not cost-effective.

The Main Base had just been upgraded, and there were many places that required command points, so he decided to keep them for now and allocate them based on the situation.

After reviewing the Foundry panel, all the known upgrades brought by the Level 4 Main Base had been checked.

In terms of Materials, there was a comprehensive upgrade for steel; in terms of fuel, there was an epoch-making Breakthrough for oil.

It also unlocked new troop types, the Heavy Equipment Battalion for building vehicles, and the Foundry for upgrading and modifying Imperial Armor.

As well as a series of basic upgrades like the Imperial Armor Camp, Generals Mansion, mining machines, city walls, and so on.

It could be said that the complexity of the upgrade categories brought about by this Main Base improvement was simply more than the previous two combined!

For a lord, a wide variety of upgrades was a double-edged sword.

More upgrade options meant that the territory's combat power was about to receive a significant boost, but it also meant a huge consumption of resources, time, and command points.

If a lord did not reasonably allocate the resources currently on hand and plan an optimal strategy...

…then situations where resources collapsed and development was interrupted due to haphazard upgrades would occur.

Allocation was always the core of real-time strategy games.

Planning the optimal and strongest development route with limited resources was a compulsory course for all lords.

Based on the situation, Su Yang believed that the two most needed upgrades in the short term were the Generals Mansion and the Imperial Armor Camp.

The Insect Swarm led by the special Tyranid Warriors was already quite powerful, and after fighting Piao Daosi, they would evolve again.

If they engaged them with the team's current configuration, significant casualties might occur.

Therefore, whether taking the initiative to attack or defending passively, Su Yang believed the primary goal was to improve the team's combat power.

The way to improve the team's combat power was to upgrade the Imperial Armor Camp and the Generals Mansion.

Upgrading the Generals Mansion would allow for the summoning of the second general-level unit—General Meng Tian.

Because he needed to defend against the Bug Swarm Tide, Su Yang's highest priority was to upgrade the Generals Mansion and summon General Meng Tian.

General Meng Tian was a famous general in the history of the Qin Dynasty, who resisted the Xiongnu and built the Great Wall, and was known as the Shield of Great Qin.

Currently, the Xenomorph species within the Insect Swarm that posed the greatest threat to the territory was actually the evolved Exterminator.

With the power of those cannons, even if they were hit just once while defending against the Bug Swarm Tide, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Prioritizing the upgrade of the Generals Mansion would allow him to check General Meng Tian's abilities and see if he could effectively defend against the Xenomorph cannons.

After upgrading the Generals Mansion, the next step would be the Imperial Armor Camp.

Besides upgrading and summoning new units, Su Yang also had another goal for upgrading the Imperial Armor Camp—expanding the army.

The BUFF obtained after taking the lord ranking this week was Level 3 Military Power.

It could reduce the resource consumption of all military unit summoning, upgrading, and modification by 30%.

This was a BUFF specifically for mass-producing troops.

To make full use of this BUFF, Su Yang planned to at least double the size of the team within the three days the BUFF lasted.

Thus, the two short-term goals were confirmed.

To achieve these two short-term goals, the most important thing was various types of resources.

Whether it was constructing buildings or summoning units, a large amount of resources was needed.

First was steel; upgrading the Generals Mansion and the Imperial Armor Camp required a total of 200 units of steel.

And it wasn't just these two buildings; subsequent upgrades for the Heavy Equipment Battalion and a series of others would certainly require steel.

Secondly, command points; the most critical resource for summoning general-level units, upgrading troop types, and expanding the army was command points.

Only when command points were sufficient could he summon a large number of soldiers and improve the territory's combat power.

Su Yang opened the resource panel to get an overview of the current situation of all resources within the territory.

[ Territory Resources ]

[ Water Resources: Stock: 1123 units, Production Rate: 300 units/day ]

[ Stone Resources: Stock: 393 units, Production Rate: 180 units/day ]

[ Coal Resources: Stock: 683 units, Production Rate: 255 units/day ]

[ Copper Metal: Stock: 313 units, Production Rate: 180 units/day ]

[ Iron Metal: Stock: 171 units, Production Rate: 150 units/day ]

[ Saltpeter Resources: Stock: 231 units, Production Rate: 75 units/day ]

[ Territory Strategy: Level 1 Power Over the World, Level 1 National Heavy Weaponry ]

[ Territory Buff/Debuff Effects: Level 3 Military Power (Remaining Time: 71:26), Level 4 Gaze of the Abyss (Duration: /) ]

[ command points: 27232 ]

After looking at the panel, Su Yang frowned slightly; the stock of key resources was not optimistic.

Acquiring resources was the most urgent matter at the moment!