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Subject: Human's answer to the Banshee?
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Many vechiles can find a "twin" in both Human and Covenant world
Example:
Worthog - Shadow
Pelican - Drop Ship
Longsword - Phantom
Scorpion - Wraith

But what is the human "twin" of the Covenant Banshee. Will there be a flying aircraft, we will could use in Halo 2? I hope so - what do you think?

  • 07.25.2004 4:48 AM PDT
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I dont think there should be an "answer" to every vehicle, and its not known if there will be for this one. If there is, then I would imagine it to be the Skyhawk (Is that the right name? I couldnt remember for sure) which is described in Halo: The Fall of Reach

  • 07.25.2004 4:50 AM PDT
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Yes it was a Skyhawk.

  • 07.25.2004 4:51 AM PDT
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Oh, and so you know. the Pelican would counter the Phantom/regular dropship, and the Longsword would counter the Seraph.

  • 07.25.2004 4:52 AM PDT
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In the movies, and books the Humans have tended to use the Longswords for near on everything (note the bombing run in New Mombasa in the E3 2003 demo). A smaller light fighter could be good, but the Banshee was more just a powered glider than anything else, and it doesnt really fit how most of the Human weaponry are more heavy handed than something like that.

  • 07.25.2004 4:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: Desolation
Oh, and so you know. the Pelican would counter the Phantom/regular dropship, and the Longsword would counter the Seraph.


Oh yeah...sorry. About that Skyhawk....well i didnt know coz i have not read the books.
Thanx for the help!

  • 07.25.2004 4:53 AM PDT

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The whole point of the covenant is that they have crazy strange unfamiliar vehicles whereas the humans have familar generic vehicles. If the covenant used the same vehicles as the humans then that will be not the case anymore.

They don't need an equal for everything.

  • 07.25.2004 4:54 AM PDT
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Your welcome. You should read the books if you can find them because they give lots of info about the whole "Halo story"

  • 07.25.2004 4:55 AM PDT
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do we know if pelicans are flyable? and will they have the chin guns?

  • 07.25.2004 4:57 AM PDT
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well actually i made a topic about that i cant find the books, here in Denmark and it's so stupid. Grrrrrr!

  • 07.25.2004 4:57 AM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan 1337
do we know if pelicans are flyable? and will they have the chin guns?


can't fly them.

  • 07.25.2004 4:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: ash55
The whole point of the covenant is that they have crazy strange unfamiliar vehicles whereas the humans have familar generic vehicles. If the covenant used the same vehicles as the humans then that will be not the case anymore.

They don't need an equal for everything.


I'm not saying that they have to be equal, just that we also have a light assult aircraft (which i mean is like the banshee). It could be as the F-16 we have today

  • 07.25.2004 4:59 AM PDT

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Yes I see what you mean. After all we both got to have an aerial vehicle in real life but rather than it being the equivelant, it should be simply an Aerial vehicle whether its single seated or like a flying warthog.

  • 07.25.2004 5:01 AM PDT
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Yes, thats what i mean!

  • 07.25.2004 5:04 AM PDT

SB-117

Well you said "humans answer to the banshee"

  • 07.25.2004 5:06 AM PDT
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pelican-unflyable
longsword-that's a space fighter, not supposed to dogfight with banshees
skyhawk-possibility, and for those who say it's unfair, i'd just like to point out that the covenant obviously will have numerical supiority, with perhaps 4 banshees to every one skyhawk.

  • 07.25.2004 5:30 AM PDT