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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: manwith
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: manwith
Posted by: Pewter
The Forerunners killing off the Precursors; wait wrong war.
The Forerunners not actually treating the flood as a threat until it was too late; oops wrong war again.
The Didact not giving the order to have the remaining Flood rounded up, permanently sealed inside a shield world, dropping said shield world into a black hole, and then putting a Halo at the edge maintaining a quarintine. While again this is the wrong war, why he let the flood survive boggles the mind.
Not having more defenses around/on Reach. While I'm not asking for enough defenses that would rival Cadia, I did expect there to be more in terms of cities, factories, bases, defenses, and Nukes. Bejusus man, this is supposed to be the fortress of humanity amongst the stars, not an Agri world.
Yeah, I don't think the problem was that Reach wasn't properly defended, the problem was that they were too confident with Reach. After all it wasn't until after the fall of Reach when they learned 20 ODPs simply ain't enough against hundreds of Covie ships.
Reach was a great lesson for them. Hypothetically speaking, If they had found Earth first instead of Reach, chances are humanity may have had a better chance against the Covenant if they had pulled all their remaining forces at Reach and build up 300 ODPs there after Earth's demise.
It's not that they were too confident, in honesty they started losing moral.
They knew it was only a matter of time before the covenant would come, they new that they would win, and they knew only Reach and earth were really left for humanity.
Just like Earth Most of reach's forces were out of system and the ships that were there we in-between shifts, the covenant picked the best time. The only Reason reach was lost was due to the "sniping" ship, even then the covie would have just came back for round two.
No matter what we say nothing could have been done to truly save reach, unless we had 200 more MACs and 500+ ships.
I was always under the impression the UNSC thought that Reach literally could not fall.
Anyway, I am pretty sure the UNSC would have won the battle fair easily against 315 Covenant ships with 300 SMACs, 200+ ships and the nuclear minefield they had there that destroyed a decent number of ships during the battle.
The main important difference between Reach and Earth is that at Reach they were not prepared and it was a total surprise, and the situation at Earth was complete opposite.
No, Halsey said it her self that it was only a matter of time before the covenant found them and Earth. the whole government felt that way, which is one of the reasons the spartan program went public.
So? and after the battle they would be left with 20-30 crippled ships and have a good amount of MACs offline. then the covenant would come in for round two and they would lose. As i said it nothing would have changed.
It was clearly stated in GoO that earth was caught with ships in-between shift rotation and MACs offline.