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Posted by: Docterweegee
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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Docterweegee
There was only 20 orbital macs ( i think), They were probably in more important areas of reach, I don't think some farm land is worth pertecting.
All 20 were in a single location as well.
People -blam!- at them not shooting down the LNOS or showing up in that mission? Well it's literally called the Long Night of Solace was on the other side of the planet from the super-macs.
So, what you're saying, is that the most powerful weapon in the UNSC arsenal can easily be completely circumvented by the Covenant, yet it still took almost a month for them to take the planet, and they still fed countless ships at the MACs for no reason?
You're also implying that the UNSC is dumb enough to make their super weapons immovable, expecting the Covenant to be stupid enough to rush into them headfirst ala Empire Strikes Back?
Come on.
They did...
First of all, ODP's are not all put together in one cluster; they would be spread out enough to cover at the very least a large section of the planet.
Aside from that, give me a quote where it says that the ODP's cannot be moved. They have engines that allow them to rotate and fire in different directions, it would seem entirely plausible they can also move to fire from a different location.
Why would the Covenant need to kill the ODP's at all? They could simply land on the uncovered portion of the planet, easily overrun the generators, and never have to fight them at all.
As they do in Reach. But, for some reason, the Covenant was stupid enough to wait until their main fleet arrived, suicidally charged the ODP's, dropped troops at either pole, and THEN took the Generators. This is why the two plots cannot co-exist. Both sides would need to make laughably horrible decisions, to the point it isn't even plausible anymore.
If Bungie wants to dump tFoR, then fine. They should say that's what their doing, and do it. Not insist they somehow stick together, when they don't.
[Edited on 04.25.2011 6:40 PM PDT]