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UNSC/COVIES V EMPIRE - i am going for UNSC/COVIES. I'm thinking more in terms of inovation/tactics/strategy here rather than made up nerd ratings for weapons and EU force powers and Precursers yada yada.
The rebels defeated the Empire - guerilla tactics, espionage, surgical strikes and bold gambits rather than pitched battles. This to me sounds like how the entire UNSC has been operating for the past few decades. ONI,AIs, Preston Cole, Keyes - all thinkers outside of the box. The Empire on the whole seems more Blitzkrieg - over power enemies in pitched battles. You look at the movies and comics and the ship battles seem to be dead in the water - lets see who can take the most damage type fights. UNSC don't have that luxury - Keyes Loop, pre-seeding battle fields with nuclear mines, electronic warfare via AI's [ships being taken over, life support being terminated, engines being stopped, shields turned off, false sensor readings, self destruct sequences being started],use of auto piloted single ships carrying nuclear payloads, using planets to shield/flank etc. I think these types of tactics, especially if the Covenant adopted it in this joint venture would be devastating; especially with their larger ships that are capable of absorbing MACs and NUKEs from dozens of ships and the sniper type ships that cut through several ships stem to stern with ease.
Speaking of thinking outside the box: Chemical warfare. Not saying this is exclusive to Halo, but apart from in the clone wars and i think Legacy era it doesn't get used much; and not in the way i am thinking anyway. The Mona Lisa shows the UNSC have access/experiment on FLOOD. Drop some samples on several Star Wars worlds simultaneously. That would make the Empire have to expend time/resources curtailing outbreaks, it would lose them ships as entire crews are converted - or would force the loss of ships through self termination. This would very quickly decrease the Star Wars numerical advantage and even make it a liability.
I know people have mentioned Star Wars ships shields and given nerd ratings for them, i just don't buy it. They are always getting boarded with ease. In all of the prequels and many comics i believe single ships just fly into the hangar bays of capital ships, the Millenium Falcon managed to hitch a ride on one by magnetising to its hull. If the shielding is that good surely these single fighters would just be vapourised/explode when they crash onto the shields? They dont - so thats a vulnerability i believe would be exploited greatly. Clone troops, rebels - all pretty much base line human, if they can get past the largley manually operated cannons guarding these ships to land on them you best believe that Spartans, Elites and Brutes with their vastly superior reflexes will be able to board them too - in their droves.
I can understand some people saying no Forunners etc. However there are some hefty 'current' Halo things people could bring up: The Knowing, Onyx sentinels, that Forunner crystal that messed with time, Halo array. The Sentinels/moniters, if brought into this would greatly swing this comfortably in Halo's favour. The production power is ridiculous with just ONE Sentinal factory able to produce 14400 sentinels in a day - if you had more than one of those making ONYX Sentinels you could easily outproduce your enemy in terms of troops - clones/people take time to mature/train - the attrition rate would be hard on the Empire.
A mention to force users...Order 66...standard clones did it. I don't see why snipers at the edge of a city or a firing squad couldn't do the same.