- mojeda101
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
I just find it stupid that people think the Covenant and UNSC could match up, they'd get exterminated, casualties for the Empire wouldn't even come close to those of the Covenant and UNSC.
UNSC pre-war: 2000 ships
Covenant pre-war: Tens of thousands
Imperial Navy :HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
The numbers alone give them an advantage, don't even get me started on the Firepower. If the Empire were to launch an Invasion on Earth, I can say we would indeed lose a few ISDII's to the SMAC's stationed around the planet, it takes about 3-4 shots to down one, and since Earth has about 300 of them, we will have some casualties, although it will eventually be an utter failure, the Turbolasers will gut home fleet and the SMAC's like Swiss cheese.
I'm not even sure it takes 3 SMAC rounds to down an ISDII anymore, since they were immensely weakened by the data pads on Reach. Orbital Defense MAC guns are 51.6 gigatons per shot now(they used to be 9.98 Teratons), and those can punch through 2 covenant ships and cripple a third.
If they are 51.6 gigatons, it would take dozens, if not hundreds of SMAC shots to down an ISDII.
Homefleet would be like an army shooting at kids.
Shipboard MAC guns are now only 1.19 megatons per shot (they used to be 1.17 teratons) while Turbolaser shot from an Acclamator have 200,000 megatons or 200 gigatons, which has 12 guns and has a firing rate of roughly 60 shots per minute with a range of 180,000,000km.
If the UNSC wasn't nerfed in Reach by the Data pads, MAC's would have been five times stronger than a Turbolaser, a teraton is 1,000,000 megatons, although now they are only 1/200th of a turbolasers strength(REALLY NERFED HARD)
But lets play it as if they weren't nerfed, still wouldn't be a problem, homefleet's MAC's would be out of range to fire on the Imperial fleet, MAC's can't fire at a range of 180,000,000km. They don't have multiple cannons that fire at a rate of one shot per minute either.
Lets say they were in range, Acclamator shields can withstand 16.7 teratons of force, it would take about 16 hits from Homefleet's ships or 2 shots from the SMACs.
All this time I've been talking about Acclamators, I haven't even gotten to the ISDII, An Imperial II Star Destroyer has 8 main octuple barreled guns, but it has 36 other turbolasers scattered across it's surface, and that doesn't include the 100+ point defense guns.
If this were a land battle, the Empire would have too many troops. During the Clone wars, the Republic had around 10 quadrillion clones. The ICS puts the Imperial army in the quintillions and Lord Vader said the stormtroopers outnumber the clones by 100 to 1. Do you realize how many troops that is?
No competition.