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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Super EC Nate
If you were the covenent, would you send down thousands of dropships unescorted? They sent down THOUSANDS of fighters and banshees with them. How could isolated bases defeat a concentrated force of great firepower?
Proof of the banshees and seraph escort? Again, it'd take them TIME, of several hours at least, to reach Fleet command or other targets. By then even a trio of frigates could be sent to clear them out.
Keyes (If memory is right being the person talking about it) mentions ONLY dropships on sensors, even then only hundreds. UNSC Air Assets for Reach numbered 11,050.
I'm sorry, but for them to effortlessly land, deploy massive ground forces in that number, AND take out command and the generators within 2-3 hours is, frankly, retarded.
No it's not retarded to see that Reach fall in a day or two; you forget one thing about covenant- their technology.
It was supposed to show that Covenant are unstoppable alien genocide against the Humanity. And even with hundreds of ships (it also can be meant as thousands or more, since it says "hundred(s)" that would easily overwhelm the air assets or plasma bombardments from covenant fleet destroying various air bases.
And you do realize that Reach's fleet already suffered heavy losses, right? Especially from covenant fleet and their supercruiser's energy projectors in 100,000km killing any UNSC ships in one shots? Frankly, I doubt that UNSC Fleet had enough ships left to refocus to eliminate those dropships >.>
Come on, don't forget about that 3:1 kill ratio for UNSC and Covenant. I can give you several examples-
Several battles in early 2525 to 2543-
Second Battle of Harvest
Battle-group X-Ray: 40 warships fought against a covenant super-destroyer. Guess how many UNSC lost to that ship? 13.
Or,
Battle of Alpha Aurigae
There was about 117 UNSC warships fought against 12 covenant ships. Guess, how many UNSC ships has lost to that 12? 37.
And,
Battle of Psi Serpentis
Admiral Cole with his 162 warships fights against 300 covenant ships. It ended victory for UNSC but, it has heavy losses: over 70 unsc ships lost in matters of hours.
I gave you several examples how this space battle would looked for UNSC vs Covenant. Do you see that 3:1 Kill ratio in those battles, right? Exactly.
That's why Reach, being fortress were easily taken down in a day or two, while ground battles lasted about a week to two. Covenant had like, 314 warships while Reach Defense Fleet had 150 warships with 20 ODPs. Can you see any hope that Reach would won the battle? No!
Reach would be won if UNSC had superior numbers against the Covenant fleet, while suffering massive losses.
[Edited on 05.31.2011 7:51 PM PDT]