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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Pipboy 3050
Posted by: grey101
What is the point of this stupid thread?
and the point of reach losing the planet in "one day" was to show how strong the covenant are. The game completely undermined that and made the covenant look far more stupid than they are.
Not your best day, pal.
One month is short enough for the fall of reach to still be a complete and utter shock. 1 month isn't that long.
Today is actually one of my better days.
1 month is far too long. The covenant beat the UNSC in space 99 percent of the time. so explain how reach could survive 1 month without a fleet.
It wasn't even a month, it was two weeks, at the most. The events of the game span a whole month, but the Battle of Reach didn't really officially start until about 12-14th of August. Much like in WWII there was a space of time that is still counted as the beginning of the war, but neither the Germans or Allies really did anything to each other.
What makes you think that Reach had no fleet? We know for a fact it did, if you're referring to Dot's statement on the LNoS mission she's talking about reinforcements arriving. And even in the book (which only had the FoPJ) the Battle should have lasted far long than a couple of hours, counting all UNSC assets at the battle they were at the very least equal to the Covenant forces in strength and also factoring in such brilliant commanders as Keyes and other greats. Now with the timeline of Halo: Reach added to TFoR it now makes perfect sense for Reach to fall in a couple hours on the 30th as the Covenant and UNSC had been fighting for several days already, and the arrival of the Fleet of Particular Justice completely tipped the scales in the Covenant's favor.
no fleet as in after the covenant wiped it out.
Your trying to even it out which is the problem.
I don;t understand why 10 years later people still don't realize that humanity is weaker in space to the covenant. In all honesty even if humanity out number the covenant slightly i would still put money on the covenant due to the types of ships that they sent to reach.
therefore even if they had the same amount of forces i again would still bet on the covenant. becuase once the macs are down (swarm with dropships) it's over.
You can have the bias of trying to protect humanity but no matter what you try to say the covenant will always win in space when it comes to a true legitimate engagement unless highly outnumbered.
No one's saying they would last a month with the UNSC's space defenses down, what ever gave you that idea?
Just because you are stronger, numerically or just stronger in general, does not mean that victory is automatically and easily assured. The Covenant would win the Battle of Reach regardless, but it only makes the Covenant look preposterously over-powered having them completely take Reach in a mere 2 hours and makes the UNSC look like a bunch of senile, bumbling fools.
The timeline laid out by Reach is far more realistic for both sides, taking Reach would be no cake-walk, no matter how powerful your forces are.