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Subject: Why does the Covenant even bother sending ground troops?

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Read Title...So anyways if the Covenant can just glass planets from orbit why do they send ground troops?

  • 06.22.2011 3:21 PM PDT

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Hmmmm! Good question!

Well I think the whole glassing thing is more a holy ritual once the planet has been purged of "heretics"!

So maybe the ground side of things is to rid the planet of heretics and then the glassing is like a prayer to commemorate the cleansing!

  • 06.22.2011 3:24 PM PDT

Forerunner Artifacts.

  • 06.22.2011 3:24 PM PDT

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That too

  • 06.22.2011 3:25 PM PDT

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Often, they are sent in to retrieve Forerunner artifacts and secure surrounding areas.

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Also, as Dustin (below) said, they can't glass the ENTIRE planet. It was calculated to take a little more than 30 years of non-stop glassing to finish the job.

[Edited on 06.22.2011 3:28 PM PDT]

  • 06.22.2011 3:26 PM PDT

the main reason is to take out major threats to the glassing like ship launch points missle launchers and communications if these targets arent taken out then they can be a threat to covy ships

  • 06.22.2011 6:03 PM PDT
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Semper Fictor

Well put yourself in the boots of a honor hungry elite. Would you want some ship master taking all the honor? or would you like to get on the ground, take some names, and kick a lot of -Blam!-?

  • 06.22.2011 6:08 PM PDT

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Different reasons:

On Reach, they needed a ground invasion to take out the generators for the orbital MACs and then to raid Castle Base to find the Forerunner artifact.

On Harvest, they were looking for Forerunner artifacts.

On Earth, they were finding the portal to The Ark and apparently were looking for other things (in Ghosts of Onyx Blue Team was doing missions to stop the Covenant in various places around Earth).

On Sigma Octanus IV (spelling may be off there), they were looking for the rock in the museum so that they could locate the Halo rings.

On Onyx, they were trying to find the portal to the Shield World.

It seemingly always had a purpose.

  • 06.22.2011 6:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: KoO 101
Different reasons:

On Reach, they needed a ground invasion to take out the generators for the orbital MACs and then to raid Castle Base to find the Forerunner artifact.

On Harvest, they were looking for Forerunner artifacts.

On Earth, they were finding the portal to The Ark and apparently were looking for other things (in Ghosts of Onyx Blue Team was doing missions to stop the Covenant in various places around Earth).

On Sigma Octanus IV (spelling may be off there), they were looking for the rock in the museum so that they could locate the Halo rings.

On Onyx, they were trying to find the portal to the Shield World.

It seemingly always had a purpose.

there seems to be forerunner artifacts everywhere.

  • 06.22.2011 7:15 PM PDT

I think its a form of holy ritual.

The Return seemed to imply that Covies engage in ground operations to prove themselves worthy in single combat, followed through with immolating the entire planet (which was debunked by the datapads which was in turn later debunked by the ending of Reach and the map Condemned.

  • 06.22.2011 7:25 PM PDT

Because in the games they are trying to find something, to lead them to activate halo.

  • 06.22.2011 7:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I think its a form of holy ritual.

The Return seemed to imply that Covies engage in ground operations to prove themselves worthy in single combat


92% of the time, the Covenant get slaughtered on the ground and in the air, they get severely butthurt, retreat to space, and just glass the planet.


Posted by: ROBERTO jh
followed through with immolating the entire planet (which was debunked by the datapads which was in turn later debunked by the ending of Reach and the map Condemned.

640+ ships were at Reach to glass it. What was the Assembly's estimate for the amount of ships needed?

  • 06.22.2011 7:41 PM PDT

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The prophets are trying to thin out the grunt population.

  • 06.22.2011 7:45 PM PDT

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"Happiness is like glass, you might not always notice it but if you change your view and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light."

Occasionally the covenant can't glass everyone because they were too deep underground and have to send ground forces to destroy them.

  • 06.22.2011 7:56 PM PDT

they do not seek to destroy everything, they seek the relics for their religion, just like portals and data

they must investigate the zone to know if theres something of quality and helpfull to them, like moas

  • 06.22.2011 8:24 PM PDT


Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I think its a form of holy ritual.

The Return seemed to imply that Covies engage in ground operations to prove themselves worthy in single combat, followed through with immolating the entire planet (which was debunked by the datapads which was in turn later debunked by the ending of Reach and the map Condemned.


I'm not sure what you're saying exactly in that last part. Are you saying that you believe the Covenant have the power to glass an entire planet, that's what it sounds like anyway. And I don't see what the ending to Halo Reach would have to do with what you're saying... :/
And I wouldn't ever take the appearance of multiplayer maps as an entirely accurate source of canon.

  • 06.22.2011 8:45 PM PDT

I'll have the roast duck . . . with the mango salsa.

I always wondered why they just didn't work on a super-bug and cause a pandemic that they were immune to. Then everything would be intact sans annoying humans.

  • 06.22.2011 8:58 PM PDT
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De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

Too much time and work, far too many things that could go wrong, and would completely devastate the Sangheili honor.

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I always wondered why they just didn't work on a super-bug and cause a pandemic that they were immune to. Then everything would be intact sans annoying humans.

  • 06.22.2011 10:40 PM PDT

Well i've been told one of the reason they send in ground troops, is to cut the power to the MACs, then they glass the planet.

  • 06.23.2011 2:44 AM PDT
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Because that's what make's a damn good game! Although, if they just used there glassing ships...I'm sure the UNSC would rush to create loads of frigates to combat them in atmosphere rather then spend resources making guns and ground vehicles.

  • 06.23.2011 2:48 AM PDT


Posted by: jasonstigall
I always wondered why they just didn't work on a super-bug and cause a pandemic that they were immune to. Then everything would be intact sans annoying humans.


For one thing I'm sure the Sangheili would consider that below their honor, and another reason is too much can go wrong when engineering a virus or other similar bio-weapons.

  • 06.23.2011 9:23 AM PDT
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To collect any Forrunner Artifiacts probably.

  • 06.23.2011 9:26 AM PDT
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To save money on wages.........................come on think about it they are rubbish so they are better off getting rid of them instead of paying them to do nothing

  • 06.23.2011 9:37 AM PDT

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