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Subject: How would you have fought the Covenant

You are a Colonel in the UNSC Navy commanding several ships orbiting Reach during the Battle, what would be your tactics to take out the hundreds of Covenant ships that are attacking Reach? Could you hold them off? Use the resources that the Fall of Reach gave.

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  • 06.26.2011 10:20 PM PDT
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I'd pull a Leroy Jenkins. Classic battle maneuver.

  • 06.26.2011 10:29 PM PDT

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Why would a colonel be in charge of several navy ships in orbit?

  • 06.26.2011 10:32 PM PDT

Ied run like hell

  • 06.26.2011 10:35 PM PDT

EDIT: Nevermind.

[Edited on 06.26.2011 10:39 PM PDT]

  • 06.26.2011 10:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Why would a colonel be in charge of several navy ships in orbit?


Haha. He's got you there A colonel is any army/marine rank, and the navy equivalent, probably a Captain, would be in charge of most likely only one ship.

But, to answer the question, I would try my best to get boarding teams on to other ships, hopefully one that is more powerful than mine. UNSC are less disadvantaged in terrestrial fighting, and terrestrial-like fighting, like boarding actions. In order to get my ship (most likely a frigate or destroyer, considering my rank) that close, I'd probably stick it close with other frigates or destroyers and form small hunting packs and when I happen to get close, send boarders.

[Edited on 06.26.2011 11:08 PM PDT]

  • 06.26.2011 11:06 PM PDT

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.

Remember the civilians in Marathon? That's what I would do.

  • 06.26.2011 11:19 PM PDT

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  • 06.26.2011 11:24 PM PDT

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I would pick up as many marines on the ground as I can, & ask Cortana to find the best jump coordinates to follow. Leaving & sacrificing all civilian lives on Reach, since honestly none of them are going to survive. If I did that, Cortana would end up bringing a fleet of UNSC ships to Installation 04, where we can pull guerrilla tactics & destroy Halo much sooner. We would also have a hand full of Spartans or more, since we evacuated most of the UNSC forces on the ground at Reach (We "couldn't find" Noble team, so, oh well). In the end, the events of Ghosts of Onyx would probably still happen, only sooner since the UNSC ditched Reach.
So during the destruction of Halo, all UNSC ships get off the ground before it explodes. The Covenant ships have all landed but a few were in orbit. So most of them are destroyed, evening the battlefield & we win a space battle. Now, we follow the Cole Protocol back to Earth, with Captain Keyes & the Chief heading back to Reach to save Dr. Halsey, which they do. So they sneak behind enemy forces & rescue her & the spartans assisting her. We follow the Cole Protocol back to Earth. Now, with a few spartans, (at least 30) we easily fend off Covenant forces on the ground, & send them all to fight (starting Halo 2), but they don't go with the Chief to Installation 05. So when Halo 3 starts, we still have all the spartans (maybe one or two dies...) & we easily fend off the ground forces of brutes & flood. They all go to the Ark, & wreck the moment they touch the ground (Imagine every mission on Halo 3, with 29 other spartans right behind you). So Sgt. Johnson & Miranda Keyes would survive for sure, & Chief would go to rescue Cortana by himself, since we wont risk other Spartans dying. So now that he does it, we simply nuke the control room, instantly killing 343 Guilty Spark & the control room, & the end mission would never happen. So basically, it's a happy ending, except for the fact that we killed the Arbiter. So, we never made friends with the elites. Lol

Edit: I'm an Admiral

Edit: The elites possibly come back for revenge...Since they came back after the war, to destroy the rest of the Covenant (The Blood Covenant)

[Edited on 06.26.2011 11:40 PM PDT]

  • 06.26.2011 11:38 PM PDT

I wake up to find myself
After all these years
And where all the time has gone
Still seems so unclear

I'd evacuate the planet and detonate the NOVA when they landed to glass it. Mission accomplished, -blam!-es.

  • 06.27.2011 1:20 AM PDT
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  • 06.27.2011 2:02 AM PDT

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NOVA bomb everything.

  • 06.27.2011 2:34 AM PDT

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Posted by: xecnalxes117
I would pick up as many marines on the ground as I can, & ask Cortana to find the best jump coordinates to follow. Leaving & sacrificing all civilian lives on Reach, since honestly none of them are going to survive. If I did that, Cortana would end up bringing a fleet of UNSC ships to Installation 04, where we can pull guerrilla tactics & destroy Halo much sooner. We would also have a hand full of Spartans or more, since we evacuated most of the UNSC forces on the ground at Reach (We "couldn't find" Noble team, so, oh well). In the end, the events of Ghosts of Onyx would probably still happen, only sooner since the UNSC ditched Reach.
So during the destruction of Halo, all UNSC ships get off the ground before it explodes. The Covenant ships have all landed but a few were in orbit. So most of them are destroyed, evening the battlefield & we win a space battle. Now, we follow the Cole Protocol back to Earth, with Captain Keyes & the Chief heading back to Reach to save Dr. Halsey, which they do. So they sneak behind enemy forces & rescue her & the spartans assisting her. We follow the Cole Protocol back to Earth. Now, with a few spartans, (at least 30) we easily fend off Covenant forces on the ground, & send them all to fight (starting Halo 2), but they don't go with the Chief to Installation 05. So when Halo 3 starts, we still have all the spartans (maybe one or two dies...) & we easily fend off the ground forces of brutes & flood. They all go to the Ark, & wreck the moment they touch the ground (Imagine every mission on Halo 3, with 29 other spartans right behind you). So Sgt. Johnson & Miranda Keyes would survive for sure, & Chief would go to rescue Cortana by himself, since we wont risk other Spartans dying. So now that he does it, we simply nuke the control room, instantly killing 343 Guilty Spark & the control room, & the end mission would never happen. So basically, it's a happy ending, except for the fact that we killed the Arbiter. So, we never made friends with the elites. Lol

Edit: I'm an Admiral

Edit: The elites possibly come back for revenge...Since they came back after the war, to destroy the rest of the Covenant (The Blood Covenant)


+9000.

  • 06.27.2011 2:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: xecnalxes117

That's a distinct interpretation. Although a lot of it is with hindsight. I enjoyed reading that.

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  • 06.27.2011 5:27 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dustin 6047
Have a quick, silent, undetectable ship armed with a NOVA bomb at all times. Once the Covenant fleet pops up, send the ship (I'm guessing it would be a Prowler) to suicide bomb the Covenant. Then send the fleet in to feed on the rest. Hopefully atleast one Covenant ship survives so it can be captured. And then use Cortana or some smart AI to extract the location of High Charity. Load the Covenant ship up with a NOVA bomb and replace Cortana with a dumb AI to detenate the NOVA after the slipjump. Then Unyielding Hierophant is destroyed how it was in the book. There, no major Covenant resistence left. Do I win?
No, because you do know that you would most likely be destroying most of reach with the NOVA bomb, right?

You'd need to give them a big enough distraction, much like the one Cole gave, and lead all or most of all the Covenant ships far away from the planet for something like this to actually work.

  • 06.27.2011 5:59 AM PDT
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I would personally introduce a particle of red matter into the planet's core, destabilizing it's electromagnetic field and thus eliminating all forces by pulling them into the resulting black rift.

Or, we could simply blast the vent core...

  • 06.27.2011 6:13 AM PDT