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Posted by: grey101
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Posted by: grey101
so if high charity has hundreds of these ships that alone could take out 100 UNSC ships then why didn't just spare 15 of them and have them travel around destroying us?
they have HUNDREDS of these things, so they should have one both space and ground engagements if they just let go 15- 25 of them.
Is there any definite size given for a Supercarrier though? That's the big question. I tried looking it up on Halopedia, but it looks from the discussions on the pages that they retconned the size to match Reach or something. Do the books list any definite size for them, or do they list multiple sizes?
If it's the latter then I would guess that there is no definite size for a Supercarrier and there are several different size with the Long Night of Solace being amongst the largest.
Also, Grey, regardless of how strong the LNoS shields are, its size would give it by far the largest range of any Covenant ship we've seen, and because of it's positioning it has the advantage, it will see any ship coming for it and be able to pick it or its attacks off before it can even reach the ship.
Now, as for why they would not see a wide degree of fielding, it stands to reason that ship that size would not be able to maneuver fast enough in a real fight, which is why I think they would primarily have defensive duty at High Charity, essentially functioning as the SMACs would for the UNSC.
I have no knowledge on classes since this is the first one we have seen, but FS clearly states there are hundreds of Supercarriers and cruisers orbiting high charity.
You somewhat contradicted yourself. If the size alone is what gives them good range then they would still be able to take out ships from range if they were fielded. and it wouldn't matter if they could move or not because "supposedly" the shields on this thing can hold up 100 macs and everything else ships would give it.
Indeed so, I find it rubbish to find that SC had shielding capacity to shrug off 100 MACs, probably few SMACs, thousands of Archer missiles, and finally, Nuclear Warheads! And, most of covenants shields were calculated that they cannot withstand over 30 megaton of TNT. And some people have been saying that it took 27 ships combined fire to take out a "superdestroyer", which is horrendously wrong type of ship. It's super battle-ship, at Harvest. If you guys had paid little more attention at comics around Cole Preston... sigh.