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Posted by: ShadowSpy117
Battle Scenario: UNSC Fleet of 100 Estimated Ships Engages Covenant Assault Carrier Long Night Solace and at least 3-10 Covenant Corvettes.
Estimated UNSC Ship Rosters:
60 Frigates, 20 Corvettes, 19 Halcyon/Marathon Class Cruisers, 1 UNSC Supercarrier Trafalgar.
Covenant Ship Rosters:
3-10 Covenant Corvettes, 1 Assault Carrier
Battle: A few thousand miles away from the Assault Carrier.
UNSC Fleet lying in wait behind one of Reach's Moons.
If the UNSC were being smart, they would have 10-15 Frigates jump in and fight the Corvettes and possibly spread them thin enough for the Primary Assault force to jump in from behind one of Reach's moons.
The Trafalgar would still be hiding behind the Moon with 6 Frigates and 2 Cruisers. When, the primary assault force of 39 Frigates, 20 UNSC Corevettes, and 17 Cruisers arrives they would send the Corvettes flying in an full speed deploying stealth mines in a line that they will soon make the Assault fall into.
Assuming the Covenant Corvettes Are destroyed because of Concentrated fire from frigates and Cruisers, the LNOS will be dishing out it's full arsenal and would've taken out around 11 frigates and 9 Cruisers. As a distraction, the UNSC use a bluff radiation emission to make the Covenant Think a big nuke is a about to go off behind them, thus making the LNOS lurch forward at alarming speed in an effort to avoid the seemingly real explosion inadvertently leading them straight into the Nuclear Stealth Mines. Boda Bing Boda Boom.
I estimate that that Would've taken a fifth out the Covenant Shields, Since the LNOS is still recovering from 20 or so Nuclear blasts, this creates a very small window of time that allows 28 Frigates and 8 Cruisers too unleash an unending hellish menagerie of Missile pods at the Assault Carrier.
This , I assume, would weaken the ships shields to 15-20%.
Now, it's time for the Trafalgar to shine. It, 2 Cruisers, and 8 Frigates emerge from behind the Moon and simultaneously firing their MAC Guns at the exact same spot on the Assault Carrier. All the while, the primary assault force has taken heavy losses, and are still keeping them busy with Longswords, Pelicans, and Sabres. With fighters Numbering in the thousands, I assume the Assault Carrier couldn't handle the missile pods or fighters at the same time. The Carrier fires it's Super MAC half a second after it's support ships have fired at it's target location. After the first consecutive burst of over 4000 missiles and 10 MAC Rounds hitting the same spot, LNOS has lost it's shields, the Super MAC Round finally does it.
The Target Location was the Primary Energy Projector on the top side of the ship. This is linked to an extremely powerful power source, after being stuck by at least 2 or 3 MAC Rounds, and finally the Super MAC, this Power Source would have overloaded and exploded, severing the Ship and leaving utterly destroyed and salvageable.
UNSC Fleet Estimates:
30 Frigates, 10 Cruisers, and the Trafalgar.
Corvettes would have been lost due to Overwhelming fire from the LNOS.
Please tell me what you think of this scenario.
Firstly, its a Supercarrier not an Assault Carrier.
Secondly, the UNSC cannot navigate Slipspace that accurately. The novel, The Fall of Reach states that they either appear NEAR the intended jump point.... or a billion kilometers distant.
Thirdly... the aforementioned novel says that there were 100 ships DURING the battle on the 30th of August.... 16 days after Long Night of Solace was destroyed. This means that if there were casualties like this suffered, there wouldn't have been a 100 ships in orbit on the 30th, ruining the canon (hell, Reach already ruins the canon...)
Sorry if I sound like a dick.
NOW on a positive note...
Trafalgar was one of the few UNSC Supercarriers (DO NOT confuse with Covenant Supercarrier). While not as...indestructible....as Halcyon-class cruisers, still could take a tremendous amount of damage. What does this mean? Trafalgar could've pwned the Corvettes easy and still deal a decent amount of damage to the Long Night of Solace... by itself.
[Edited on 07.16.2011 1:29 AM PDT]