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Posted by: jakemaidment
FINALLY someone gives me a decent response without resorting to calling me a fanboy!
a reaper scout (sovereign) is est. 2km long with enough firepower to destroy the kinetic shield and alliance ship in one shot from the spinal cannon.
keeping in mind sovereign is a scout, eg: not the strongest reaper ship.
A covenant CSO class supercarrier, the largest covenant ship going is 28.9km long, this is considerably larger than a reaper scout, the energy shielding can take hundreds of archer missiles, a handfull of SHIVA nukes, a few MAC shots from a frigate or one single superMAC shot.
the downside to covenant shielding is that it goes down to fire the weapons.
the reaper ship being faster and more intelligent would (in my opinion) be able to dodge the glassing beam if it were to be used for ship-to-ship combat.
covenant plasma torpedos would be able to follow and track the reaper ship, I have no references to use that say a reaper could outrun a torpdeo.
the plasma turrets scattered on the ship are slow to fire and incredibly inaccurate, so would be useless (in my opinion)
the plasma lasers would however be accurate enough to hit the reaper and can do damage to the shields.
with all of this weaponry firing, It'd be safe to assume that a large portion of the ships shielding would be down.
as much as I hate to use halo: reach as an example, the mass driver at the end of the campaign fired at the unshielded glassing beam caused the ship to be destroyed, presuming a reaper cannon is as strong (iI have no doubt it's stronger) than a standard MAC, and with reaper intelligence and speed, a well placed shot could bypass the covenant shields altogether and destroy a CSO.
in my opinion the only effective weaponry for use against a reaper are the plasma lasers and torpedos, from what I have seen, I have no doubt a reaper ship could take out a CSO1-there is no proof that sovereign is just a scout (i mean by being weaker than other reapers)
2-A CCS can take 3 MAC rounds whitout droping its shields the supercarrier would probaly take some 81 MAC rounds before dropind and before you call that an assumption remenber most of your argument is based on assumptions
3- no ship i know of can dodge a beam at the speed of light unles the reapers have some magic auto win button
4- they are point defense lasers that means they fire at the speed of light and have a 100% acuracy
5-that was a Independence day stile weak spot covenant shildes only drop in a small area around the weapon that is firing
6-Both in the Halo games and books covenant shielding has been show to resist energy based weapons that means they are not kinectic barriers