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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?
Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: superiorarsenal
At Alexandria it wasn't even firing for 15 seconds and did damage on a scale MUCH larger than an acre.
Um...
A: The far end of the city was more on fire ingame then glassed.
B: When you come out of the bunker, it's what... THREE days later? And the ground isn't even fully glassed.
Edit: What large scale damage do you speak of anyway?
This is kind of the reason I don't think those weapons are involved in really glassing a world at all. They are employed in a tactical manner, in support of redeploying ground forces (you are told they are pulling out), it is used as an area-denial weapon-wrecking the city so the UNSC cannot possibly reclaim it and killing all expsed enemy forces.
They are not strategic weapons. Orbital bombardment, as described in the quotes I had up earlier, and as observed in the trailers for Halo 2 and Reach (though only tentitavely observed in Reach itself), *is* a strategic bombardment situation.
The Ventral energy projector/excavation beam/glassing beam/whatever you want to call it, isn't depicted as a strategically viable weapon in-game at all.
It's local, extremely so.
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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Is an acre not fairly large? Then "MUCH larger then an acre" would be 'large scale'
Nah not really mate, it's considerably smaller than a football pitch.
Anyway, if Energy projector/plasma torpedo glassing was so powerful...
Why, after three days does New Alexandria look like this? http://www.halopedian.com/images/b/b1/NA_Glassed.jpg
Shouldn't it be a flat stretch of glass?
Because, as I thought was quite clear from the game itself, the Covenant ships only hit the area with their Ventral beam weapons.
That level of devastation rendered the city worthless strategically to the UNSC, and likely killed most of the Human population that wasn't in hardened sites.
There is no reason to assume they came back and gave it a more thorough going-over than we saw in-game.
[Edited on 09.13.2011 3:57 PM PDT]