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NOW, as any Halo fan knows, the UNSC and Covenant are near equal on the ground. In fact, the UNSC may actualy be slightly superior because of the SPARTAN program, but Covenant Hunters and Elites are rivals. The reason the UNSC about lost the war is because of naval starship combat. The UNSC had better tactics, AI's and the MAC gun, but the Covenant outclassed them is every other category. Weapons, armor, speed, slipspace engine, and, most importantly, shielding. Covenant naval shields really made the difference, and life would've been a lot easier for the UNSC if not for shields, but they exsist. So, how could the UNSC have changed the tide of war?
- Forget Frigates. Frigates are absolutely useless versus the Covenant, and are a waste of resources and people.
- Archer missles suck, and why the UNSC never replaced them is a mystery. Their only use is launching them all to weaken shields, but than most of them were destroyed by Covenant lasers before they could do anything. Make them faster with a bigger bang.
- Shields. SPARTANS have shields, why not starcraft? If the UNSC had shielding, they would actually be BETTER than the Covies in space, because the UNSC now has better tactics, the MAC gun, AI's, AND shielding. Run, Covies.
- More MAC. Dual, or even triple, MAC guns would be incredible, as a single starcraft could gut 2 or 3 Covenant ships in less than a minute.
- Stop defending unimportant colonies with 1 or 2 ships. Throughout the war, I belive many Outer and a couple Inner colonies fell with only a couple UNSC starcraft defending it. Many times, the Covies OUTNUMBERED the UNSC. Either defend the colony with a real force or just abandon it. If these small, failed defences didn't happen, the UNSC would probably have an extra 100 ships in it's fleet during 2552, and may have spaired several colonies from glassing.
- NOVA bombs. These things could level the battlefield without any of the above 5 pieces of advice happening.
- Now were gettin' nerdy. Replace Titanium A with Tungsten Alloy. Covenant Plasma is about 3,000 degress. (Celecius oor Farenheit, I forgot) Titanium A melts around 1,700 degrees, so plasma boils and melts away UNSC armor. Tungsten alloy, however, melts at 3,400, so UNSC starcraft will better resist plasma weaponry.
- Attack. Not once in the whole war was the UNSC on the offensive with the exception of a couple of SPARTAN-III suicide missions and the Ark. You can't win wars by defending the whole.