- FTW 1997
- |
- Honorable Member
- gamertag: [none]
- user homepage:
Posted by: DarkBen64
Posted by: FTW 1997
Posted by: DarkBen64
Posted by: FTW 1997
Posted by: DarkBen64
I thought it might be good to actually have a balanced 'debate' over two empires that might actually have a chance against each other.
So, let's break this down...
Firstly, the timeline of each empire that they will battle in.
The Tau are at the peak of the Third Sphere Expansion (basically their highest recorded peak) and the Covenant are just before the start of the Human-Covenant war.
Tau:
"For the Greater Good!"
Extremely advanced weapons tech, hugely advanced battlesuit technology.
Extremely powerful guns.
Efficient combat AI.
Have 3 auxiliary races to aid in different forms of combat: The Kroot (forest/jungle aliens, extremely good fieldcraft and melee skills, able to manipulate their DNA along generations.}
The Vespids (insectoid, flying aliens. Quite large, very good shock troopers, carry deadly weapons capable of piercing through space marine power armour.)
Gue'Vesa (Human Auxiliaries, fight with a combination of Tau and Human (Imperium) weapons.)
Have unique battle tactics:
Mont'ka (Killing blow) The Tau hunter cadre leads a decisive strike into the heart of the opponent's force, crippling its fighting capability.
Kauyon (Patient Hunter) The Tau lure the enemy into an ambush and quickly destroy the enemy with a crossfire of pulse fire.
The Tau do not possess FTL travel as their minds do not register in the warp, however can still travel at extremely high speeds and their empire is situated in a comparatively small area of space.
Covenant:
"For the Great Journey!"
Many more races in the empire over a bigger sector of space (?)
FTL travel
However, fight in more 'roving warband' like fashion (as is often seen in the Halo games) and are easy to make an entire battleforce completely incoherent with the elimination of key leadership roles.
Do not possess as advanced weaponry, however there is evidence that supports the fact that they have more capable AI (really the only Tau AI is that found in the combat drones).
(I haven't got quite as much knowledge for the Covie side, so if anyone has relevant info WITH SOURCES kindly let me know and I'll add it to the OP.
The covenant has sucky AI's.
They have AI almost at the level of Cortana.
The covenants AI technology is on its lowest level because they started making them during the war ...they thought it was because of an AI their "l0rd5" lost.
Then explain how Cortana was troubled by the AI in First Strike. The Covenant have AI powerful enough to annoy Cortana, and from what we've seen more powerful than Tau AI, as we only know of combat drone AI.
She easly captured him...he even gave up his loaction...
He kept sending heresy messages...she trapped him....
If you think that,that was hard for an AI that possessed the entire knowledge of humanity in 2 hours...think again.