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Ok tell me if im wrong but if I remamber correctly the Covenant attacked Earth with 15 ships, 15 Capital ships but 15 ships all the same. And on the human side we have lets say 100 ships orbiting Earth and in the exact words of Srg. Johnson "Ciro is one of 300 geosink platforms". HOW THE F**K DID WE LOSE WITH THAT SORT OF FIRE POWER?!?!?!?!?!

Please tell me if im wrong but that seems completly imposible even if it is the Covenant.

P.S. Does anyone know if we can e-mail Bungie?

  • 05.11.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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simple...the covie had pie throwing Ninjas with jetpacks!...duh


but really...the covie had always been about to beat the humans

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Posted by: Slappyy
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You should be slapped for a reply like that.

  • 05.11.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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I don't know if you realized it, but the covenant technology is superior to that of the humans, and the humans have been losing the war.

  • 05.11.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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i didnt mean to hit submit...i fixed it now

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  • 05.11.2006 6:43 PM PDT
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We lost because the Chief didn't have the pistol. :P

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If i'm correct, Cairo was part of the MAC cluster. The Multa, Athens, and Cairo were the only platforms of their calibur that orbited earth. Even if there were more, and there could have been, since the convanent attacked only one side of earth, they could have flown below the guns and decimated them that way.

  • 05.11.2006 6:44 PM PDT

umm hello? Captain Keys single handedly took out a Covenant carrier in the Piller of Autaum and when he was a Commander took out I bevieve it was two Covenant frigets.

  • 05.11.2006 6:45 PM PDT
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The Covenant retreated. Remember in the level Regret that huge ass Covenat fleet? That is what goes to Earth and destroys stuff.

  • 05.11.2006 6:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan0627
umm hello? Captain Keys single handedly took out a Covenant carrier in the Piller of Autaum and when he was a Commander took out I bevieve it was two Covenant frigets.


Just so you know, Captain Keyes crashed his ship into the Covenant Destroyer and then the Frigate's torpedoes his the destroyer and ripped it apart.

  • 05.11.2006 6:47 PM PDT

Dude, it would be so cool if we had these pregnant sentinels that were, like, all flaming and shot out baby flaming sentinels that would be all "YARRRGH!" then they'd be like, "WHAAAAR" when they shoot.

That'd be sweet.

Posted by: Spartan0627
Ok tell me if im wrong but if I remamber correctly the Covenant attacked Earth with 15 ships, 15 Capital ships but 15 ships all the same. And on the human side we have lets say 100 ships orbiting Earth and in the exact words of Srg. Johnson "Ciro is one of 300 geosink platforms". HOW THE F**K DID WE LOSE WITH THAT SORT OF FIRE POWER?!?!?!?!?!

Please tell me if im wrong but that seems completly imposible even if it is the Covenant.


Your dumb.
We had like 100 ships for every 3 geosync platform.

And then the covenant came with say... EVERYTHING THEY HAD.
Are you even familiar about the battles that took place prior to Halo? A covenant destroyer can easily take on 10 or the UNSC's destroyers. Not that we have any left.
And c'mon, if the Covenant can cut through us with 15 ships...

Well it doesn't take too much imagination to think about what happened when 5000 covenant capital ships folded into earth space.

  • 05.11.2006 6:48 PM PDT
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If you remember, during Halo 2, the 15 ships attacked at the begining of the game. It was Regrets ships on a scout mission. He had no knowledge of Earth's location. However, while scouting, they discovered Earth. They discovered it with the small 15 ship fleet. He acted hastily and attacked Earth, big mistake. He lost there, which was why Truth and Mercy abandonned him. We didnt lose there. However, now that hes found it, the whole of the covenenant knows Earth's location. Remember on Delta Halo when all the ships came out of slipspace? That was Truth and Mercy sending the ships out to attack Earth. Thats why we lost, because Earth was discovered, and a larger force was sent to invade it.

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He pulled off those manuvers out of desperation and luck. Try reading about the battle that happened after that. The humans won, but the fleet was nearly crippled. And they even outnumbered the Covenant.

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The covies rushed past everything and went straight down to New Mombasa with the capitol ship. They pretty much outmenuvered the humans.

  • 05.11.2006 6:50 PM PDT
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the question i have is when MC got bak it looked like the war was raging on still it didnt look anywhere like earth had been destryoned

  • 05.11.2006 6:50 PM PDT

IF I UNDERSTOOD H2 STORY RITE...THEN I BELIEVE THAT MC WAS ABLE TO DEFENDED EARTH (WE STOPPED THE 15 COVY SHIPS) BECAUSE THE PROPHETS TRUTH AND THAT OTHER PROPHET MADE THE OTHER OTHER PROPHET THAT FOUND EARTH RETREAT AWAY OR W.E SOO THAT THEY WOOD ALL ATTACK WITH A MASSIVE FLEET... LIKE REMEM AT THE END AFTER WE BEAT THE SPIDER THING, MC AND KEYES'S DAUGHTER N JOHNSON WHO WERE ALL IN THE SHIP WENT INTO THE SPACE JUMP WITH COVY SHIP B4 THE COVY GOT AWAY...YA I HOPE U REMEM IF NOT PLAY THAT LEVEL AGAIN AND U WILL C ... I HOPE THAT MADE SENSE TOO TIRED AND LAZY TO CHECK LOL =: )

  • 05.11.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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Maybe H3 is way after he gets back, like a few years. (or at least the trailer) and the battle WAS still raging when he got back.

Boaplayer is right, he did save earth, but they teleported the Forerunner Capitol ship (or whatever you guys decided it was) right to earth. Along with whats left of the covie fleet.

HARMANS = TEH SADLY OWND

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Posted by: Spartan0627
Ok tell me if im wrong but if I remamber correctly the Covenant attacked Earth with 15 ships, 15 Capital ships but 15 ships all the same. And on the human side we have lets say 100 ships orbiting Earth and in the exact words of Srg. Johnson "Ciro is one of 300 geosink platforms". HOW THE F**K DID WE LOSE WITH THAT SORT OF FIRE POWER?!?!?!?!?!

Please tell me if im wrong but that seems completly imposible even if it is the Covenant.

P.S. Does anyone know if we can e-mail Bungie?


the covies loaded the stations with the bombs. after they punched a hole in the defenses they went right to earth and landed their troops, and dominated from there.

  • 05.11.2006 6:53 PM PDT

10 MILLION DOLLARS SAYS THE MOVIE PLOTLINE AND FOOTAGE WILL BE OF HOW THE COVENANT TOOK OVER EARTH... IF I UNDERSTAND THE ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER ALRDY..THEN THE MOVIE WILL SHOW HOW WE FOUGHT BUT LOST IN THE END AND H3 WILL TAKE PLACE AFTER THE MOVIE...JST MY GUESS.

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The trailor isnt the beggining of halo 3, it is actually about 1/3 or 1/2 the way through I think. So the beggining of halo 3 could have you play some of the battles that were lost. Of coarse; on an epic scale...

  • 05.11.2006 6:55 PM PDT
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ALL CAPS ARE REALLY ANOYING AND THEY MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A NOOB.

:o

  • 05.11.2006 6:55 PM PDT

oh....

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hmm the trailer i think would have to be half way through the game

  • 05.11.2006 6:58 PM PDT

I AM a noob to the forums...srry bout caps

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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

The Covenant sent 15 ships as a scout, because they assumed humans didn't control earth. When the Regret Fleet realized its error, Regret fled and left the rest of the ships to wait for the reinforcments. Reinforcments of a few hundred ships, most likely.

  • 05.11.2006 7:01 PM PDT