- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
A few things to clear up: But First, beating the hell out of other user's comments.
"i dont think it would of been easy for the covenant to capture earth, humans are on their home planet so they're really determined, we have more forces on earth than reach and like 50 times as many MACs orbiting so we would of done some real damage to the covenant fleet before it touched down "
Real damage, yeah, but this isn't counting that the Covenant have, in total, billions and billions of troops, like consider every human alive before the covenant war, now multiply that times 3, Now factor in the fact that Covenant have insanely advanced tech, plasma sheilds, plasma guns, all this crap... A normal Covenant squad (one elite, five grunts) could take down about 3-8 marines, and all of this together and we can sum up the human's situation in 2 words:
Supremely -blam!-.
Have you read the books? No, you probably havn't, so I'll describe it to you. The Covenant win in nearly every space battle that ever takes place, and destroying planets is anything but harder. They just take out the 30 or so MAC guns, go in and blow up the planet from the sky like wussies who won't come down and torch the planet by themselves.
Basically what I'm saying is, this is a completely one-sided war, and I'm not taking sides. This is just a speculation. You can probably say things like "well the humans r kool n the koviez suk dik!1111!" but that won't do anything about Halo, or any other Bungie work.
Okay, anyway, moving onto the next quote... Oh yeah, here it is:
"It must have taken years rather then months then, so halo 3 probably takes place years after the events of halo 2.."
It took about, one month or some insane amount of time like that to destroy Reach, THE LARGEST MILITARY COMPOUND IN THE HUMAN MILITARY. Halo 3 does not take place "years" after Halo 2, besides, Bungie has stated (Probably in the Halo 3 FAQ, not sure) that it takes place right after Halo 2.
And another by Blind Outlaw:
"exactly, and most battles would become like stalingrad battles, with the humans not giving up an inch of ground and the covenant pouring more troops intoi the meat grinder, billions will die before the end
and im sick of people saying our defences suck because regret got through, he got through because he had to or the story would be the chief sitting on earth waiting for the main covenant force to arrive, playing cards with some ODSTs, not the best story"
Not giving up an inch of ground? This is counting that the Covies can probably toast MAC and SOMAC guns at a rate of one per hour, at the worst? The humans wouldn't be like Stalingrad. Stalingrad crap was fueled by morale, sheer opression by Hitler, they where fighting for everything they stand for. Morale, however, something the Humans don't have any of. In Halo they're fighting for what? To not die. And what's sad is that they're losing. The humans don't have any morale- Infact the U.N.S.C. faked it so that it looked like all the Spartans are alive, though only MC is living, to prevent what's happening now. It didn't work if you can't tell.
Okay, that's enough bashing of people. Onto the subject.
Yeah, the battle for Earth was probably hell, for both sides. The Covenant would have been dying to get their hands on The Ark, sloppily pouring millions of troops in an unstratigic format into MAC guns to disable them, blinded by false promises of salvation by prophets, while humans where just plain getting their asses whooped.
[Edited on 5/19/2006]