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Subject: so I was reading that thread about reaches mac guns and......

does anyone wonder why a 20-30 foot mac gun(actually its a mass driver,a smaller mac) can take out a battlecruiser in one shot but in halo 2, where there are 12 ships, 3 macs that are bigger then cities, "can put a round clean through a covenant ship" , and fire at around 1 shot every 10 seconds cant hold off a 12 ship battlegroup?

also, why were there no rooftop macs in new mombasa, If I were lord hood, I would have ordered like 50,000 of those.

Sorry,I know reach isnt exactly the most cannon and halo 2 came 5 years before reach(or 2 months after if your talking game time)

just pointing this out to some people.

  • 03.08.2012 9:29 PM PDT

You did realise that Captain Keys says that the shields have to be down AND that you have to shoot at the glassing beam?

A super MAC wouldn't need to wait.

  • 03.08.2012 9:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: ACJCLIGHTNING
does anyone wonder why a 20-30 foot mac gun(actually its a mass driver,a smaller mac) can take out a battlecruiser in one shot but in halo 2, where there are 12 ships, 3 macs that are bigger then cities, "can put a round clean through a covenant ship" , and fire at around 1 shot every 10 seconds cant hold off a 12 ship battlegroup?

also, why were there no rooftop macs in new mombasa, If I were lord hood, I would have ordered like 50,000 of those.

Sorry,I know reach isnt exactly the most cannon and halo 2 came 5 years before reach(or 2 months after if your talking game time)

just pointing this out to some people.

1) For one, the Mass Driver hit the CCS-class in the charging energy projector. Think Independence Day. For the First Battle of Earth, I have no idea why it wasn't a giant curbstomp in favor of the UNSC.

2) Why have ground based platforms that have to fire through atmosphere when you can build orbital platforms much easier?

  • 03.08.2012 9:46 PM PDT
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:)


Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
1) For one, the Mass Driver hit the CCS-class in the charging energy projector. Think Independence Day. For the First Battle of Earth, I have no idea why it wasn't a giant curbstomp in favor of the UNSC.

By memory, a lot of the platforms were offline.. or something stupid like that.

  • 03.08.2012 10:00 PM PDT

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Pretty sure there were more than 12 ships in the invading fleet.

I remember cortana saying something about 1 battlegroup consisting of 13 cruisers, and 2 assault carriers, and that was after the other 2 Macs in the cluster had been blown up, and I'm still pretty sure there were more ships than that.

[Edited on 03.08.2012 10:35 PM PST]

  • 03.08.2012 10:34 PM PDT
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So what ? There were 200+ ships at reach that got blown to pieces with only a unsc fleet and 20 macs.

  • 03.08.2012 11:47 PM PDT

Great Job

  • 03.08.2012 11:51 PM PDT