- Gottalovec4
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About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.
But really am sweet at heart. =)
I mean, I know that's the canon and nothing can be changed, but how is it from the Battle of Harvest all the way to Earth, the only men with any know how on naval tactics were a washed up Vice Admiral who effectively just threw ships at the enemy until they broke, and a Commander/Captain who figured out how to fly around a planet while placing a nuke?
During the entire war, the standard engagement procedures of the UNSC in space combat were to charge straight towards the Covenant, firing weapons they knew took at least 3 shots to do any sort of damage, with armor as effective as tissue paper.
Why did the UNSC not change engagement procedures? A MAC fires at a percentage of the speed of LIGHT! Just stay at range with an asteroid belt between the ship and the Covenant and gradually break down their shields.
On that note, it is essentially verified that it either takes multiple low energy impacts, or single VERY high energy impacts to overload Covenant shield systems. So instead of installing the same MAC weapon on all Covenant ships, just in different numbers why not put a lighter, faster firing MAC on frigates, and less, HEAVIER MACs on destroyers and cruisers?
It just kills me that the Navy built the same 3 ships for 3 decades of war, saw they didn't work, saw their strategy didn't work, and did nothing. While ship captains, people with supposed years of experience, would haphazardly charge into battles that could only end with them being vaporized.