For me it's the UNSC Halberd class destroyer
>gaylo>>>/lgbt/
>>65011480Can't beat the good old CCS. Nope, no sir-ee. 5800 feet of nanolaminate and 16 plasma torpedoes, you can't get a better ship-killer than this.
>18 miles of ass whooping
I also really like the Assault Carrier
>>65011480I wish the writers in Halo would finally figure out the concept of Casaba-Howitzers.
>>65011560Here's a you for your troubles>>65011480I've always been partial to the paris class, it's great
>>65011480its a shame the supposed idea of Halo Wars 3 being a space rts never got off the drawing board, there is a shitload of UNSC and Covie ships that could have been used for it
>>65012784MACs are cooler.
>>65012985Aren't the UNSC totally outclassed in space?
>>65011480>bookshit
>>65011672pillar of autumn is worth 4 of these even while being massively outnumberedbattlecruisers couldn't even stop it from leaving reach lmao
>>65013742Outclassed and outnumbered. They only ever won major engagements on the ground, which almost always resulted in the covenant just flipping the table in the form of orbital bombardment.>HA we beat you alien, take that!>Did you though?>*laughs in orbital plasma cannon bombardment*
>>65013742The original concept was that the UNSC needed three ships of equivalent class to "win" a shooting match in space with 2/3rds casualties. This exacerbated by the fact that the unsc doesn't even HAVE ships of equivalent class to half the covenant Navy, and the covenant has a much bigger fleet than the UNSC, requiring absurd numbers advantages against a fleet that outnumbers you dramatically. This often got confused by later writers, some holding to that same standard (humanity was turbo fucked the whole "war") and some thinking that three UNSC frigates were an overmatch for a Covenant vessel ten times their collective mass.>>65015467It's exacerbated by the fact that for most of the war 99% of the covenant's ground troops were Jackals, Grunts, and Brutes, which sounds odd because in the games you fight a huge number of Elites. The Covenant was willing to throw a million grunts at any problem, including as a distraction so that the special forces could collect some forerunner artifact on the ground. The presence of humans makes scanning for forerunner artifacts impossible, and so they *have* to investigate on foot.
LET IT GOYOU ARE 30
>>65015721Technically, they could scan for artifacts, because they have designations other than 'reclaimer', but doing so would give away the secret to any shipmaster with 2 braincells to rub together.
For me it’s the flood sending a million civilian ships into your planets
>>65011560Snoy lost quite literally everything this week, so hush.
>>65015802Kill yourself
>>65015879>ignore 343 "lore" and stick to the Bungie era>stuck with the space zombies somehow beating the ForerunnersShieeeet
>>65016311You don’t know the lore. They aren’t just brainless zombies. They became smarter then the forerunners
>>65016178Snoy is fucked right now, but Xbox has been irreparably fucked for the better part of a decade.
>>65016178>>65016344What happened to snoy?
>>65016352price increases happened. basic bitch console is now $650
>>65015355Keyes was a godlike Captain and Cortana is probably the smartest AI of her class. You can't really use the Pillar of Autumn's performance during the battle of Installation 04 as a good representation of the Halcyon class as a whole.
>>65016357>basic bitch console is now $650
>>65012784Actually a thing in universe. We still nearly ran out of nuclear weapons, and that's WITH dozens of planets cranking out 1960 US nuclear program levels of nukes. >whyCovenant point defense systems are batshit insane good, their pulse laser grids can chew up multi thousand Archer volleys (which are missiles larger than a Trident III) and do this constantly. Covenant energy shields are also very strong, being able to shrug off multi megaton impacts/detonations even from the inside. And finally fissionable materials generate Cherenkov radiation when exiting slipspace, tipping off the Covenant that you're armed with nukes and they would prioritize those ships for destruction.
>>65016352A console with no games is now $700+ after taxes if you get a disc drive with it. The pro model is a hair under $1000.It's the PS3 all over again, except this time Xbox is still in the middle of trying nothing and saying they're all out of ideas, so they can't eat Sony's lunch like they did with the 360.
>>65015343>retard zoomer dosen't know about Halo being a book before the gamePathetic.
>>65016361>>65016352They're also introducing "Dynamic Pricing". So if you live in an expensive area, expect to pay more for the same product versus a much cheaper area to live in
>>65016377>third world scalpersNothing personnel saar.
>>65016319That's because like most scifi everyone is retarded. America in the 50s would have the technology to spam enough nukes to beat back the space faggots. Everything bigger than a .30cal should be a boosted fission warhead innated by compressing a pit of Americium/Californium alloy.Of course having the Space Murcians spewing out nukes and screamers to kill the filthy xenos would put John Halo out of work.
>>65016956Every ship in the UNSC is armed with a thousand nukes you retard.
>>65016377I mean, that's how damned near everything works. Labor's expensive in liberal shitholes.Or are you talking online orders?
>>65011480Can't wait to try the new warthog run this year
>>65015721>The Covenant was willing to throw a million grunts at any problem, including as a distraction so that the special forces could collect some forerunner artifact on the ground.Were they inspired by the USSR or something?
>>65017199Grunts aren't Sangheili. Their reward for having the spine to tell the Covenant at gunpoint that they didn't want to die en masse in the factories was getting to die en masse on the battlefield so they could at least scrape together some semblance of dignity out of it.
The corvette probably isn't survivable, but I like the way it looks.
>>65016956The flood was able to take control of precursor star roads and use them to slice apart forerunner ships. They were indestructible to everything but the halo rings.They would also just bypass fleets and do a slip space jump directly into planets to infect them so either they infect the entire planet or you kill all your people with nukes. Either way they win
>>65016956Covenant armor can withstand multiple nuke strikes and they have lasers to shoot down most of the missles you send at them. They can also turn your planet into a glass ball
>>65016344Xboxfags aren't delusional about that is the difference.
>>65017165I distinctly remember that not being the case for some reason though the writers likely retconned it. I mean on Reach they couldn't scrounge up a single nuke.>>65017364Attributed competence which isn't displayed within the actual narrative is the number one sign of bad plot writing. And its far from unique to Halo.>>65017389Do you know what a casaba howitzer is? It's much more difficult to shoot down a collated plasma plume generated by a nuclear charge with a speed of between .1C and .6C. Sure you might disrupt it but the aliens have shown no capacity to do so. You faggots are just made I'm shitting on your scifi the same way I shit on all scifi. Scifi writers were either military fiction dude bros like John Ringo who don't know shit or libtard faggots who want to write a "message" like Azimov. I've never actually encountered scifi which is completely grounded and has the characters properly apply the resources they have available in war scenario. I'm talking about billions of nukes and robots which are just EFPs which aim themselves at any faggy alien they see being churned out bey automated factories which strip-mine planets and crack apart asteroids for the materials.That's what should be available to the humans form Halo. And if the Forerunners weren't' pussies they could could have used machines to devour the galaxy eons ago. The Flood is weak as fuck.Hell the one way to beat these hypothetical humans would just be to make a massive RKV which then explodes into a cone of relativistic shrapnel if you try to fuck with it. That would glass a planet without needing the cinematic circumstance of hundreds of ships barraging it.Like I said Halo is in good company because just like all other scifi the narrative or in this case the fun shoot alien in face gameplay takes precedent over autistic representations of space war.
>>65017628Nukes are baby toys. You’re butthurt fictional humans got beat despite having them because it’s the strongest weapon humans can currently think of
>>65017628The covenant could sit out of range of your missles and slow .6C beam and snipe your ships with laser beams going the speed of light
>>65016369THAT book didn't come out before even halo 3, retard
>>65016360There's no way they were pulling out the 10000 IQ plays in that scenario. All she did was shoot them with a big gun before boarding craft overwhelmed the watch. Besides, keyes was not THAT smart. All he did was lock swap which is a basic torpedo evasion tactic irl. Nylund probably got the idea from hunt for red october.
>>65017628>I distinctly remember that not being the case for some reason though the writers likely retconned it. I mean on Reach they couldn't scrounge up a single nuke.True but reach isn't canon
>>65016360Forgot to addcope
>>65011480my only complaint is they don't have any proper hanger spaces so you can't bring a company or two of marines with you to go land somewhere
>>65017361I like that it's just a giant railgun with engines strapped on the back
>>65017628>Do you know what a casaba howitzer is?Yes we all know what a casaba howitzer is and we knew long before you did can you please go back to whatever board you're from, every few weeks one of you faggots filters into this place and talks about shit like this as if it's going to impress us.
