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| Re: Why didn't the Covenant just shoot the MAC's?? | |
| Posted By: M6D <the_M6D_legend@hotmail.com> | Date: 1/28/06 2:59 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Why didn't the Covenant just shoot the MAC's?? (Slith) : First thing that pops into my mind: "Why the fuck not?" Putting
: To put it in terms of Halo 2: You have the bomb, and you are sneaking into
: Do you [A] Continue past him hoping your team's sniper takes him out. Knowing
: Or do you [B] Assassinate him and continue on to try and plant the bomb? : The answer is pretty obvious to me. It seems to me more then anything, as ive already stated regret was to OCCUPIED, with the human fleet running interferance, you see, you even see a cruiser take a heavy disabling or damaging hit to the bottom, this SHOWS us that the human fleet were effectively distracting the covenant so they wouldnt target the battlestations, more or less sacrifice or to at elast keep the covie guns occupied. : Yes. In fact, we have proof with the explosion of the Malta and Athens. They
And this im pretty sure is down to somthing, say in game you notice cairo is acutally lacking completey any point defense weapondary, either not modelled or an over sight, well, strictly speaking in the 'haloverse' if we take out game mechanics etc, im sure that tehse stations would have point defense, the tactic of using hundreds of bombs likely wasnt chosen due to the fact that the bomb would need to be wired up to detonante upon impact, and considering the suddern improvisation of the battle i doubt the covies had time. : It's a tremendous oversight on Bungie's part. To me, it feels like they
: Here I can grudgingly agree with you. I do see how it's possible for the
: Still, what's the rest of the Human fleet doing lollygagging in space while a
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