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| Re: Hah. | |
| Posted By: Peptuck | Date: 11/5/07 8:11 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Hah. (58) : The point I'm making is that, if the humans have access to the resources of : eight hundred worlds, then the Covenant does NOT have superior numbers. : We've seen enough to know that if the Covenant had enough to make eight : hundred colonized worlds seem insignificant that the war would have been : over in months. Evidence. Just because they would have the resources, it doesn't ecessarily mean they threw everything they had into hunting down the humans, and the biggest problem the Covenant had with defeating humanity was not numbers but locating a few planets in a galaxy of a hundred billion stars. : I already said that I know the difference between a fleet and the entire
A big number of ships for one particular location doesn't necessarily translate into proportional ship numbers. We have canonical estimates of the Covenant pretty much throwing away ship fleets of the hundreds, and a Prophet who completely dismisses the destruction of a fleet over three times the size of anything the UNSC could hope to muster. : Yeah, and they only committed three hundred ships (and lost most of them)
IIRC, these are the guys who utterly and completely crush UNSC fleets when they are outnumbered three to one. Throwing a force that outnumbers the UNSC defenders is overkill. Not to mention that outnumbering the enemy three to one - which is how the Covenant outnumbered the UNSC forces at Reach - is normal for offensive operations. That, and it costs less in terms of logistics and resources to throw a smaller fleet at a target than to utterly swamp it. That's why the US military threw less than a fifth of its available military strength at Iraq in the second invasion; fielding ships and troops and vehicles costs money and resources, and the fewer ships, troops, and vehicles you use, the better.
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| Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 11:05 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 11:06 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 2:00 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 3:04 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 3:07 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 3:22 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 3:46 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 4:08 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | 58 | 11/4/07 5:36 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Bry | 11/4/07 11:59 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Deckard | 11/5/07 12:36 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/5/07 5:33 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Deckard | 11/5/07 12:46 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/5/07 2:50 p.m. |
| Dekard was a real asshole | SinisterSamurai | 11/6/07 1:35 a.m. |
| Yes, but was he human? | Narcogen | 11/6/07 10:54 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Louis Wu | 11/4/07 6:53 p.m. |
| Hmm... that's really low... | Walshicus | 11/4/07 11:14 a.m. |
| From the Halo timeline: | Jordan117 | 11/4/07 11:30 a.m. |
| Re: From the Halo timeline: | Dundradal | 11/4/07 1:00 p.m. |
| Thanks *NM* | Jordan117 | 11/4/07 1:25 p.m. |
| Re: From the Halo timeline: | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 2:04 p.m. |
| Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 11:30 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | BirDMaN | 11/4/07 11:41 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 1:09 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Thanatos119 | 11/4/07 1:15 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Orpheus | 11/4/07 2:43 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | gspawn | 11/4/07 3:12 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:23 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 5:23 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 5:32 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 5:47 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 9:18 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 9:27 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 10:15 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 11:04 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Walshicus | 11/4/07 2:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | VVM | 11/4/07 3:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:11 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 3:33 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 5:10 p.m. |
| That, I can believe. *NM* | 58 | 11/4/07 5:35 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Orpheus | 11/4/07 6:01 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 6:18 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 9:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 10:26 p.m. |
| Um... not quite | Walshicus | 11/6/07 1:26 p.m. |
| Re: Um... not quite | Omega | 11/6/07 4:38 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/4/07 7:40 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 8:37 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/5/07 1:01 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/5/07 12:29 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/5/07 8:11 p.m. |
| I assumed it was semantics. | Funkmon | 11/4/07 4:55 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Korsriddare | 11/5/07 9:47 p.m. |
| 800 FTW | Devrous | 11/12/07 3:18 p.m. |
| Contact Harvest *Spoilers* Above *NM* | Simpsons Rule | 11/12/07 4:24 p.m. |
| Re: 800 FTW *sp* | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 11/12/07 7:07 p.m. |
| Re: 800 FTW *sp* | Devrous | 11/13/07 12:36 a.m. |
| More! (+calculations) *Spoilers* | Devrous | 11/13/07 3:34 a.m. |
| Re: More! (+calculations) *Spoilers* | kr-1426 | 11/13/07 2:31 p.m. |
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