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12/28/2012 4:24:32 AM
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Who REALLY won the war in space?

The more I think about it the more I start to tell myself that the UNSC, and not the Covenant, won the war in space in the end. Yes I know it took three or four UNSC ships to destroy one Covenant ship, but overall I still think the UNSC had many major wins. The Unyielding Elephant, destruction of High Charity, the gas planet Admiral Cole nuked to cook the Covenant fleet in orbit, etc.... I really can't remember a time when the UNSC lost at least 150 ships or more in a single battle.... So overall, even though the Covenant won almost every engagement, when you add in Unyielding Elephant(500+ ships), High Charity (1000+ ships) and the fleet destroyed near the gas planet (300 ships) it looks like the covies lost a lot more in space than Humanity did. Discuss.

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  • I feel as though the only problem the UNSC had in space was inability to adapt their arsenal towards fighting a war against an equal or superior power. I find this problem exists with most of the UNSC's arsenal. They were totally prepared to fight Innsurrectionists, but no Covenant. Their weapon designs, like the MA5 chambered in 7.62, the Scorpion's strength against IEDs, but not weapon fire, and the heavy Titanium A on all their ships really show it. Fact is, some major improvements could have been made as soon as the Covenant were first fought that would have given the UNSC equal footing in space. 1. Remove the majority of Titanium A armor from all Frigate and Destroyer vessels. The armor did nothing anyway, and the tons of armor that was there simply made the ships slower, and used more reactor energy to move via thrusters. Removal of the armor would have allowed for more energy to go to the MAC guns. 2.Creation of smaller, more heavily armed ships. The UNSC desperately needed a Light Cruiser class, between Midlothian class destroyers and Halcyon cruisers. Something with a low profile, but two or more MAC guns capable of escorting fleets and attacking lower tonnage Covenant ships. Additionally they would have benifitted greatly by redesigning their ship layouts to be more like bigger versions of Stalwart Frigates: narrow and long, with a lower level flight deck. Designs like the Marathon were far too bulky, and one plasma torpedo amidships would blow open half the decks. 3. Ceased production of Archers, and other missile systems. Archers were crap against Covenant ships. They could be spoofed by EMPs, and even when their shields were down it still took 3 dozen of them to do any appreciable damage to their hull. The UNSC should have scrapped their design entirely and tried to develop a cool firing "torpedo" that would only adjust trajetory in microbursts rather than the solid hot burning Archers. Alternatively, they could have gone for the type of gun the Spirit of Fire used. Massive deck guns loaded with high explosives or even nuclear tipped warheads would have eaten Covenant ships.

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