All Halo Wars Maps Ranking and Breakdown
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- All Halo Wars Maps Ranking and Breakdown
Hey all, here is my latest Halo Wars project. I rank all of the maps from worst to best and give an overview on useful strategies and other things that you need to know about them. I hope you enjoy it.
Just a friendly reminder that this is purely opinion based on my experience.
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you are the sole hero keeping halo wars alive long live the prophet of regret
Thank you for all the support over the years water! You are an OG
Diohydrogen monoxide not gonna like this one
All hail the chair
Damn, really throwing shade at Team Respawn! Their a great channel, content is very nice
I pulled out my 360 for the first time in years & just played, for hours, the whole day just disappeared. Thank you.
Sounds like a good time
People still play halo wars on 360
I remember playing crevice in skirmish on the 360 version and the nighttime feature definitely worked right back then. The flood that spawned were also pretty dangerous I think and it was hard to keep the reactors early game.
I'm going to have to go back and check it out, definitely a missed feature
Yeah, I remember getting swarmed by the flying Flood in the central area.
Strange, I play on the 360, and I have never been attacked by actual Flood on Crevice. I have only had to deal with Flood spore clouds, which only affected ungarrisoned infantry that wasn't within the LOS of a base.
@@nickymejias5763 It was at night. Maybe my copy is glitched
me either no flog spawned after i m killed them.
"So, which leaders are good on this map?"
Anders, every single time
A N D E r s
Shame she fell off in the second game lol
Exile will always be dear to me. Played an absolute marathon of a game years ago as Cutter. Threw sooo many ODSTs into the meat grinder to draw fire so my teammate’s fully starred spartan Cobras wrecked Scarab after Scarab.
Exile can definitely be crazy!
Dang a 13 star cobra that's like a 25x damage boost
@@Raccoon12008 It was absurd. That game lasted like 2 hours, and we lost count of how many Scarabs got absolutely pummeled.
@@marcusfrisbee6940 yea I always ran lots of guass warthog surprisingly when they reach 3 star they do decent against some armored targets
@@marcusfrisbee6940Was it AI?
Having a 2-3 hour struggle to survive and win against legendary A.I. on Terminal Moraine is a experience no other map can match.
The isolated islands make amazing strongholds and a fun defense. Along with the chokepoint holo bridges that go out and can wipe out an entire invading force thats on it. ODSTs can hold the bridge like Spartans from the movie 300.
Terminal Moraine is my favorite because it feels like such an elevated experience compared to other maps.
This reminds me how much I loved playing this game all through elementary, middle, and high school. Terminal Moraine and Labyrinth were my go to's, with Exile a close 3rd.
Fun fact: Chasms was the only playable skirmish map on the demo back in the day. They really made a good decision there.
In crevice, they use to attack your main base at night, just the flying flood would pick away at your front turrets and supply pads.
Man, I remember those days - I always loved games where a third party existed to cause havoc the standard A vs B format. I love greater amounts of sides to team battles, they're interesting!
Did they change that? I never even noticed until he mentioned it in the video. I should check that out.
@@undercoverbreadbug2723 They must have, I think it was too busted.
Fort Deen is everyone's favorite because it is easier to defend compared to the other 3v3 maps. The number one reason is also because ODSTs shine on this map. If you have a really good Cutter on your team, it's game over.
My friends banned me from cutter and chieftain on deen. If you know how to glitch you can make chieftain just Skyrim the teleporter sides.
Crevice back in the day the flood did attack u at night time for 360 I remember that vividly
Just ran across this account and am so grateful this game is still alive. What an absolute gem!
Really great seeing someone consistently posting about halo wars
Never stopped playing this game one of the most underrated video games of all time
Appreciate you watching!
4:00 I think that sounds familiar. I loved Ravine I actually got it a lot.
Might’ve been my most played map. It’s weird how I loved it as a kid because now I can only play it a max of 3 times before it gets to much.
2v2 on the Docks brings me back. A friend and I used to grind Deathmatch using a strat that an RTS cheesemaster taught me and it was a ton of fun. For whatever reason, wraiths dealt bonus damage to structures in Deathmatch mode, particularly with their active ability, and I think many other units also had Deathmatch-specific balance adjustments. The cheese strat was to choose Prophet of Regret on whatever map and build 2 factories (I think) and rush the enemy bases using a mass wraith drop. My friend would play Sgt Forge, using early Warthogs and Grizzlies to defend me while I massed my deathball.
On Docks I would fly over the buildings in the middle of the map with the Prophet and clean house in, like, less than 5 minutes if the enemy team was not expecting it. But if the rush failed that's when the real fun began. The middle would become an insane meat grinder, and every push or flank could leave you vulnerable to air-based counterplay sent over the impassable terrain. It was a super dynamic, no frills map with crazy back and forth plays when we got a good match.
at 52:20 I was wondering where the "why are we here" tangent came from. My heart melted when the photo faded to the base of blood gulch and the memory hit me
That RvB reference hit me in the Nostalgia gut
Bro, you did Terminal Moraine dirty 💀
Even with little views, this is great documentation of a good game.
Thank you!
on xbox crevice at night flood spawn at the center and attack the base closest to the center. It only worked on the 360 version though. Both xbox one and pc versions don't work for some reason.
Very definitive of them.
@@orionl7406 It might have been a bug that was fixed.
@@DovahFettNo dice, still wishing the Flood were active again
It was a cut feature from the demo that briefly glitched back in but was patched out.
I remember that I thought it was a Mandela effect.
This video is fng gold, honestly, all ur vids are gold, but this kind of vids where you go and talk about the game, with tierlist or rankings, are the best, you are top tier turnip.
Eres increible.
Gracia Emmanuel!
Dunno why I'm getting recommended Halo Wars videos this many years later in my life, but as an ex-general Prophet spammer, I salute you brother.
Very happy i found your channel. Played this non stop on 360 and made it to general rank. Working my way up on DE. Hard to get games as very few players still play 💔
Welcome aboard!
Randomly rewatching and I love the little excerpt in 52:00
Thank you! watch out for those dirty blues!
Turnip, I just recently found your channel earlier this week and I've since binged all your content. Love your style to these vids, and really enjoy the overall fun you have with your videos. Can't wait to see you make it big! I think you could also branch out into other games in the future with no problem, keep building that audience. Keep up the the great work!
Edit: Great RvB reference
My Favorite maps-
1v1 Blood River
2v2 Docks
3v3 Frozen Valley
Thanks Luke! Im glad you have been enjoying it. I'm planning on branching out and I hope you will continue to enjoy the content. Maybe we can drive a Puma on Blood Gulch some day
@@TurnipVids Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?
Really thinking about it its those hooks as you call them that Halo Wars 2 maps were just lacking. None of the maps in Halo Wars 2 had anything like the healing towers, sentinel factories or shield walls. It really made HW2 feel very soulless in comparison to the first game.
I do miss that part of hw1
For me it was that plus the music style, plus the blink-and-your-army-dies powers. I didn't mind that everyone had heroes and powers but I missed HW 1 vibes
Crevice definitely had the flood attack at night on 360...
I love you turnip, you are the man
I really enjoyed looking for the skulls in this video, I missed a few gonna re watch again :)
I appreciate the love, it means a lot!
Thanks for including me at the end you are the best of TH-cam :)
You the best, gotta rep the OG's
Chasms, docks, and fort Deen my top three as well I think. Great video! However, I do think you vastly underestimated forge in ones. I think forge is better than cutter on almost every map in ones. i don't play a lot of ones though so who knows, but I for sure would take forge over cutter on almost every ones map.
Forge is great in 1s, especially vs covenant. I may give cutter the edge on blood gulch because elephant and on Pirth due to extra base. But I do wholeheartedly agree he is one of the best 1s leaders. Great to have you around shoe!
This is gonna be very informative thanks turnip love the content
Hope you enjoy! Thanks
It’s been a while since I played halo wars 1 but I swear the mega turret is somewhere else in the game, I’m thinking it’s somewhere on the last mission of the campaign.
Yes, it's in Arcadia Outskirts and the final mission I believe
Top left of last mission. You can steal it early
52:00 That execution of the RvB reference was golden XD XD
My favorite strategy in both halo wars game is rushing 15 hornets and 15 warthog at the enemy bass and just focus fire everything on their bass, or spam massive amounts of odsts, using those 2 strategies and just spamming them keeps your opponent trapped where they can't move if you do it really good
Labyrinth was the first 2v2 map I ever played and then also the first 2v2 map I ever won on. So that map will always have a special place in my heart. I would put it just behind docks in terms of my enjoyment of it.
"... The information you have gathered here is most appetizing." -
I've had hundreds of warthogs fall into the chasm on the concrete side of Fort Deen.
May they r.i.p
idk if you were just referring to multiplayer only, but there's a mega turret in the last mission that only spawns on easy I believe. great video btw!
He mentions a multiplayer map with a mega turrent
You are right! I checked into it and there is a mannable mega turret on that map! Totally forgot it. Thanks for watching
Ahh, yes. My old noob way of killing the Scarabs on that map.
Also in Arcadia Outskirts
Release is my favorite 1v1 map! I always immediately capture a flood gate and release it onto my side. Doing so can get you 3 star spartans in less than 10 mins. Slap said Spartans in some tanks, and you can demolish everything immediately with early veterancy. Doesn't work on High Skill opponents. But if you pull it off, and rush for tank upgrades (scorpions, not grizzlies), nothing will stop you. Not even 2 scarabs.
Edit: I've done this countless times in online matches. I can't even count the number of times I've made people rage quit over it. 🤣
They probably heard "Flood have been released" and were busy being confused
I love imagining that turnip is the prophet speaking to me in the intro
I’m so happy to see halo wars still be talked about I’ve been playing the shit outta this game
Glad you liked the vid! Stay tuned
Hey turnip on the docks at 53:35 you can pelican troops to that circle on top of the buildings. One time i parked wolverines there and shredded the enemys whole army of banshees and vampires.
Good point that I forgot to mention!
Ooh, I'm going to go practice that on the AI for a bit....
Mein got, you mad genius...
Terminal Moraine was probably my favorite map due being able to take the side bases and having a one minute grace period of being safe when the light bridges shut off and using your pelicans or teleport units to leader as a way to ferry units right into your enemy’s base.
As for Crevice, I kinda wished they had the night flood raid mechanic. It would have added so much chaos and feel like you were fighting a three way battle each time night fall came.
Blood Gulch is another favorite because, well, great call back and reference to such a classic map.
Terminal Morraine is goated
He's back!
Hi! 👋
You ought to do a video ranking all of the Halo Wars 1 Campaign Missions, worst to best!
I actually won a map on release due to the flood, I b-lined to the containment release area and got flood out early enough to delay the enemy while I built up. After that I released the flood at a constant rate until the enemy wasn’t able to hold off. ( I did raid their base and destroyed from of their buildings with hogs and ODSTs)
The Prophet is good for Repository since he can shoot down the sentinels and take the factory pretty early, his energy shield and leader power help with that too.
another high level halo wars video. Lets go
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Favorite 1v1 is probably Blood Gulch. Not a lot of space, but it's fairly straightforward (and bonus for it being a map based off an existing multiplayer map in the mainstream Halo series).
Favorite 2v2 is tied with Docks and Beasley's Plateau. One makes it easy to funnel in all enemy units save for air, the other has the build plots separate from the bases, which can be used for a variety of strategies if you build the right structures.
Favorite 3v3 is Fort Deen. I just like the look of the map, and the fact that the energy walls can block off every ground route possible to your opponents, allowing for a lot of control of both enemy and allied movement.
Halo Wars maps are super simple to understand.
The more snow, the more betterer they are.
when the original game came out i really enjoyed sending my scout over to the rear expansion on repository and taking it immediately, building warehouses on my main base. Id then start getting grunts n jackals trained up. It was so hilarious sometimes when the enemy team wouldn't know for 10+ minutes.
Gotta love how Forge’s upside is also a big downside; no wonder he sucks.
One thing about chasms is the fact that the one sode with the two paths to the expo if you lose your main base your enemy can pincer attack you and you're screwed so be careful to not loose your main base if you choose to take that expo
I still watch your content, thanks for uploading.
Eel, good to see you again. Thanks for watching
@@TurnipVids Looking for the secret skulls is fun too!
you forgot to thank Chrystaliana for additional technical support. XD
Thank you very much! You shall receive 100,000,000 blue crates in the afterlife! Sorry I forgot to include you :(
@@TurnipVids XD, no worries man, keep up the vids, cant wait for you to cover some of the mods the community has made.
In all Halo games I always like all the maps. Such a blessing imo. Only Halo Wars map I dont like is Labrynth.
thank you for this video, this is a 11/10 rating
Glad you liked it!
Love the RvB reference for blood gulch
So many good games on Fort Deen, Blood Gultch has always been easy for me but I guess it's because I've never played online on that map.
nice rvb reference for the blood gulch map
Glad you noticed!
Beasley's plateau is actually my favorite map, it's the only map where you can have three scarabs going at the same time in a normal match.
Quality content as always. Muchas felicidades Turnip!!! 🥺👌
¡Siempre! Mi amigo
Man this was awesome, great content :D
Loved the red vs blue reference 😂
Anders and the chieftain are clearly the best commanders in this game.
Good job
Thanks orca!
On a turnip marathon in 2025, Good content brother.
Thanks Jarpox!
33:40 looking at a skull 💀
You found one!
Exile is special to me as it was the map that finally got me to general rank
Glad this is finally out
Fort Deen just playing defense the entire match.
My fav 1v1 map is Tundra, 2v2 is The Docks, 3v3 is Fort Deen.
Balling choice
@@TurnipVids Thanks
45:29
Not to spill Actually juice, but isn’t there a player controllable Mega Turret in the final mission of the campaign?
Yes you are correct!
thats so cool
Oh this is what you were talking about!
nice
Noice
BROOOOOOOOOOOO more vids like this!
what we always did was wipe out some of npc base like flood and rebels bases because easy take down
god bless your videos
Hey Turnip, great video as always, but I wanted to ask if you could make a playlist for all your videos that are kind of like guides and tutorials? It'd make it a lot easier to find and watch them all from start to finish.
Done! They are now updated, thanks for the sugestion
@@TurnipVids Thank you so much man, just have you my sub to your channel, can't wait to see what comes out next!
@turnip vids Did you play Multiplayer on Xbox 360 when the game came out..?
Sure did! I started playing online aprox Oct of 2009
@@TurnipVids I wonder if you ever met Butcher343 or Jimbojoe. We played 3v3s together on the 360. Would be a small world if you recognized the names.
I swear the flood did used to spawn on crevice
15:53 heavily disagree. Forge is one of the strongest. You make your teamate send you a supply boost if you secure the bridges, giving you a fully upgraded eco within a minute of the game allowing you to go 3 + 4 supply pads into double reactor double tank production very early. I've seen 6 minute maxed out power turret armies from forge with the use of a covy ally and an early barracks for double reactor. It's literally insane how strong his eco is.
True he can get a strong early Eco, but it is very difficult to stop an early rush doing this
My favorite maps are release and pirth outskirts 1v1
2v2 is a tie between Labyrinth and Repository.
3v3 is Fort Dean and Frozen Valley
I miss these maps
Everyone knows Fort Deen is THE map
One of the few reasons I prefer Halo wars 1 over 2 was the maps
Labyrinth has been my favorite map cause I don’t play randoms we just gentleman to no factories
Skull at 14:52
I usually just turtle on the island bases of terminal moraine. Otherwise the Brute AI just rushes me (I never got to play online with my xbox). Then I build my forces while occasionally harssing the enemy.
In frozen valley I usually just resort to trench warfare depening on where I start. Otherwise (again) the brute chieftain might rush me.
Damn bro. The map I always pick when i crave some wars is Labyrinth. And you came out swingin hard on me 😢
dude, i play the flood maps mainly to troll, i troll in crevice by sacrificing units to the flood until the center is just filled with flood (i do this against ai cuz i already know what will happen if i do this against players) and release just to send waves on waves of flood to the enemy, along with hornets to sabotage the enemy's defenses (also against ai)
I wish they ported more HW1 maps to HW2, even if they would not work as well for HW2 it would be cool cause honestly HW1 had way better map design.
On tundra I have noticed that higher veted troops make it do more damage I don't know if that's true and i could be seeing things but I thought I point it out
Hmm I may have to look into this
i cant believe my favorite map is listed last.
we love this game it was so good
be careful though vet 3 full upgraded jackle snipers are no joke against cyclopes 1 shoters
Does anyone know what to do when an ally AI takes control of the laser barriers? How do I pass through??
Maybe you can try to flair them? Multiple flairs usually will move their troops
Mac Blast, Carpet Bomb, Chieftain Ball of Doom, Glassing From Above
13:00 for the best map
I LOVE FLOOD MAPs
Same! Thanks for watching
@@TurnipVids You make Nice Videos.