Thank you all for the nice comments, spent quite a few hours making this so it means a lot! To everyone complaining about the video not matching the established halo lore, this battle is not meant to show the Battle of Earth in october of 2552(the one from Halo 2). The video is made from animations from machinma I cancelled a while back, and is meant to show a covenant attack on earth during year 2546. The story is meant to be a alternate reality, starting with the spartans being killed during a surprise attack on the Pillar of Autumn and ending with humanity losing the war by blowing up both Earth along with the covenant fleet. I realize i never made this clear in the video itself, so I hope this brings a bit more clarity on what is shown.
I love the clip I understand you changed some aspects of the Halo law it simply dose not have some things in it like The Mark V "Super MAC" UNSC Orbital Defense Platforms or "ODPs" typically mount larger and more powerful versions of the standard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, nicknamed "super" MACs or "the big stick." These cannons fire a 3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at 12,000 kilometers per second, or 4% of the speed of light.[3] Against Covenant shield technology, the rounds possess enough kinetic energy to punch through shields, cut through the ship, and, upon exit, still retain enough energy to destroy a second ship, and cripple a third ship. It is theorized that if a ship's armor or shields were to absorb all the kinetic energy of a super MAC round, the release of thermodynamic energy would still vaporize the ship. By receiving power from ground-based power plants, orbital platforms could achieve recharge and reload times as short as five seconds 300 of these ODP where fully operational at the time of the attack.
For those too dumb to read the video description. Here it is for you: *The battle shows a "what if" situation based on alternate lore, and is not a representation of the Battle of Earth featured in Halo 2 and 3."
@@davidsmperio7344 there was a famous UNSC Admiral who blew up a covenant armada of over 500 warships. all of them were destroyed and yet the Covenent hierarchs just shrugged it off. they got a massive quantity of warships if they are able to shrug that loss off
@@davidsmperio7344 UNSC always had better tactics than the Covenant, but the covies had higher numbers, bigger ships and better tech, they had to outnumber covenant ships because of the shielding if not they could take them down with 2 or 3 mac shots UNSC frigates were quite small ships, not resiliant enough to fight alone against corvettes let alone entire cruisers so they had to gang up on them
Could you imagine being on Earth, looking up into the sky and seeing countless explosions like that? Knowing that the outcome of that battle determine whether or not humanity as a species will continue to survive?
I usually break them before they going to pillage. Not so hard using provocation and ambush. So my capital planet is safe. This alternative Earth should be also. Sci-fi western authors more "fi" than "sci". Invading fleet with hyperdrives would not be able to attack right after jump. And they would not be able to jump right to target. Who can open doors - can close it also. Earthers should be able to block close space from hyper-enter and flush outer space with suicide drones on the route of incoming enemy. Space invasion operation is nightmare for invader if defender have any comparable fleet.
which is why i do what a fallen empire says, unless either i know my allies can hold them back or there is enough distance between their territory and mine that i can ignore them
Besides the fact that they had no mines or anything, Earth's defense fleet was pretty pathetic. A group of 75 ships couldn't even handle a group of 15 unprepared covies. And then 1 straight up slipped by like "Oh don't mind me, ima just lewd all over ur base." Like damn. Aren't the MAC guns suppose to 1 shot ships every few seconds? What the heck are they doing?
Small lore complaint here, the actual Prophet assassination plan was to capture a Covenant ship with the Pillar of Autumn and use it, not use the Pillar. If they approached High Charity in a human ship, they would have been blown out of the sky and the UNSC knew that.
Actually, the story was made to based on the the original halo lore, but divert from it in 2544 when this story would take place. In this story, the covenant would have learned of the assassination plan and ambush the Pillar of Autumn, which is what you see in the video. It would have been explained further in the original machinima if I had finished it.
+TheBattlecruiser3D Ah, I see! A great animation regardless, though I wish you could have focused more on the capital ship battles rather than the Longswords and Seraphs flying around.
cannonfodder343 little bit of lore for you... high charity wasn't even known by the UNSC until Halo 2 when cortina discovered chat between truth and regret talking about their holy city of High Charity... that's the first time it becomes known... other than that you're good :)
Going by the size of the Covenant fleet in this battle, and the fact that there seems to be at least one supercarrier present, I take it that the Spartans were all killed off before the Unyielding Hierophant was destroyed.
more so master chief was. The lore to this alternate universe was that the pillar of autumn was ambushed and destroyed before it could land on Installation 04.
Actually, no. This what-if situation takes place in 2544. That means, Reach hasn't been destroyed yet, no CSOs yet, no Unyielding Hierophant... etc. This is basically what would happen if the UNSC had begun Operation: Red Flag earlier in the war, and if the Covenant also found Earth earlier.
@@e3nethan910 It wasn't. This was like the entire Covenant fleet that surrounded High Charity. The fleet that attacked Earth in the games was "smaller than the one that attack Reach", at first it was only 15 ships. Later into the battle, over 320 ships were deployed.
I love how lore accurate this actually is. If the autumn was destroyed over reach right after exiting slipspace, all of humanity's Spartan 2's and most of the Spartan 3's would have been killed because they were all on board for operation red flag, the assassination mission you mentioned. No one would have found halo, nor unyielding hierophant (covie Space Station from first strike). The fleet of particilar justice, high charity with her escort fleet (including over a thousand carriers and cruiser, as well as at least one supercarrier), truth's fleet around unyielding hierophant and truth's 2nd fleet would have all been on earth. Also the beginning of the war is portrayed pretty accurate, apart from the fact that you have the wrong shiptypes. (Paris class instead of Charon, halberd instead of hillsborough an sinaris pattern instead of rasus pattern)
You sir have done an amazing job, as a director and writer my self I admire your detail behind every frame and the camera movements from 5:58-6:05 for example are superb truly well shot and you can tell you put a lot of heart into this I'd love to work with you some day on a halo project of mine on another channel not this one I'm commenting on
if the UNSC recalled every UNSC vessel back to earth for this battle it would have been bigger than any battle seen in syfi in space trumping star wars out right. and if defended right 300 orbital super macs would shred the covenant fleet tearing even the biggest covenant ships apart and if the covenant fleet would have sent every ship they had to it would be a long long long battle lasting months on the ground and in space as thousands of ships engaged each other and the UNSC might have even resorted to using the nova bomb a planet cracking weapon to inflict damage on the aproching fleets but at what cost there's a reason they never use it
The machinima I was planning to make with these animations was going to differ a bit from the established halo lore, with the battle for earth taking place in 2545. The attack on earth was going to be a surprice attack, which is why the UNSC fleet protecting earth is so small. I changed a few of these thing for this video to make things work better, but much of this would have been explained if I had finished the actual Machinima. But you are correct about the end, the device detonated was a nova bomb.
Nate Carter if you take legends lore of star wars battle of yuzhan'tar would be much bigger it was all availble ships from alliance of empaire remnets new republic hapes consortium and all other galactic powers vs all remaining ships of youzhan vong race witch are extra galactic normadic invaders
Nate Carter there was not 1,000 ships during that battle, according to the real lord the humans had only like 8 cruisers and 75 frigates, and the Covenant found earth by accident, one prophet knew the location but didn't tell the others so when, another prophet found they were completely surprised they only had 13 ships and still broke through the lines and the fleet protecting Earth was destroyed "with only a handful of frigates left" the battle of reach was more exciting
Devin Harris Actually there were two battles for earth. The one you speak of is the battle you see in halo 2 in which the prophet of regret led a small fleet after finding out that there was a portal to the ark on earth, yet he didnt know that was earth. In the battle, the humans destroyed every single covenant ship except for regret's ship which ends up escaping later in the game. Now the second battle of earth happens at the end of halo 2 where truth takes the rest of the covenant armada to earth. This is where the 300 super macs come into play since they destroy most of truths fleet and is left only with the fleet you see on halo 3 yet the humans end up with only a "handful of frigates left".
Without orbital defense platforms this battle is more of a massacre than actual fight in space battles the UNSC was greatly outmatched by the technology of the covenant and battles were only won one of two ways for them 1) greatly outnumbered the enemy fleet (this still resulted in higher losses for the UNSC and was quiet rare to even happen for the UNSC) 2) tactically superior plays by the UNSC commander and AI assistant and even with such was very hard to pull off still the animation and feel go really well for this video would love to see one with all ODP over earth just unleashing hell onto a unaware covenant fleet
@ actually human ships have close range shooting that cover up holes slash damage dealt by enemy ships environmental damage guesses I could erode metalbasically they kind of do have shields
wow... just wow... the animation wasn't the best in the world but the effort and work put into this are amazing... and being a halo fan since the age of 4 years old, I've seen a lot of poorly made animations. Now I'm not saying this is poor but actually one of the best fan-made animations I've seen in a long time. This is an absolutely astonishing animation!
its hard for me to believe this video was made three years ago! i absolutely love it i have watched it over a dozen times its so awesome, the final battle to save humanity one which humanity knows they would lose so they had a nova bomb at the ready such a sad end for both the Covenant and humanity, truly amazing animated and "alternate lore" video, thanks for making it!
I could rip on this video but I also am impressed that you sat down, took the time to put it together, and shared it with the rest of the world for criticism. hater shit, and flak...and I couldn't do better myself so I will say thank you for sharing, good job, like the alternate story line, and you are going places if you stick to doing this . Don't let haters discourage you, I applaud your effort and creativity, but I am sad humanity lost. Thank you for that though, because it truly does point out how vulnerable humanity really is in the universe, and that in itself is reason to have humility as a species. This shows that as full of our own self importance as a species we are, we can be wiped from existence in a flash.
love the animations u did with this, the start of the main fight kind of gave me a Mass Effect 3 feel. my only real negative comment is that for the most part whenever UNSC ships were completely destroyed it was exactly the same as another ship being destroyed
I wonder if the actual Covenant invasion forces were as large as portrayed here. Because I know that this is a what if battle, and from what I know, after Regret's fleet was defeated, dozens of large Covenant fleets arrived, and later a big ass fleet belonging to Truth himself arrived to finish the fight.
That was awesome and wow, what an ending. The whole video was like a Halo version of Battle of the Line of Babylon 5, just the feel of it. The overawe effect truly filled the epic promise of the title. Thank you for sharing this.
Covenant: we have plasma, advanced shields, armor, and an overwhelming amount of troops. What you got? Humanity: Yah ever been nut punched by a tungsten rod travelling 4% the speed of light?
Holy fuck. The nova used to sacrifice earth to take out the whole covenant fleet and high charity... God damn. At least Mars will still be habitable and become the new human capital
Except the whole earth Mimbari war was stupid because Mimbari ships are impervious to earth ship weapons.... except when there is an important leader on board??? WTF?? - That's what you call the mother of all story screwups!
The Minbari ships weren't impervious to human weapons. They simply had advance stealth systems that prevented long distance target locks. For humans to get any of their shots to hit, they needed to get really close, which was near impossible as their ships were not only slower but the Minbari weapons were way more powerful and could hit from further range. For the moment with the important leader on board, the Earth ships were more than close enough to allow shots to hit not to mention that they fired first.
The movie shows various combat scenarios debunking all that and including an Earth ship colliding with a Mimbari ship but doing no damage to the Mimbari ship. So we know they can get close, and if they can get close they can fire nukes, but no, Mr Hero was the only one to think of using nukes - Funny how no one else thought of trying to use nukes during the entire war..... i mean its pretty obvious they would have the capacity to fire a large number of nukes the mimbari could not shoot them all down. The problem is they want to try and make it that only mr hero could destroy a mimbari ship, thats the mistake, and they have to stretch plausibility beyond its limit to do it.
Lol what, all those combat scenarios in that movie pretty much proved what I just stated in my other comment, lots of shots being fired and barely any if at all managed to hit, and that suicide run by the Earth Ship did destroy the Minbrai ship. In fact that ship was a prototype of the Omega Class we later see in the series, and the only reason it got close was because the Minbari let it get close as they were playing with the humans then and wanted to see what the humans would do. After that disaster, the Minbari never let human ships ever get that close again in subsequent battles. The only reason those nukes worked was because the crew of the Black Star was way too overconfident and didn't even bother to even think that it was possibly a trap and actually got close enough in the asteroid belt for the Nukes to work. Seriously we have ships capable of shooting energy bolts out of the sky in the series, shooting nukes in comparison would be even more easy as they would be travelling way more slower than energy bolts. Also, like I said before, Minbari have powerful stealth systems that prevents long distance target locks. Humans have to get really close for any form of good chance of actually hitting the Minbari ships. This means that any nukes fired, would have to be fired in really massive swarms to even have a chance of hitting Minbari ships and they would also be extremely close to the Minbari ships when the nukes do hit. Btw on a small side note here, its actually spelled Minbari, not Mimbari.
Probably the best halo space battle seen to date. Accuracy of ship designs and roles, size and scale! Some of the weapons could have been more accurate but the detail and scale is amazing. Well done.
so no orbital defense platforms, no archer missiles (enough human ships there to send about 150,000 missiles at the Covvie fleet), no shiva nuclear missiles, no huge nuclear mine fields (which destroyed hundreds of Covenent ships attacking Reach and Earth)? Humanity deserved to lose since they obviously didn't bring their A game.
@@Laldagarth I know, it just seems that it would have made the battle far more interesting had the humans had more than 10% of their arsenal at their disposal here. I'm sure it would have been a nightmare for an animator to simulate all of that though.
Jeez, can’t believe back then my friend was gonna use the space battle scenes in his Machinima. I can see why this was tempting to steal, good thing I told him to make his own bc stealing footage from other content creators isn’t worth it. Forgot to add, you did amazing work with this. Couldn’t believe I didn’t watch your video a while back! 😎👍
Eevee Fan :P The camera follows Anakin and Obi-Wan in their ships through a space battle. Just like in this one when the camera follows the Longswords during battle.
Hey you fellow connectors I just wanna point out this video is A WHAT IF situation it's not supposed to be full lore friendly so bigger off with your lore
For any one interested, there is a game for pc called Sins of a Solar Empire, which is a pretty great 4x space strategy game. Any way there's a mod for it called Sins of the Prophets, which is a halo mod. You can lead the unsc or the covenant, and play through the human-covenant war. It's really fun, there's even a flood survival mode, which is extremely challenging, since the flood can capture your ships and turn your fleet against you! I only mention this because, I feel like most people watching this would enjoy setting up their own halo space battles.
the unsc also had orbital battle stations and ships yards? not just the ships and the fleets of earth wasn't launched till the Covenant fleets of the prophet of regret was sent..
6:13 and the 3rd person camera of the longswords reminded me of the Battle over Coruscant in Star Wars. Dude this was an awesome job even if the lore doesn't fit with the battle.
Yes there are problems with the video, for example like every single UNSC MAC round missing (which wouldn't happen), but early UNSC ships at this time didn't have any shields.
@@electro3dm119 the only UNSC ship with shield was Infinity. During the whole war UNSC didnt developed ship shielding. And shipborne MAC,s can miss their Targets. They travel at 30.000 km per hours, so a far away covie ship can dodge it.
Nicely done. I'm always in the mood for some Halo lore. One tip: You will not see thick smoke in a non-oxygenated environment like the vacuum of space. And while I'm on it thick black smoke is always associated with petroleum oil fires. At any rate, nice work. 👌
just a little more lore here , that half of the covanants fleet was destroyed by masterchief and blue team before jumping to slipspace , and the prophet thought earth was another Colonie according to books , but animation was really well done keep making more!
Much more than half of their fleet was destroyed- hundreds of ships were, as well as a covenant Outpost world and it's moon. That fleet was staging there in preparation for an attack on Earth, once it's location was discovered. But then, the prophet of regret got a lead on an important forerunner artifact. So he took 14 ships to go check it out. He expected a deserted world or maybe a small, relatively unguarded colony. Instead, he blundered directly into the proverbial Hornets nest- humanity's core world defended by the home fleet of hundreds of ships as well as 300 MAC platforms.
Dude, this was awesome! The amount of work involved is pretty crazy and I really appreciate your motivation and passion for getting this on You Tube. Really liked it. Thank you!
This was awesome, I remember watching this years ago but it never ceases to amaze me. Now that I think about it’s kind of like the Halo’s version of the Battle of coruscant. Amazing job with this!
Oh and there wasn’t a full invasion fleet that came to Earth it was a small fleet with 9 capital ships and hundreds of cruisers and carriers and the high charity never came to Earth either
So in this "what if" this is if the glassing of Reach never happening? Ps. It is possible to live if part of a planet has been glassed by the coveneant forces.
I wonder which countries provided the most ships to defend Earth? I bet they could be the US, Russia and China, and most definitely the entire of Europe.
CapTonLoner actually in the lore, the countries of earth no longer exist. They were disbanded and united under the United Nations space command when the first slip space drives were invented.
If that’s what it says then sure. I got my info from Halo Legends and Contact Harvest. Either way, I’m sure after fist contact and the outbreak of war, all internal governments, means of production, and propaganda was taken over by the UNSC and ONI. I also doubt there were any shipyards at earth specifically, but I could be wrong on that.
Mexico? Last I heard they provided the best most awesome super dooper extravagant and electrifying armada ship, "The Taco Loco class destroyer ," able to launch high velocity forts after their crew had eaten some mad hot chili tacos....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love this video! VERY well done! I only have one minor thing to say. The way you portray the MAC guns is a little underwhelming, and this isn't just you, it's a common problem I see. Please, when making further Halo content, keep this in mind: a MAC fires its projectile at a significant proportion of the speed of light. So, when firing, they would look much less like the nice, prepackaged blobs of pew (yes, very scientific, I know), and more like a near instant streak of light, or a small pulse that goes super fast from the UNSC ship to its target. Other than that, thank you for the content, and keep up the great work!
I think the idea is something along the lines of "it looks cooler when travelling slower". *Edit: but those rounds did cross the field of battle in no time so maybe they were going alot faster than they seem.
You are wrong. Ship borne MACS dont travel at the speed of light, you are misunderstooding for the super MAC,s ( Cairo Station ). Unsc ship Mac guns travel at 30.000 km/h, so a covenant ship can dodge it
@@panzerrjcb I didn't say at the speed of light, I said at a significant proportion of the speed of light. A standard frigate-based MAC fires slugs of either ferric Tungsten or depleted Uranium measuring approximately 9.1 meters long at around 30 kilometers per second, around 0.01% the speed of light. Orbital Defense Platforms fire a 3,000-ton slug at four-hundredths, or 4% of, the speed of light, around 12,000 kilometers per second. Keep in mind, these are (relatively) small chunks of metal flying through space with no engine or real thermal signature. By the time especially the super MACs are fired, it's over, there's no dodging that with a large, lumbering ship. And that's also why the ships don't engage until a closer range, because their projectiles are smaller and slower. You are massively underestimating how fast these projectiles are, and massively overestimating the maneuverability of these massively large ships.
@@ktinga1 yheap. But im a sucker for Halo Lore and i have the fleet books, so i know what im saying: Frigate Macs are difficult to dodge but not impossible, and they lack the firepower to effectively destroy big Covie ships, unless used en masse. Anyway, the only weapon capable of destroying all Covenant ships relatively easily are Super MACs or Nova bombs, because UNSC Space tech are inferior to Covenant tech. Before the advent of Infinity, a single Covenant Carrier could wipe out a whole UNSC fleet ( and im not mentioning a 20 miles long supercarrier ), because according to Lore the Covenant ship Plasma Lances are overpowered ( 100.000km efective range, capable of tearing a unsc ship apart ) . No wonder UNSC lost the space battle and Many colonies burned.
@@panzerrjcb I'm not saying that frigate or cruiser MACs should destroy covie ships in one hit. I'm saying in my original comment that it should be a nearly instantaneous flash of something going off and then a hit on the covie's shields. You're trying to argue power when I'm agreeing with you about the power. I'm saying that it's not exactly easy to dodge something going that fast, but it's not gonna hurt so why bother? And yes, covie plasma lances are far more powerful and devastating to UNSC ships due to their lack of shields. You're trying to argue a point that isn't even up for debate.
Gota love the ship destruction in this thing , so many cgi things where convinient fireballs just 'deletes' things with no debris or acting is if space was an pressurised atmosphere that throw ship hulks about in 'tidal' motions as they died. gets a corner star from me for adding some debris to the explosions and giving a look of when ships are cut in half or such they dont start to spasm out more then what the 'direction' of the force that hit them pushes them in.
This is not entirely accurate. For instance, there have been many defence platforms (300) and only East Africa was glassed. Also, not every single human ship was destroyed.
Of course, because Regret didn't come to Earth to wipe out Humanity. He didn't even know it was Humanity's homeworld - just that the holy relic (the Ark) was on it somewhere. So when he arrived, the most his ships could do was occupy the Home Fleet while his ship deployed on Earth, in New Mombasa. Even when Truth showed up, the most he did was drive the UNSC into a hole even though he deployed more ships around Earth than Regret did (Cleveland for example). So the UNSC had a bit of firepower left - not much, but when Chief got back into the fight it was enough. As for the MAC platforms, Regret and Truth had to knock out a significant amount to have any sort of Dominion on Earth. Regret only destroyer the Athens and Malta to get access to New Mombasa - Truth? Who knows? But since Hood was safely reporting from the Cairo during Halo 3, there had to be some left over just not enough to coordinate any effective resistance.
You know, thinking about it, why didn't they just use the MAC platforms to bombard Covenant positions on Earth? I think a Super MAC would of been able to damage the Dreadnought as it took off for the portal. In fact, using the platforms might of made it unneeded to glass the entirety of Africa.
I haven't done any CGi stuff for almost 2 years now (what you see in the video is from 2014-2015). Any bigger projects would be difficult for me at the moment as I'm attending university, but a scene or two might be possible
Big Halo fan myself bro, you did a brilliant job with creating every scene within your video to overarch the Human-Covenant war (even if people say a few details are different but I actually appreciate this video) it gave me the Ol' chills I got when actually playing it :-)
Thank you all for the nice comments, spent quite a few hours making this so it means a lot! To everyone complaining about the video not matching the established halo lore, this battle is not meant to show the Battle of Earth in october of 2552(the one from Halo 2). The video is made from animations from machinma I cancelled a while back, and is meant to show a covenant attack on earth during year 2546. The story is meant to be a alternate reality, starting with the spartans being killed during a surprise attack on the Pillar of Autumn and ending with humanity losing the war by blowing up both Earth along with the covenant fleet.
I realize i never made this clear in the video itself, so I hope this brings a bit more clarity on what is shown.
TheBattlecruiser3D but the pillar of autumn is destroyed on installation 04????????
I love the clip I understand you changed some aspects of the Halo law it simply dose not have some things in it like The Mark V "Super MAC"
UNSC Orbital Defense Platforms or "ODPs" typically mount larger and more powerful versions of the standard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, nicknamed "super" MACs or "the big stick."
These cannons fire a 3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at 12,000 kilometers per second, or 4% of the speed of light.[3]
Against Covenant shield technology, the rounds possess enough kinetic energy to punch through shields, cut through the ship, and, upon exit, still retain enough energy to destroy a second ship, and cripple a third ship.
It is theorized that if a ship's armor or shields were to absorb all the kinetic energy of a super MAC round, the release of thermodynamic energy would still vaporize the ship. By receiving power from ground-based power plants, orbital platforms could achieve recharge and reload times as short as five seconds
300 of these ODP where fully operational at the time of the attack.
This is how we end as we needed more time but with 500 ships off the door step of reach and more pouring in we were not ready
TheBattlecruiser3D i've never played halo but I watched some of the cutscenes. Thanks for your vids, better realism than actual halo cutscenes.
jay song Wong you are so wrong
For those too dumb to read the video description. Here it is for you:
*The battle shows a "what if" situation based on alternate lore, and is not a representation of the Battle of Earth featured in Halo 2 and 3."
if they are to dumb to read the description why would they read this comment
There’s nothing more glorious then fighting and dying for Mother Earth
What about double fisting two chipotle burritos in the middle of a Darude rave blasting Sandstorm?
@@gdi1093 ...only on Tuesday.
Ave Imperium, Ave Terra!
It is our great duty to protect her
Yes there was to die on my planet but I chosen to be a seraphem between stars and castles
can you imagine being a fighter in this battle? seeing so many ships clumped up, and mostly being chased by more advanced ships.
Yeah that would be pretty overwhelming knowing how underpowered you are compared everything else..
normal people: we are outnumbered 100 to 10.
unsc: so it is a even fight.
Julio david alfaro samperio I think the joke flew over your head.
@@davidsmperio7344 there was a famous UNSC Admiral who blew up a covenant armada of over 500 warships. all of them were destroyed and yet the Covenent hierarchs just shrugged it off. they got a massive quantity of warships if they are able to shrug that loss off
@@davidsmperio7344 UNSC always had better tactics than the Covenant, but the covies had higher numbers, bigger ships and better tech, they had to outnumber covenant ships because of the shielding if not they could take them down with 2 or 3 mac shots
UNSC frigates were quite small ships, not resiliant enough to fight alone against corvettes let alone entire cruisers so they had to gang up on them
this joke kinda ironic since its the other way around. The UNSC always outnumbered the covenant ship wise
@@MrKillerVamp you are so damn wrong
1:11 When the Covenant is so powerful, their attacks blast the letters of the ship's name off the hull.
Lmao 😂 😂 😂
1:09
Like how some letters stay attached but nothing connecting them xd
Lmao I didn't even notice that
XD
Could you imagine being on Earth, looking up into the sky and seeing countless explosions like that? Knowing that the outcome of that battle determine whether or not humanity as a species will continue to survive?
@@GunsAndAmmo3The covenant attack multi cities and locations on Earth
@@GunsAndAmmo3 You do know the book and comics exist right?
@@GunsAndAmmo3 th-cam.com/video/0rZMLF4KJXQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=P-GKTAWu9Qyolfni
@@krane1155 yes.. they don't say that.. truth ONLY invaded Kenya and the surrounding area no other sources say otherwise
They attacked London is the halo infinite multiplayer trailer
Defending your capital planet from a Fallen Empire in Stellaris.
Pablo 11399 so true
I usually break them before they going to pillage. Not so hard using provocation and ambush. So my capital planet is safe. This alternative Earth should be also. Sci-fi western authors more "fi" than "sci". Invading fleet with hyperdrives would not be able to attack right after jump. And they would not be able to jump right to target. Who can open doors - can close it also. Earthers should be able to block close space from hyper-enter and flush outer space with suicide drones on the route of incoming enemy. Space invasion operation is nightmare for invader if defender have any comparable fleet.
which is why i do what a fallen empire says, unless either i know my allies can hold them back or there is enough distance between their territory and mine that i can ignore them
Besides the fact that they had no mines or anything, Earth's defense fleet was pretty pathetic. A group of 75 ships couldn't even handle a group of 15 unprepared covies. And then 1 straight up slipped by like "Oh don't mind me, ima just lewd all over ur base." Like damn. Aren't the MAC guns suppose to 1 shot ships every few seconds? What the heck are they doing?
LOL
Has been five years since I first watched this video and I still come back once in awhile to see this beautiful masterpiece
Halo's ships are the most beautiful in sci fi history
ehh the unsc ships are awesome in design, but i like the mass effect ships better.
Imo some are very cool (the frigates for example) and others are ugly in a good way (like the halcyon class light cruiser)
Small lore complaint here, the actual Prophet assassination plan was to capture a Covenant ship with the Pillar of Autumn and use it, not use the Pillar. If they approached High Charity in a human ship, they would have been blown out of the sky and the UNSC knew that.
Actually, the story was made to based on the the original halo lore, but divert from it in 2544 when this story would take place. In this story, the covenant would have learned of the assassination plan and ambush the Pillar of Autumn, which is what you see in the video. It would have been explained further in the original machinima if I had finished it.
+TheBattlecruiser3D Ah, I see! A great animation regardless, though I wish you could have focused more on the capital ship battles rather than the Longswords and Seraphs flying around.
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Two steps from hell: Never back down
He also forgot to use space banshees and seraphs.
cannonfodder343 little bit of lore for you... high charity wasn't even known by the UNSC until Halo 2 when cortina discovered chat between truth and regret talking about their holy city of High Charity... that's the first time it becomes known... other than that you're good :)
I mean this is a dream that will hopefully come true humanity finally united and strong together as one species.
Going by the size of the Covenant fleet in this battle, and the fact that there seems to be at least one supercarrier present, I take it that the Spartans were all killed off before the Unyielding Hierophant was destroyed.
more so master chief was. The lore to this alternate universe was that the pillar of autumn was ambushed and destroyed before it could land on Installation 04.
Actually, no. This what-if situation takes place in 2544. That means, Reach hasn't been destroyed yet, no CSOs yet, no Unyielding Hierophant... etc. This is basically what would happen if the UNSC had begun Operation: Red Flag earlier in the war, and if the Covenant also found Earth earlier.
@@dr.boring7022 I was about to say the same thing, plus, the Covenant had not fractured into civil war, yet.
I think the actual invasion fleet was also this size.
@@e3nethan910 It wasn't. This was like the entire Covenant fleet that surrounded High Charity. The fleet that attacked Earth in the games was "smaller than the one that attack Reach", at first it was only 15 ships. Later into the battle, over 320 ships were deployed.
the should put more space combat in halo
Ikr. The only space combat halo games are mods.
Not gonna mention halo reach? Though that was barely any space combat
Literally Halo Lore used mainly space battles
@The Four Horsemen Ah
Sins of the prophet?
I love how lore accurate this actually is. If the autumn was destroyed over reach right after exiting slipspace, all of humanity's Spartan 2's and most of the Spartan 3's would have been killed because they were all on board for operation red flag, the assassination mission you mentioned. No one would have found halo, nor unyielding hierophant (covie Space Station from first strike). The fleet of particilar justice, high charity with her escort fleet (including over a thousand carriers and cruiser, as well as at least one supercarrier), truth's fleet around unyielding hierophant and truth's 2nd fleet would have all been on earth.
Also the beginning of the war is portrayed pretty accurate, apart from the fact that you have the wrong shiptypes. (Paris class instead of Charon, halberd instead of hillsborough an sinaris pattern instead of rasus pattern)
The space battle sequence that starts around 6:03 is oddly reminiscent of the opening space battle in Revenge of the Sith.... I like it
You sir have done an amazing job, as a director and writer my self I admire your detail behind every frame and the camera movements from 5:58-6:05 for example are superb truly well shot and you can tell you put a lot of heart into this I'd love to work with you some day on a halo project of mine on another channel not this one I'm commenting on
"The fleet that destroyed Reach was 50x this size" He said, SHOULD OF KEPT YOUR MOUTH SHUT GOOD SIR!
REACH*
christian siple No shit sherlock. This video isn't even based on Halo's final lore.
@@linusmlgtips2123 He was just saying that for fun. Chill buddy. No point in shooting him or her down like that.
@@boopjack9522 after 4 years of never getting a notification, and coming back to this myself, I have corrected it to Reach
@@someolfellow1094 i don't even remember watching the video this comment is from
The effort and skill this must’ve taken is amazing. Good job. This is probably the best Halo Space Battle made of CGI.
This is the cgi no one asked for, but we all needed this is freaking awesome
Imagine in halo 6 we get something like this in the final mission,going from ship to ship trying to defend earth from cortana’s guardians
Only instead of this. Its all factions defending the galaxy from cortana and atriox
Wa ge yepp
yeah no, it didnt happen
Bruh
if the UNSC recalled every UNSC vessel back to earth for this battle it would have been bigger than any battle seen in syfi in space trumping star wars out right. and if defended right 300 orbital super macs would shred the covenant fleet tearing even the biggest covenant ships apart and if the covenant fleet would have sent every ship they had to it would be a long long long battle lasting months on the ground and in space as thousands of ships engaged each other and the UNSC might have even resorted to using the nova bomb a planet cracking weapon to inflict damage on the aproching fleets but at what cost there's a reason they never use it
The machinima I was planning to make with these animations was going to differ a bit from the established halo lore, with the battle for earth taking place in 2545. The attack on earth was going to be a surprice attack, which is why the UNSC fleet protecting earth is so small. I changed a few of these thing for this video to make things work better, but much of this would have been explained if I had finished the actual Machinima. But you are correct about the end, the device detonated was a nova bomb.
Nate Carter if you take legends lore of star wars battle of yuzhan'tar would be much bigger it was all availble ships from alliance of empaire remnets new republic hapes consortium and all other galactic powers vs all remaining ships of youzhan vong race witch are extra galactic normadic invaders
Nate Carter there was not 1,000 ships during that battle, according to the real lord the humans had only like 8 cruisers and 75 frigates, and the Covenant found earth by accident, one prophet knew the location but didn't tell the others so when, another prophet found they were completely surprised they only had 13 ships and still broke through the lines and the fleet protecting Earth was destroyed "with only a handful of frigates left" the battle of reach was more exciting
Devin Harris Actually there were two battles for earth. The one you speak of is the battle you see in halo 2 in which the prophet of regret led a small fleet after finding out that there was a portal to the ark on earth, yet he didnt know that was earth. In the battle, the humans destroyed every single covenant ship except for regret's ship which ends up escaping later in the game. Now the second battle of earth happens at the end of halo 2 where truth takes the rest of the covenant armada to earth. This is where the 300 super macs come into play since they destroy most of truths fleet and is left only with the fleet you see on halo 3 yet the humans end up with only a "handful of frigates left".
Nate Carter Thank you for explaining this I was reading through the comments and I was starting to lose myself ._.
large scale battles are the best , this was awesome! and the reach character scenes were great too
The "Mother of Invention" was out there, with all 49 freelancers, and one dead Georgia 😂
Someone please get that reference
what ever did happen to Georgia anyway
No one knows
lol i got ya
Really tho what happened to Georgia
Without orbital defense platforms this battle is more of a massacre than actual fight in space battles the UNSC was greatly outmatched by the technology of the covenant and battles were only won one of two ways for them 1) greatly outnumbered the enemy fleet (this still resulted in higher losses for the UNSC and was quiet rare to even happen for the UNSC) 2) tactically superior plays by the UNSC commander and AI assistant and even with such was very hard to pull off still the animation and feel go really well for this video would love to see one with all ODP over earth just unleashing hell onto a unaware covenant fleet
Badass.
All i can say.
I liked it when the longswords were battling the banshees.
@PwnishPR 5:09
PwnishR in the lore the covenant were far superior and humanity didn’t have the power yet to do
@ actually human ships have close range shooting that cover up holes slash damage dealt by enemy ships environmental damage guesses I could erode metalbasically they kind of do have shields
messa thought youssa was dead
wow... just wow... the animation wasn't the best in the world but the effort and work put into this are amazing... and being a halo fan since the age of 4 years old, I've seen a lot of poorly made animations. Now I'm not saying this is poor but actually one of the best fan-made animations I've seen in a long time. This is an absolutely astonishing animation!
This is the greatest last stand video I have ever seen
its hard for me to believe this video was made three years ago! i absolutely love it i have watched it over a dozen times its so awesome, the final battle to save humanity one which humanity knows they would lose so they had a nova bomb at the ready such a sad end for both the Covenant and humanity, truly amazing animated and "alternate lore" video, thanks for making it!
Yea ikr really like the show real to
When the ships exploded they looked like legos.
I have PTSD now
My mind: *Liked that*
The music sounds like it's from battle star Galactica at the beginning. Good job.
YUP, NOW JUST SEND IN THE GALACTICA SIT BACK A WATCH THE SHOW!
Sage Frizzell That's because it is! :0
yay more BSG fans
I love Halo the history is very interesting and the design of the starships are precious
I could rip on this video but I also am impressed that you sat down, took the time to put it together, and shared it with the rest of the world for criticism. hater shit, and flak...and I couldn't do better myself so I will say thank you for sharing, good job, like the alternate story line, and you are going places if you stick to doing this . Don't let haters discourage you, I applaud your effort and creativity, but I am sad humanity lost. Thank you for that though, because it truly does point out how vulnerable humanity really is in the universe, and that in itself is reason to have humility as a species. This shows that as full of our own self importance as a species we are, we can be wiped from existence in a flash.
Final with NOVA Bomb amazing
humans just went if we are going down your coming with us
love the animations u did with this, the start of the main fight kind of gave me a Mass Effect 3 feel. my only real negative comment is that for the most part whenever UNSC ships were completely destroyed it was exactly the same as another ship being destroyed
I wonder if the actual Covenant invasion forces were as large as portrayed here. Because I know that this is a what if battle, and from what I know, after Regret's fleet was defeated, dozens of large Covenant fleets arrived, and later a big ass fleet belonging to Truth himself arrived to finish the fight.
WHO WON?
WHO'S NEXT?
YOU DECIDE!
It shows we will not go quietly into the night.
This was the best EPIC space battle I've ever seen! IT'S AWESOME!!!!!
I guess the only thing to call this is...
It's a MASTER piece!
I'll leave now...
Commander Jerome-092 shame on you,jerome. Shame on you
*facepalm* I'm still wondering why Atriox kept you alive...
8:04 RIP Spain
8:09 RIP Everybody
What about the spainish inquisition
I'm Blue
Rip Portugal
That was awesome and wow, what an ending. The whole video was like a Halo version of Battle of the Line of Babylon 5, just the feel of it. The overawe effect truly filled the epic promise of the title. Thank you for sharing this.
"every SPARTAN is sent in a mission to assassinate the covenant"
6:10 seeing that stalwart class frigate broadsiding that covenant cruiser was lit, longswords flying through too. Nice!
The astartes are en route brothers. Emperor be with you.
Natheria
Hope isnt the Grey knigths
The Spartans' mission was not to assassinate the Covenant leadership but to capture a leader to force a peace treaty
Alright boys we gotta get admiral cole to knock out this war for us
Covenant: we have plasma, advanced shields, armor, and an overwhelming amount of troops. What you got?
Humanity: Yah ever been nut punched by a tungsten rod travelling 4% the speed of light?
*and a big ass bomb*
And an angry green boi with a naked blue robot inside his Head.
8:04 Earth: I don't feel so good!
The explosions in this video just look amazing.
Holy fuck. The nova used to sacrifice earth to take out the whole covenant fleet and high charity... God damn. At least Mars will still be habitable and become the new human capital
Never get tired of this video, love the BattleStar Galactica vibes.
THE BATTLE OF THE LINE HALO STYLE!!!
Except the whole earth Mimbari war was stupid because Mimbari ships are impervious to earth ship weapons.... except when there is an important leader on board??? WTF?? - That's what you call the mother of all story screwups!
The Minbari ships weren't impervious to human weapons. They simply had advance stealth systems that prevented long distance target locks. For humans to get any of their shots to hit, they needed to get really close, which was near impossible as their ships were not only slower but the Minbari weapons were way more powerful and could hit from further range. For the moment with the important leader on board, the Earth ships were more than close enough to allow shots to hit not to mention that they fired first.
The movie shows various combat scenarios debunking all that and including an Earth ship colliding with a Mimbari ship but doing no damage to the Mimbari ship. So we know they can get close, and if they can get close they can fire nukes, but no, Mr Hero was the only one to think of using nukes - Funny how no one else thought of trying to use nukes during the entire war..... i mean its pretty obvious they would have the capacity to fire a large number of nukes the mimbari could not shoot them all down. The problem is they want to try and make it that only mr hero could destroy a mimbari ship, thats the mistake, and they have to stretch plausibility beyond its limit to do it.
Lol what, all those combat scenarios in that movie pretty much proved what I just stated in my other comment, lots of shots being fired and barely any if at all managed to hit, and that suicide run by the Earth Ship did destroy the Minbrai ship. In fact that ship was a prototype of the Omega Class we later see in the series, and the only reason it got close was because the Minbari let it get close as they were playing with the humans then and wanted to see what the humans would do. After that disaster, the Minbari never let human ships ever get that close again in subsequent battles. The only reason those nukes worked was because the crew of the Black Star was way too overconfident and didn't even bother to even think that it was possibly a trap and actually got close enough in the asteroid belt for the Nukes to work.
Seriously we have ships capable of shooting energy bolts out of the sky in the series, shooting nukes in comparison would be even more easy as they would be travelling way more slower than energy bolts. Also, like I said before, Minbari have powerful stealth systems that prevents long distance target locks. Humans have to get really close for any form of good chance of actually hitting the Minbari ships. This means that any nukes fired, would have to be fired in really massive swarms to even have a chance of hitting Minbari ships and they would also be extremely close to the Minbari ships when the nukes do hit.
Btw on a small side note here, its actually spelled Minbari, not Mimbari.
are you talking about sheridan & his minefield?
Probably the best halo space battle seen to date. Accuracy of ship designs and roles, size and scale! Some of the weapons could have been more accurate but the detail and scale is amazing. Well done.
so no orbital defense platforms, no archer missiles (enough human ships there to send about 150,000 missiles at the Covvie fleet), no shiva nuclear missiles, no huge nuclear mine fields (which destroyed hundreds of Covenent ships attacking Reach and Earth)? Humanity deserved to lose since they obviously didn't bring their A game.
Where's your Halo Battle animation?
@@22steve5150 lol
@@22steve5150 Its more like a "What if" not what actually happened.
@@Laldagarth I know, it just seems that it would have made the battle far more interesting had the humans had more than 10% of their arsenal at their disposal here. I'm sure it would have been a nightmare for an animator to simulate all of that though.
You know only 25% of the unsc fleet was at earth
this is the best fleet battle ever made
Hope you know what I mean when I say this is very Coruscant-ish
Necro I know what you meN
But when the cis attacked it was a surprise the unsc knew this was happening and sent all their ships to earth
Wow 22yrs. I’m glad I was part of it 🥹
this should have more view
MegaAnthony757 share ¡t. I will, advertise ¡t. Its good work and i'll share ¡t on facebook
No sound in space
Last Shadow Facebook!!? U might as well share it on My Space too
MegaAnthony757 this will mislead a lot of new players, because it's not real lore.
Jeez, can’t believe back then my friend was gonna use the space battle scenes in his Machinima. I can see why this was tempting to steal, good thing I told him to make his own bc stealing footage from other content creators isn’t worth it.
Forgot to add, you did amazing work with this. Couldn’t believe I didn’t watch your video a while back! 😎👍
I'm still surprised that the prophets managed to trick so many into believing their lies.
WOW, Well done. I hope you make more of these cool videos. This should have a lot more views.
Does this remind anyone else of Star Wars Episode III Beginning Scene?
VortexTV Brickfilms and More! Havent watched it in a while
Eevee Fan :P The camera follows Anakin and Obi-Wan in their ships through a space battle. Just like in this one when the camera follows the Longswords during battle.
Honestly, I thought I was the only one who thought this.
And that their ships are practically everywhere
6:55 Awesome camera manipulation there, that was pretty epic.
Hey you fellow connectors I just wanna point out this video is A WHAT IF situation it's not supposed to be full lore friendly so bigger off with your lore
For any one interested, there is a game for pc called Sins of a Solar Empire, which is a pretty great 4x space strategy game. Any way there's a mod for it called Sins of the Prophets, which is a halo mod. You can lead the unsc or the covenant, and play through the human-covenant war. It's really fun, there's even a flood survival mode, which is extremely challenging, since the flood can capture your ships and turn your fleet against you!
I only mention this because, I feel like most people watching this would enjoy setting up their own halo space battles.
Ill be honest, this reminds me a lot of the first space battle in revenge of the sith. Very good job.
greT video my guy, the animations are great and probably so of the best i’ve seen yet.
the unsc also had orbital battle stations and ships yards?
not just the ships
and the fleets of earth wasn't launched till the Covenant fleets of the prophet of regret was sent..
Reality-Flash492003160 IKR
Alternate Lore its a what if situation
Read description
Earth had more then 300 orbital defense platform.
( really big rail gun that can cut through 2 covenant ships at once when in range )
6:13 and the 3rd person camera of the longswords reminded me of the Battle over Coruscant in Star Wars. Dude this was an awesome job even if the lore doesn't fit with the battle.
Right when Covenant Ships fired on UNSC their shield energies were down due to re routing to download covenant porns ... Nonsense.
Yes there are problems with the video, for example like every single UNSC MAC round missing (which wouldn't happen), but early UNSC ships at this time didn't have any shields.
@@electro3dm119 That was a large covenant fleet. Maybe those Mac's that looked like they were missing were actually going for another ship off screen.
@@electro3dm119 the only UNSC ship with shield was Infinity. During the whole war UNSC didnt developed ship shielding.
And shipborne MAC,s can miss their Targets. They travel at 30.000 km per hours, so a far away covie ship can dodge it.
Nicely done. I'm always in the mood for some Halo lore. One tip: You will not see thick smoke in a non-oxygenated environment like the vacuum of space. And while I'm on it thick black smoke is always associated with petroleum oil fires. At any rate, nice work. 👌
its accurate to 3 and 2 innit
just a little more lore here , that half of the covanants fleet was destroyed by masterchief and blue team before jumping to slipspace , and the prophet thought earth was another Colonie according to books , but animation was really well done keep making more!
Much more than half of their fleet was destroyed- hundreds of ships were, as well as a covenant Outpost world and it's moon. That fleet was staging there in preparation for an attack on Earth, once it's location was discovered.
But then, the prophet of regret got a lead on an important forerunner artifact. So he took 14 ships to go check it out. He expected a deserted world or maybe a small, relatively unguarded colony. Instead, he blundered directly into the proverbial Hornets nest- humanity's core world defended by the home fleet of hundreds of ships as well as 300 MAC platforms.
Angel Espino a
The profit of Regret was an idiot
the way the UNSC ships fall apart after being exploded is, very nice. Keep up the great work mate.
"Epic CGI Space Battle"... aww man I was hoping for a live-action one...
Lol
It's the fact that the UNSC could do nothing even with their Orbital Mac Cannons. That sense of dread will always get me.
True Fans watch this in 144p !
Dude, this was awesome! The amount of work involved is pretty crazy and I really appreciate your motivation and passion for getting this on You Tube. Really liked it. Thank you!
So the covenant hate spain XD
sparrowJLT The UNSC did that. It was a NOVA bomb
@@tearfullotus5397 wouldn't the nova bomb destroy the planet
@@hawkinsgames5773 well i would rather die by my own kinds weapons than some space boiz
This was awesome, I remember watching this years ago but it never ceases to amaze me. Now that I think about it’s kind of like the Halo’s version of the Battle of coruscant. Amazing job with this!
where's the UNSC INFINITI when you need it
Yusei Fudo Non-existent at the time :)
Not built yet in this time, until 4 or 5 years later like when functionality and service in Halo 4
Still being built
"Somthing dark is coming" from Battlestar galactica.
Amazing choice
Oh and there wasn’t a full invasion fleet that came to Earth it was a small fleet with 9 capital ships and hundreds of cruisers and carriers and the high charity never came to Earth either
Ironside this a scenario where the Cole Protocol didn’t work
They found earth around 2545 in this scenario
wow awesome bro its pretty good for a short time hope you make it a bit longer.
So in this "what if" this is if the glassing of Reach never happening? Ps. It is possible to live if part of a planet has been glassed by the coveneant forces.
Meghan Hammond well, we would have a bigger fighting force, and more spartans. Life would probably be easier for everyone
Meghan Hammond it's possible to live in a half glassed planet
But I doubt the Covenant will stop at half
Meghan Hammond its possible like the robot things I forgot their name
I like the use of battlestar music in the start. Ik they are 2 very different Sci fis but bsg has some great atmospheric stuff, good choice
So basically this is like Halo's version of the Battle Of Coruscant from Star Wars Episode 3? O3o
"Something dark is coming" Perfect song king
I wonder which countries provided the most ships to defend Earth? I bet they could be the US, Russia and China, and most definitely the entire of Europe.
CapTonLoner actually in the lore, the countries of earth no longer exist. They were disbanded and united under the United Nations space command when the first slip space drives were invented.
In the lore, it also says the US, Canada and Mexico united to create the United Republic of America, so I'm not so sure about that.
If that’s what it says then sure. I got my info from Halo Legends and Contact Harvest. Either way, I’m sure after fist contact and the outbreak of war, all internal governments, means of production, and propaganda was taken over by the UNSC and ONI. I also doubt there were any shipyards at earth specifically, but I could be wrong on that.
It started as US. Then engulfed the whole world once slip space was invented
Mexico? Last I heard they provided the best most awesome super dooper extravagant and electrifying armada ship, "The Taco Loco class destroyer ," able to launch high velocity forts after their crew had eaten some mad hot chili tacos....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
very impressed with what you managed to do with such an old version of max. will have to show my students for sure
I love this video! VERY well done! I only have one minor thing to say. The way you portray the MAC guns is a little underwhelming, and this isn't just you, it's a common problem I see. Please, when making further Halo content, keep this in mind: a MAC fires its projectile at a significant proportion of the speed of light. So, when firing, they would look much less like the nice, prepackaged blobs of pew (yes, very scientific, I know), and more like a near instant streak of light, or a small pulse that goes super fast from the UNSC ship to its target. Other than that, thank you for the content, and keep up the great work!
I think the idea is something along the lines of "it looks cooler when travelling slower".
*Edit: but those rounds did cross the field of battle in no time so maybe they were going alot faster than they seem.
You are wrong.
Ship borne MACS dont travel at the speed of light, you are misunderstooding for the super MAC,s ( Cairo Station ).
Unsc ship Mac guns travel at 30.000 km/h, so a covenant ship can dodge it
@@panzerrjcb I didn't say at the speed of light, I said at a significant proportion of the speed of light. A standard frigate-based MAC fires slugs of either ferric Tungsten or depleted Uranium measuring approximately 9.1 meters long at around 30 kilometers per second, around 0.01% the speed of light. Orbital Defense Platforms fire a 3,000-ton slug at four-hundredths, or 4% of, the speed of light, around 12,000 kilometers per second. Keep in mind, these are (relatively) small chunks of metal flying through space with no engine or real thermal signature. By the time especially the super MACs are fired, it's over, there's no dodging that with a large, lumbering ship. And that's also why the ships don't engage until a closer range, because their projectiles are smaller and slower. You are massively underestimating how fast these projectiles are, and massively overestimating the maneuverability of these massively large ships.
@@ktinga1 yheap.
But im a sucker for Halo Lore and i have the fleet books, so i know what im saying: Frigate Macs are difficult to dodge but not impossible, and they lack the firepower to effectively destroy big Covie ships, unless used en masse.
Anyway, the only weapon capable of destroying all Covenant ships relatively easily are Super MACs or Nova bombs, because UNSC Space tech are inferior to Covenant tech. Before the advent of Infinity, a single Covenant Carrier could wipe out a whole UNSC fleet ( and im not mentioning a 20 miles long supercarrier ), because according to Lore the Covenant ship Plasma Lances are overpowered ( 100.000km efective range, capable of tearing a unsc ship apart ) .
No wonder UNSC lost the space battle and Many colonies burned.
@@panzerrjcb I'm not saying that frigate or cruiser MACs should destroy covie ships in one hit. I'm saying in my original comment that it should be a nearly instantaneous flash of something going off and then a hit on the covie's shields. You're trying to argue power when I'm agreeing with you about the power. I'm saying that it's not exactly easy to dodge something going that fast, but it's not gonna hurt so why bother? And yes, covie plasma lances are far more powerful and devastating to UNSC ships due to their lack of shields. You're trying to argue a point that isn't even up for debate.
Gota love the ship destruction in this thing , so many cgi things where convinient fireballs just 'deletes' things with no debris or acting is if space was an pressurised atmosphere that throw ship hulks about in 'tidal' motions as they died.
gets a corner star from me for adding some debris to the explosions and giving a look of when ships are cut in half or such they dont start to spasm out more then what the 'direction' of the force that hit them pushes them in.
This is not entirely accurate. For instance, there have been many defence platforms (300) and only East Africa was glassed. Also, not every single human ship was destroyed.
Which went through the portal?
Of course, because Regret didn't come to Earth to wipe out Humanity. He didn't even know it was Humanity's homeworld - just that the holy relic (the Ark) was on it somewhere. So when he arrived, the most his ships could do was occupy the Home Fleet while his ship deployed on Earth, in New Mombasa.
Even when Truth showed up, the most he did was drive the UNSC into a hole even though he deployed more ships around Earth than Regret did (Cleveland for example).
So the UNSC had a bit of firepower left - not much, but when Chief got back into the fight it was enough.
As for the MAC platforms, Regret and Truth had to knock out a significant amount to have any sort of Dominion on Earth. Regret only destroyer the Athens and Malta to get access to New Mombasa - Truth? Who knows? But since Hood was safely reporting from the Cairo during Halo 3, there had to be some left over just not enough to coordinate any effective resistance.
You know, thinking about it, why didn't they just use the MAC platforms to bombard Covenant positions on Earth? I think a Super MAC would of been able to damage the Dreadnought as it took off for the portal. In fact, using the platforms might of made it unneeded to glass the entirety of Africa.
Turbofurby because firing a MAC cannon on the earth to destroy the covenant ships would do more damage than them glassing the hell out of us?
READ THE FUKIN DESC
Wow. This is glorious. The scale of everything, the stakes, the animation... very nice.
Still love your stuff 👍
do you still do CGI stuff like this for other channels?
I haven't done any CGi stuff for almost 2 years now (what you see in the video is from 2014-2015). Any bigger projects would be difficult for me at the moment as I'm attending university, but a scene or two might be possible
alright man, well good luck at university ill be there in a few years.
TheBattlecruiser3D If I may ask, what programs did you use to make this video?
I used 3ds Max 2013 for the animations and Adobe After Effects CS6 for compositing
Big Halo fan myself bro, you did a brilliant job with creating every scene within your video to overarch the Human-Covenant war (even if people say a few details are different but I actually appreciate this video) it gave me the Ol' chills I got when actually playing it :-)
This is more like the battle of reach than earth... Just saying
Isaacreeper yeah cause the UNSC and UEG had to protect their home world
This is excellent my friends. This Title is One of they Best. Thanks.
Dude your lore is completely wrong
Arbiter Of demons I gotta agree with him cool job tho Spartans where made to fight Rebel colonies
caleb wilhite true. but they work very well against aliens too. but the death counts are high for Spartans.
Arbiter Of demons That's because it's a alternative lore to shoe what would happen if the pillar of autumn was destroyed.
Arbiter Of demons I'm pretty sure this is more of a "What if" scenario.
This is like a alternate/ what if
This wins my Oscar vote for best cinematography.