[haloboy100]

600,000 drop pods? seems a little impractical.

[Game_Master64]

but it would be a hell of a show

[haloboy100]

yes, it would

[Hades]

I wish halo had a Working Map maker.

[haloboy100]

I wish halo had a Working Map maker.

Talk about a totally unrelated post...

[Hades]

No its so i could make a map like that. Were 900 pods are landing.Like whaat were talking agbout

[haloboy100]

No its so i could make a map like that. Were 900 pods are landing.Like whaat were talking agbout

Trust me, if it were possible, it would be done and over with by now.

[foolfromhell]

You really think there would stick troop transports so huge, thus expensive, in the same star system as Alpha 1?
Command isnt THAT dumb! Alpha 1 only goes into the most dangerous situations, and they would never risk a transport in the same star system!

[TrashMan]

perhaps drop pods? (i think that's what dekker is talking about), kind of like the thing the covenant do in halo, just drop them from orbit

"It's rainign Men, alelujah! It's raining men....."

[Game_Master64]

I wish halo had a Working Map maker.

i think halo 2 vista has one, i'm not certain though. any way, back to the main topic

[haloboy100]

They do. And ya, back on topic, sending 600,000 pods down, some of them might not even make it to begin with, the rest would be blown up by AAA cannons and flak shells (since there is no reason flak cannons aren't used in atmospheric conditions, right?)

[Gamma_Draconis]

That sounds like a horrible method of deploying your men. I'm pretty sure they'll have some air support to take our initial ground defenses and most likely have some sort of transport ship, maybe an Argo or Elysium, land on the surface. That brings me to the next question, how do they get fighters and bombers in the air? Are there such things as hybrid fighters?

[haloboy100]

Is there any reason why you can't use space fighters in the air?

[Gamma_Draconis]

Well first of all, Space Fighters don't really have a good surface to achieve lift in the atmosphere. They will have a very difficult time flying straight and its pretty much suicide. Leave the atmospheric flying to the atmospheric fighters.

[Batman]

They probably use dropships similar to the ones in Starship Troopers. There were a lot of infantry on the ground in that movie.

You could make a hybrid fighter, it would most likely need two kinds of propulsion systems because i don't see something thats affective in space being efficient in the atmosphere and a jet engine wouldn't work in space. A pure space fighter or a pure atmospheric fighter would be much better in their respective environments.

[haloboy100]

[Gamma_Draconis]

Wow, my post inspired someone to register! Can I have a cookie?

Can Argo and Elysium transports land and take off on a planet? It would be neat to see those blocky little ships land and dropping off a company of soldiers and tanks. Will atmospheric fighters be large or small? The space fighters on FS are huge.

[TrashMan]

Well first of all, Space Fighters don't really have a good surface to achieve lift in the atmosphere. They will have a very difficult time flying straight and its pretty much suicide. Leave the atmospheric flying to the atmospheric fighters.

anti-grav drives....nuff said.

[foolfromhell]

How do you know there are anti-grav drives in the FS2 universe?

[TrashMan]

Assumption...looking at the mina halls from FS1 and 2 I get the imporession of advanced tech.
First of all you can notice the figherbay doors are open and the ship is not depressurizing..some kind of bluish forcefield is keeping it "sealed".
Second, the whole fighterbay seems to have artificial gravity, yet huge bricks like Ursas land and take off without chrashing.