Battle of Earth | Halo

With the Fall of Reach there was nothing left stopping the Covenant from reaching the Solar System. The stage was set for the Battle for Earth.
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[@TemplinInstitute]

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[@MrAwsomenoob]

Do the battle of Arrakis from dune

[@Duke_of_Petchington]

The 8 marathon class Heavy Cruisers and 67 stalwart class light frigates were apart the 5th fleet under Fleet Admiral Harper.

[@tristan1392]

Very nicely done. Amazing as always. I wonder if you can do the same for the Siege of Terra.

[@pairtineach1917]

Can you please do the Red Line from the Metro games?

[@pinckney1897]

You left out all the police officers in New Mombasa. aside from that it was amazing

[@verdan6098]

UNSC forces in Sydney, Australia were forced into a two-pronged war against the Covenant and the local ecosystem. Survivors are unsure which were responsible for more casualties. Covenant ground forces were made to retreat after they disturbed an Emu nest.

[@trillionbones89]

The Emus hate humans and covenant alike, but since Reach, they hate Spartans more.

[@danielnewton7500]

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! oi! oi! oi!

[@Daimon-X]

That's Death World Straya for you Alien C*nts!

[@commanderknight9314]

Wouldn't the real danger to the covenant in Australia be the snakes and crocs. The UNSC nows the terrain and the local flora and fauna; the covenant don't.

[@redeemaugustine5945]

Remember Reach... Those emus are going to kill us after what we did to them on that planet.

[@a05odst62]

Chief: Sir, permission to leave the station? Hood: For what purpose master Chief? Chief: *To give the Covenant back their bomb*

[@seanirl1022]

Johnson: For a brick, he flew pretty good.

[@robertpeterson9832]

Sir yes sir

[@CylixTheGamer]

A05 ODST you missed “purpose”

[@ssidradumercer2038]

@@JeanLucCaptain adresse unknown

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

BADASS!!!

[@pudlordtynan919]

"But why Cleveland?" Said every man, woman and child who saw the Phantoms rumble towards them, in Cleveland.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

For reasons that I'm certain seem logical to James Ackerson.

[@wizar6712]

Why not go to like, DC or California while your in the biosphere?

[@jimmyseaver3647]

Before said Phantoms were stopped by the greatest of obstacles: Cleveland's endless roadwork.

[@Clicint]

At least they aren't Detroit.

[@Marylandbrony]

To take them out of their misery.

[@thewhitelotus7667]

sergeant johnson: "Dear Humanity, We regret being alien bastards, we regret comin' to Earth and we most definitely regret the the corps just blew up our ragdy-ass fleet!" marines: " *HO-RAH* "

[@ray-0249]

The prophet of regrets fleet was actually on a expeditionary mission in search of more sacred and holy artifacts that’s why the fleet was so small, and during his investigation his recovery teams had stumbled upon a forerunner luminary which his stewards then brought to his attention and upon accessing it, discovered a map of star systems and installations of great significance one of which was the ark, which was then shown to be only accessible by a portal located on a planet called “erde tyre” but what he didn’t know was that it was in fact earth humanities last stronghold which is why he so hastily went to the planet believing it to be an abandoned forerunner world.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

"Then we don't have much time. Marines... Truth doesn't know it yet, but he's about to get kicked right off his throne. You will take our city back. And drive our enemy into the grave they've been so happily digging. One final effort is all that remains." - Lord Admiral Terrence Hood.

[@bryanpseno4203]

Occultatum Quaestio I love it! That's spirit

[@dr.boring7022]

I felt bad for Lord Hood in Halo 3. The man was soo desperate 😂

[@LMG1792]

If that didn’t motivate the few remaining human fighters I don’t know what would have. When we see Hood speak to the fleet he shows bravery and courage and hides the weariness and helplessness we see when speaking to people like just keys.

[@vaahtobileet]

@@dr.boring7022 I felt bad for his horrific monster face model

[@BlackBanditXX]

"Brute ships, staggered line. Shipmaster, they outnumber us three to one!" "Good, then it is an even fight."

[@fluent4530]

*Then it’s a Even Fight* *All ships Fire at will* *Burn their Mongrel Hides*

[@captainjackpugh6050]

I don’t remember the “good”

[@MoltenUprisingMK]

They should really do a video concerning the Covenant Civil War, and describe how the Arbiter and Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum helped save humanity.

[@cinder-nu3pk]

Lol even fight

[@khartog01]

Foul xenos dare set foot on Holy Terra? Whoops, wrong universe.

[@TheStonewall117]

khartog01 even there, The Emperor still protects.

[@jacksonpettit9423]

Emperor of UNSC has blessed us with this Victory

[@The_Midnight_Bear]

*cough* War of the Beast *cough*

[@dolengea1523]

IMAGINE SPACE MARINES AGAINST THE COVENANT DAMNNNN

[@darthrevan704]

Dolen Gea that would be awesome

[@Quadratical]

I have a feeling this series will have a lot of 'The Battle of Earth' Battle of Earth - Halo Battle of Earth - Mass Effect 3 Battle of Earth - Star Trek DS9 Battle of Earth - Stargate those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head, probably tons more

[@RotneybotOfficial]

Also don't forget the Siege of Terra from Warhammer 40k.

[@RayleighJones]

Take Earth back!

[@brooklyn560]

Ds9 BoE was basically a suicide blitz and it been a while since I watched Stargate but wasn't there like 7 BoE ?

[@hellothere_1257]

"Battle of Earth - Stargate" Which one lol?

[@Quadratical]

@@hellothere_1257 Any of them. Some I think had other names though, despite being on Earth

[@kvnma]

halo space combat is one of the best things to be created in the sci-fi genre

[@edvard8449]

Yeah it's quite interesting, very thought out, not like those dumb Star Wars space battles.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

THANK YOU

[@greaterhalo0659]

True

[@hellothere_1257]

@@edvard8449 Is it though? I mean seriously, a soldier throwing a nuke out of an airlock to kill an enemy flagship? It just makes absolutely no sense for that kind of cheese to be a viable move in the same universe in which capital ship weapons have an effective range measured in hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Halo ship design and underlying lore are very cool and well-thought-out, but the actual events shown in the story are not the slightest bit more sensible than the stuff happening in Star Wars.

[@edvard8449]

@@hellothere_1257 that's not a regular soldier, that's Master Chief, he's a biologically and technologically augmented supersoldier. Also, before entering the spaceship, Longswords bombed the Battlecruiser heavily.

[@mgpmisterk2322]

Humans owe their survival to thel vadam as well, if the great schism never happened and the sangheli never found out the truth, if the prophets weren't dumb enough to betray the most skilled warriors they had humanity would have surely been extinct

[@Publicenemy213]

He went from single handedly causing the extinction of humanity to saving all of them kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYOcdHSpq7CXbrM

[@bryanpseno4203]

CTU Official channel BF4 I agree completely

[@zedkiller112]

[MGP] Mister K by these standards chief is not human In all seriousness though your probably right

[@casbah2075]

Well the Flood also help but destroying High Charity. Completely gutting the Covenant leadership.

[@cringekiller348]

Lol no It was the covenant due to which the flood was released Covenant only rectified one of their mistakes

[@hydrogenone6866]

Whenever I hear Alien Invasion I think of this speech: *“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”*

[@ericmorang3903]

Lame!

[@frenfranklin694]

@@ericmorang3903 shutcho bitchass up

[@tassel4713]

Shutup, be proud of your race you selfhating commie

[@SuperPershing-pl1xt]

@@ericmorang3903 Touch grass

[@nagger8216]

@@SuperPershing-pl1xt You're taking Independence Day of all things seriously lmao I think you're the one that needs to go outside lil bro.

[@christianhahn6885]

The Fallen shall forever be remembered, as the UNSC’s Finest

[@sbugmanthenoobinator]

MAXIMUM GRADE HERESY DETECTED! It is the EMPEROR S FINEST YOU RE TALKING ABOUT! REPENT!

[@sernwuub4014]

Blood for the blood god!!!

[@Manuelomar2001]

Get that warhammer neckbeard garbage out of here.

[@sbugmanthenoobinator]

@@Manuelomar2001 nope

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

@@sbugmanthenoobinator Those who went into the howling dark, and did not return.

[@Daimon-X]

SPARTANS NEVER DIE! They're just missing in action...

[@LeDeux11]

Wrong

[@robertagu5533]

Yeah.. permanently.. wonder why

[@carlbates9110]

They don’t go missing. They go hide in a cave on Reach.

[@benjamindavis4348]

Tell that to Noble Team

[@jacksonpettit9423]

They say hero's die twice.. once when you die for humanity and again when humanity forgets who saved them

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the Templin Institute. Keep up the good work guyz.

[@bryanpseno4203]

Sultan ik I love it

[@dyslexicsteak897]

0:13 YOU THOUGHT I WOULDN'T NOTICE!

[@liammurphy4204]

"I take it back, Navy got it's but kicked."

[@chuchulainn9275]

Hey Romeo? Remember how I told you to shut your mouth? Consider that a standing order.

[@LaLiLuLe2]

“Hey Romeo! Remember when I told you to shut your mouth?”

[@nuancedhistory]

Solid overview. Good job. A few points: The Musashi was a carrier of unknown class. The Basra was of an unknown class although interpreting it as a Supercarrier may not be out of line as it was described as one of the UNSC's finest ships in Operation: First Strike. The UNSC Fleet was much larger than the 5th Fleet alone, and included at least one more Marathon and 7 Frigates on Mars (Sol Defense Group 3A/5), multiple destroyers and one Marathon assigned to Battlegroup Omicron, multiple carriers including the UNSC Stalingrad (which as part of Battlegroup Omicron were diverted to Onyx) and UNSC Totem Lake, as well as a Valiant-Class Heavy Cruiser, the UNSC Chevaliers. There were also dozens of other small groups of frigates and corvettes. And we know there were far more, the Third Fleet is implied to have been rather large (large for a UNSC fleet being in the dozens), as the Totem Lake was only one ship in Battlegroup Rhino, and upon its destruction there was a request for the entire Third Fleet to be sent to destroy the Covenant ship. We also know the Second, Seventh, and Sixteenth Fleets were engaged in skirmishing around the planet, and likely included dozens of ships. It should be noted that the fleet seen at the beginning of Halo 3 was the remains of the fleet Truth sent to Earth. There were many more ships that were sent, than what we see in the game. It's likely the Fleet Truth sent numbered in the hundreds. For example we know there were multiple CPV-Class Destroyers around Earth at the time of the Battle of Onyx. The Athens, Malta, and Cairo weren't actually positioned above Athens, Malta, and Cairo on your map, which annoys my OCD. :P

[@pogwog5309]

they werent in real life

[@ZenFattyCat.4869]

nice comment, i wish u can have more like

[@cgi2002]

The fleet been so small is the result of the actions of Blue team and Admiral Whitcome at the Unyielding Hierophant, were roughly 500 other ships were destroyed by a detonation of the stations reactors (he also blew up a huge fleet kindof by accident elsewere with a NOVA bomb). This was the fleet that Regret was originally supposed to be bringing with him to Earth, what he arrives with at the start of Halo 2 is basically his personal escort as one of the high prophets, not an actual battlefleet. He also didn't know Earth was fortifiied human world (its unclear if he knew it was a human world at all), so him walking into the defences was him just been idiotic and a religious nut job, he was the only 1 of the 3 high prophets who was actually a fanatic to the cause of the great journey, the other 2 were in it for the power alone.

[@aiosquadron]

Actually, the Athens, Cairo and Malta wasn't positioned there in "real" life either.

[@e3nethan910]

Truth did indeed sent a giant final assault fleet to Earth. That was the one that he brought with the Forerunner dreadnought at the end of Halo 2. But earlier, in the days leading up to his arrival to Earth, multiple waves of large Covenant fleets came to Earth(after Truth's first support armada came after Regret's escape). I'd say that up to several thousand ships could have taken part in the Battle for Earth, all of which were presumably lost.

[@jannegrey593]

I don't know if I say this right: Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans. I don't exactly know what it is, but have a good holiday anyway.

[@andrewlynch4126]

Jan Negrey as an American I appreciate your comment and hope you have a wonderful day yourself

[@osedebame3522]

Thanks mate

[@aluminumcurtain]

Thanks dude. Hope your having a good day too.

[@commanderknight9314]

Thanks, that is very nice.

[@Mystickrage]

its a day we say thank you to god and to everything else in our lives for well this land we have and for the food we make

[@rodneypayne4827]

Invade our home,we make you pay dearly for your arrogance! UNSC forever!

[@jacksonpettit9423]

Death to the Covenat!!!

[@stratigangames508]

@Arrowhead Water yeah but it also shattered the covenant beyond repair. I'd say we got the better end of the deal

[@joshuastarkloff9602]

Dude Humanity in the Halo verse was so fucking close to extinction. We only survived due to dumb luck.

[@UGNAvalon]

Not “dumb” luck. It’s Chief’s defining quality! ;D

[@wilsthelimit]

Does anyone else wonder why the UNSC made Australia their capital?

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

Wils The Limit neutrality?

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

And far from other nations?

[@jacksonpettit9423]

It was a stategic location of geographic importance to the United Nations who had every country as a member. The impact of Australian diplomacy which strengthened the UN to make a space program and then becoming the UNSC

[@Marylandbrony]

I thought having Australia as Earth's captial was my orginal idea. Also I wonder if any of the convent encountered Emus.

[@leaveme3559]

I think Switzerland might have been a better choice or some where in central Asia as this places r mostly neutral in global politics

[@RazordraacGaming]

4:05 This one. The reason there was such a small fleet was because all the Covenant really knew for sure was that there was a Forerunner artifact on Earth (the keyship) - they knew it was a human world but didn't anticipate it being the homeworld, just a colony. It didn't make sense tactically for them to send a massive fleet to what they probably would have expected to be a small colony, as well as their primary objective not being that of combat, just infiltration and retrieval.

[@ElysiumEverlasting777]

Wasn't the Keyship it was the gate to the ark that was under new Mombasa. The keyship was from the covenant capital: high charity.

[@LordyT34]

I think people forget how bad the situation was for the UNSC for most of the series. Halo 5 has been the only game so far where the UNSC isn't on its back foot

[@UGNAvalon]

What about H4’s Spartan Ops, which opened with the Infinity _Literally Ramming a Covvie Cruiser In Two_ ?

[@The_cestelin_Holland]

​@@UGNAvalon even then the didact was setting the unsc back

[@mattwells5347]

Video ideas: Project Orion and Project Mjolnier (Halo) Vault-Tec (Fallout) Pre-War America(?) (Fallout) Third Reich (Wolfenstein universe)

[@wizar6712]

Matt Wells Mann co (team fortress 2)

[@bryanpseno4203]

Matt Wells please do!

[@JACCO20082012]

Playing as the Chief, it is so easy to forget how outmatched the UNSC really was. The Covenant nailed Reach and Earth within weeks of each other with relatively little effort compared to what the UNSC was putting into defense. Some of the missions in Halo Reach (New Alexandria, specifically) demonstrated that quite clearly. Really, by Halo 3, the war was over. It was a case of stopping the Covenant from activating the rings. Not preserving the UNSC or saving colonies and I doubt they could have even done that had the Elites not helped out because they were the ones that took out the rest of Truth's fleet AND stopped the Flood AND provided the necessary support to reach the control room. It was blind luck that Covenant fractured when it did, which is the only thing that spared humanity from extinction. Now we have bullshit like the Infinity which can literally ram through Covenant capital ships like they are nothing, and that only 4 in-universe years after the UNSC had to basically start from scratch to rebuild its military power and industrial infrastructure. I miss Bungie-era Halo.

[@frost9041]

To be fair, having easy access to Forerunner sites probably made everything easier to accomplish. Also, fairly sure that the Covenant ran into Earth without knowing it is the homeworld and capital of Humanity as opposed to the site of a Forerunner artefact (the gate to the Ark). My knowledge of the lore though may be mistaken.

[@comradecommissar1945]

The infinity represents that the covenant are no longer top dog, humanity is. That wasn't a capital ship either that was one of their smaller ships more equivalent to a human Marathon or Paris class.

[@Halo4Lyf]

See, I disagree, only because I never got the impression that the UNSC was engaging in total war.

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

"Playing as the Chief, it is so easy to forget how outmatched the UNSC really was." Outmatched, yes, but the UNSC held on for nearly 30 years before they were finally ground down far enough to break.

[@FrozenPhoenix15]

Exactly. The best Halo stories are born out of Humanity’s desperation during the war. The Keyes Loop, Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, Battle of Reach, capturing a Covenant flagship with a Pelican, a Longsword, and a squad of Marines, The Second Battle of Reach, the Raid on Unyielding Hierophant, Operations Prometheus and Torpedo, the entire Spartan-III program, capturing a Destroyer with a squad of Spartans while destroying its companion simultaneously, the battles for Onyx. The UNSC was outnumbered and outgunned every step of the way, so they had to actually _think_ their way out of tough situations. Now it’s just: “Throw some Forerunner tech at it. Oh, didn’t work? *Throw **_more_** Forerunner tech at it!”* Where’s the tension?

[@nerowulfee9210]

I was there. I was there when Horus killed the Emperor.

[@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907]

What is this blasphemy!? The Emperor yet lives in his chamber of healing!

[@Damo2690]

@@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 Wrong Emperor you're thinking of

[@marleegould542]

"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"

[@xXCrimson_BoltXx]

What other way to spend Thanksgiving then watching another beautiful video about Halo.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

It's about conquering so it's a good fit. Should be called thankstaking XD

[@MoltenUprisingMK]

When Regret's forces arrived on Earth, they were guaranteeing the downfall of the Covenant.

[@wiibrockster]

I guess you could say he "regretted" that decision.

[@MasouShizuka]

"Humanity's survival is owed to him" Del Rio: "ARREST THIS MAN"

[@kb9oak749]

I could listen to Larisa read a set of encyclopedias with rapt attention.

[@rolfgrell4783]

Chief: *Hey, Covenant! I think you forgot something!* Covenant: No we didn't. Chief: Here, have your Bomb back!

[@pedrodasilva1224]

Are you doing Kaiserreich

[@datfisheboi6519]

God I hope so

[@wizar6712]

Mayhaps they will

[@gognamm2400]

Sorry but did you just said KAISERREICH

[@christopherscott1336]

EVERY MAN A KING

[@imperialfalcon1919]

DIRECT RULE FROM LONDON

[@Cailus3542]

A superb video. Absolutely bloody superb. The Battle of Earth was, in many respects, the last stand of humanity. The Battle of Reach was the Covenant’s final decisive hammer blow, shattering the UNSC’s military capacity, leaving Earth as a heavily fortified but only moderately defended world. The UNSC Home Fleet was only a fraction as strong as the fleet at Reach had been, while the UNSC’s only proven assets capable of matching the Covenant evenly were also lost at Reach, most notably almost the entire Spartan corps and the NOVA superweapon project. There was no hope whatsoever for humanity when the Covenant arrived at Earth. It would just be a futile, desperate last stand against overwhelming odds. Of course, as the Templin Institute mentions in this video, other events evened the strategic situation. The Covenant sustained immense losses during the Battle of Reach, from hundreds upon hundreds of warships to a valuable supercarrier to millions of ground troops. Another fleet of dozens of ships were lost during the Halo Campaign. and then another five hundred warships were lost during Operation FIRST STRIKE, including the irreplacable mobile station known as Unyielding Heirophant. Between the detonation of the NOVA superweapon and the losses at Onyx, another hundred Covenant warships were lost, including a major economic and industrial world. Dozens more warships were lost in the attack against Earth, while the beginning of the civil war at High Charity over Delta Halo resulted in the loss of hundreds and hundreds of warships, millions of citizens and High Charity itself, the seat of Covenant political and religious power. The end result left the Covenant’s once mighty war machine a broken shell of its former glory. As a result, despite the loss or retreat of most of the surviving UNSC Home Fleet, the UNSC was able to hold onto most of Earth. Most the Orbital Defence Platforms survived to keep most of Earth’s orbit secure, limiting Covenant warships a corridor above Africa, and so when the end of the war finally came, humanity was able to reclaim its homeworld.

[@Publicenemy213]

> The Covenant sustained immense losses during the Battle of Reach, from hundreds upon hundreds of warships to a valuable supercarrier to millions of ground troops. Another fleet of dozens of ships were lost during the Halo Campaign. and then another five hundred warships were lost during Operation FIRST STRIKE, including the irreplacable mobile station known as Unyielding Heirophant. Between the detonation of the NOVA superweapon and the losses at Onyx, another hundred Covenant warships were lost, including a major economic and industrial world. Dozens more warships were lost in the attack against Earth, while the beginning of the civil war at High Charity over Delta Halo resulted in the loss of hundreds and hundreds of warships, millions of citizens and High Charity itself, the seat of Covenant political and religious power. The covenant lost only a bit over 100 ships at reach, most of them from the initial assault but over time more and more ships arrived that pretty much gave Reach no hope. Only 6 ships were lost in Halo 1, and at most 13 in Halo 2 (atleast 2 ships on regrets fleet survived, possible more). The First Strike fleet of 500 ships was Truths secret fleet that noone else in the covenant knew about, and he considered its loss a small setback. All of the losses after Halo 2 were massive to them since the civil war is what caused the majority of their losses, but the covenant empire as a whole had practically no shortage of ships to toss against the UNSC

[@AllknowingUnknown]

I believe the covenant lost 2 CSO Super carriers near the end of the war, one at Reach and another during First Strike and IIRC it was theorized that the covenant only had up to 5 of the behemoth carriers. That would’ve dealt a minor blow to their morale No ?...

[@iwasmuted4]

@@AllknowingUnknown Spoilers ahead The new Halo novel with Chief and the ODSTs takes place at the beginning of the war. Soon after the events at Harvest. Blue team and other spartan teams took command of an elite ODST unit from the Navy's Prowler core. They managed to set off a series of portable nukes in some kind of Covenant shipyard or supply station. This station happened to have a CSO class supercarrier under construction. The station and the carrier were destroyed. That makes at least two CSOs destroyed that I know of. Reach and the station. Not to mention the massive force of 500 ships and station lost at Reach.

[@iwasmuted4]

@@Publicenemy213 I think he Covenant lost much more in the battle over High Charity and the flood. That civil war was still ongoing by the time the events of Halo 5 took place.

[@TheLordexilius]

​@@Publicenemy213 The Covenant lost over 260 ships at Reach halo.wikia.com/wiki/Fall_of_Reach. While Truth thought the 500 ships lost at the Unyielding Hierophant "a minor setback", he had delusions of grandeur and was somewhat disconnected from reality. If all those ships lost, including those at Sigma Octanus and battle of Psi Serpentis, had no significance to the Covenant, why would they escort a Prophet - A prophet - by 2552 to a world that was known to have at least some Human settlement, with just 15 ships? Why not send 1000 ships with a Prophet? The Covenant was understrength too at the end, partly due to the rising tensions between elites and brutes, but certainly also due to losses in the war. Or why just 750 ships in total to the Battle of Reach, the greatest battle of the war. The Covenant were going to full scale war with Humanity at Reach, and they brought 750 ships. That was what they were able to commit. IMO its pretty clear the Covenant did not command as many ships as some think (not to begin with either). A couple of thousands, but hardly more than that.

[@bully056]

You know for all the mention of life lost, no one seems to bring up the civilians and militias that were likely fighting tooth and nail right along side the military, seems kind of sad yeah know?

[@jacksonpettit9423]

Its sad because we couldn't of stopped our impeccable doom only delay it and hope someone survived in secret underground bunkers

[@bully056]

@@jacksonpettit9423 If it were me, I would rather Fight and Die on my feet then in a Bunker underground.

[@jacksonpettit9423]

@@bully056 most people who fought would join you and I would of drove a tanker truck into them and blow them up so I took down as many of them bastards with me as I can just to give my family and friends some extra time to find safety.

[@bully056]

@@jacksonpettit9423 Right with you dude, If it means My family could get to a Bunker or an Evac site I would call a MAC round or a Shiva right on top of me just to kill as many of them as I could.

[@agentc7020]

Dying killing as many of your enemies is fine but killing lots of enemies and trying to survive is better

[@justincastellanos7835]

imagine the covenant in southside Detroit

[@nanyafahkinbiznes1352]

Humanity owes its survival to Master Chief Rest of the Noble team: ;_;

[@UGNAvalon]

The Archives live action trailers make it clear that behind every Master Chief is an army of regular humans giving him the best chance possible at survival. :,)

[@alterelch4707]

Feet first into HELL!!!

[@Halcyon_games]

Hoorah trooper!

[@holyroller56]

I love your videos on all things Halo! You should explore the UEG/UNSC human colonies size, locations and the like!

[@tronmaster5704]

I'm glad that High Command made the cut. Now, all that's left is to make a video on the Fall of Beacon from RWBY. Or Operation Hollow Storm from Gears of War 2.

[@helpmereach690subscribers3]

*Covenant land in detroit* Elite: ...have we already been through here? Grunt: I don’t think so...maybe the brutes? Brute: *landing nearby* man you guys did a number on this place. Elite: wasn’t us. Brute: so wait your telling me the humans actually let this city decay into such a state of disrepair and poverty...ON THERE OWN!? Elite: I guess so.

[@operatorjuno5348]

YES! Also been a sucker for Halo, and the Battle of Earth has been a topic I've always been interested in

[@Invai62]

seeing that footage in the beginning gave me enormous chills

[@Bhoddisatva]

This is how religions get started.

[@tombblades]

I still think it's dumb how the forunners are referred to as forunners by themselves, they need an actual species name.

[@markmulder9845]

There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate man, and the UNSC, is a group of very desperate men. The UNSC's defense of Earth, according to lore, was even more stubborn and fierce than the defense of Reach. They had a few hundred ships, but only one battleship, 5 carriers (no super carriers), several dozen cruisers, and a multitude of frigates and destroyers totaling to about 200 to 300 ships in orbit during the initial invasion. Several battle groups were recalled during the attack, bringing the total up to a little less than 400 (maximum 388) but the most that ever fought at the same time was under 300. by the time the battle finished, less than 200 vessels remained, and most of them severely damaged. Also, much of the polar and eastern Eurasian MAC battle clusters remained intact. The rest were eventually wiped out, especially the african clusters. There were remnants of clusters over the North and south american continents, but not alot. The covenant took massive and highly disproportionate casualties on Earth.

[@TheJarric]

for this seven day siege from unreal , whale probe from trek , siege of imperial palace 40k , fall of 13 colonies original galactiga , fall of valley forge marvel , batle of antartica and siege of atlantis from stargate

[@nick-314]

Have you guys ever thought about releasing dossiers on the video topics you guys do? It'd be a cool extra for patreon or something, maybe just a downloadable document.

[@BigHeadClan]

So. Doseir of master Chief?

[@yorisingrango9837]

"for a brick, he flew pretty good"- Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson (SN: 48789-20114-AJ)

[@corporalsilver6981]

Master Chief returning to earth in Halo 3 was basically Steiner's counter attack on Berlin lmao.

[@Void_Wars]

Except Steiner’s attack never came since he was under supplied and he surrendered to the allies. Also, the Germans lost 😆

[@ChefMarkyMarkz]

I love how the fate of the earth kicks off on my birth date centurys from now.

[@Bernoris]

No it's actually 10 cruisers in that Corp, in near the end of the second cutscene in halo 2, look on the right and you will see 2 cruisers near Cario station

[@bluenight104]

I never agreed with that small amount of ships for the home fleet. We know carriers were part of the home fleet because they would later depart with Battlegroup Stalingrad to Onyx. So I believe that number was just a detachment or wing of the much larger fleet. After all even though the UNSC was severely under strengthened they still managed to wipe out most of the High charity defense fleet that departed with truth (a fleet that was made up of high hundreds to low thousands of ships)

[@Publicenemy213]

> After all even though the UNSC was severely under strengthened they still managed to wipe out most of the High charity defense fleet that departed with truth (a fleet that was made up of high hundreds to low thousands of ships) The high charity defense fleet was mostly destroyed or scattered by this time. When the schism happened, the fleet started destroying itself with brute and elite captained ship going into all out war. A month after this fighting, Truth arrived at earth with only a portion of the remaining brute fleet, with the rest still fighting at high charity for another month until they eventually scattered. Earth never saw that many covenant ships, the majority of them were fighting in the civil war

[@bluenight104]

MooMoink We don’t know how many destroyed themselves in the civil war and how many followed Truth to Earth. What we do know is that Truth ordered those ships loyal to him to follow, at which point most of the fighting around Delta Halo stopped. We also know most of the elites created a quarantine zone around Delta and tried to stop the high-charity infection, both of which ultimately failed. They then disengaged and regrouped after that operation. We also know that from October 21st (end of Halo 3: ODST) to November 8th (Truth arrives in Sol) constant covenant reinforcements came to Earth and continued to contest UNSC space assets while excavating the New Mombasa artifact. Finally we know that because of the destruction Battlegroup omicron (wrongly labeled battlegroup Stalingrad) the UNSC had at least 1 (The UNSC Stalingrad) carrier in system and probably more.

[@agentc7020]

Blue Night still not enough to defeat truth’s fleet apparently xd

[@DarkNova50]

"Stop Destruction of Human Race: In Progress." Great video. Looking forward to more from the new High Command series.

[@daxtr5]

I don't think I've ever NOT cried whenever I watch these vids. There's just something so moving about the voice-over and music combo that's so... epic.

[@zama422]

I would love to see the reaction of the convenient if they showed up and found Battlefleet Solar instead

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

*When You Realize The Templin Institute Also Makes Halo*

[@yanivgalmor1747]

They always did

[@citogonzalez8177]

8:30 Master chief > army of million of space bugs

[@that__guy1127]

What happened to my men we're.......we're are my men the last time we saw them was in Halo 3 my men didn't even get credit for shit.

[@BlackPantherFTW]

The covenant was surprised that earth was even occupied by humans, much less our homeworld. Regrets fleet had been somewhat crippled by the explosion of the unyielding hydrophant and subsequent loss of over 500 ships. The 12 that survived headed to earth as planned. That's why regrets fleet was so small and the prophet felt no need to reinforce before the journey to earth

[@Stinger913]

The institute should cover CSAT from Arma 3. Has a very interesting power dynamic as it's supplanted the West in terms of soft power due to some shady means

[@deep.space.12]

0:14 *ESTABLISHING BATTLEFIELD CONTROL STANDBY*

[@mauricocruz7405]

5:35 master chief was like “no u”

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

"Some say the good lord works in mysterious ways, but not today! This right here is 66 tons of H.E. spittin' DEE-VINE intervention, if god is love then you can call me cupid!"

[@badhoplite7299]

you gotta do either Armageddon or Cadia for this series. Cadia Stands!

[@bryanpseno4203]

BadHoplite I'd like to see that

[@brandonchapman4532]

Were it so easy?

[@corporalsilver6981]

I had no idea that Sydney was the capital of Earth...I love the fact that my city is the capital.

[@Chips1914]

I would love to see a video about the ODSTs.

[@victorsandoval4792]

The governor probably went to skidrow and said, “yeah this place is already conquered “.

[@codywright2840]

300 platforms. 300. I get that the covenant are slippery little bastards in space battles but still, with 300 platforms, each one capable of one shotting any of those covenant ships, that space battle should have been over in a few minutes.

[@gabrielgzz7585]

In reality the UNSC responded against the covenant attack in one of the most mediocre way possible we have ever seen in Halo. It shows how the writers didn’t give 2 shits about how the battle actually was played out

[@Void_Wars]

I’ve never gotten that in these games. It seems like one single plasma turret seem to threaten the entire UNSC and you have to stop it or some thing 🤷‍♂️

[@skau-yeong9191]

"Establishing battlefield control... Stand by." Reminds me of Command & Conquer!

[@hefat5955]

I miss her voice

[@silvialanfredi7388]

What happened?

[@cyantile5490]

Yes! High Command got in! Cant wait to see future episodes! Exceptional work Templin Institute! Maybe perhaps you could do a High Command on the XOF raid on the base of Big Boss and Militaires Sans Frontieres from Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes? Or any episode related to Metal Gear? Maybe about the factions or such? Pleeeeaaase?

[@unknownuser4692]

Man this was so cool if my world domination plan plays out I'm making Templin the national properganda I mean war correspondence

[@kertaspaper94]

Do every event that are connected in any way to the Battle and subsequent Fall of Reach

[@goodman4966]

happy thanksgiving

[@sookendestroy1]

Oof that moment when 5th fleet is confused for the entirety of Home Fleet yet again. :(

[@Razgriz_01]

I hope you guys do a siege of Terra video once the Solar War part of Horus Heresy is released.

[@Alex-vo2ce]

so you have a weapon that can shoot at 1.3% speed of light (3.900 km/s) and are you telling me, that they have a range of what 5.000/10.000km? really? and the other 297 stations? i´m a halo fan but this battle and the way they lose is bullshit

[@zacharyburden3059]

Do the NFFA or the New Founding Fathers Association from the Purge movies! I just saw the new movie so I want to learn more about this interesting faction

[@The105ODST]

I am thankful for the video today.

[@totoburke9583]

I really though that the defense platforms would have at least Simone basic point defense systems.

[@melaertheautoclast8033]

I'd love to see the Siege of Terra or some other great battle from the Warhammer 40k, like the Battle of Macragge. Love your works!

[@gavinsmiley9377]

Cool new show. Might I suggest any of Grand Admiral Thrawn’s endeavors for a future episode.

[@Maanel_]

The battle between helghast and vekta

[@johnusas2870]

Definitely a good video, loved the somber music playing at the beginning to set the tone of the video. Even though I am well read up on the halo lore I still love watching your videos as they give a professional view to the battles and factions.

[@JoshLin17]

The moment they said Musashi had been destroyed, I immediately flashed back to the Yamato class Musashi of World War Two and inwardly groaned

[@GunlessSnake]

DAMMIT, STILL NO *BESTIARY* ADDITION! Next time...... NEXT TIME! Guess more sci-fi/fantasy faction history coverage. I gotta admit, I'm biased towards my choice because I prefer the variety that covering individual lifeforms and/or species would bring compared to covering so many different human/humanoid-led factions.

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

Great video. R.I.P. Halo 2001 - 2010 Gone but never forgotten.

[@arthas1173]

Please review the UED faction of Starcraft, even if they only appeared in the first game.

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Serve the Directorate, Serve Humanity!

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

They have done starcraft before actually i think

[@arthas1173]

Yes it was the Dominion faction from Stacraft I & II. The UED successfully brought down the Dominion Empire to its knees. Made the new overmind their attack dog. Who know how they would had defeated the Protoss. That's another thing, in the Terran Brood war campaign, there are only 8 mission. They should had made 3-4 more as Terran VS Protoss forces only. We never got that.

[@MikMoen]

Is that number for the Home Fleet sourced from Canon somewhere? I understand after fighting a losing war for so long with so many ships lost it wouldn't be too big, but still I figured a couple hundred at least.

[@AllknowingUnknown]

Mik Moen IIRC After Reach fell Lord Hood against the recommendation of Fleet Com ordered the return of ALL remaining battle groups from every remaining colony to fall back to Earth. This meant that for a approximately 1 month hundreds of ships fell back to Earth, strengthening her already formidable defences. During the battle above earth which took place over 3 months, the U.N.S.C. would receive a constant stream of reinforcements from all over the inner colonies and the battle for the Sol System would take place throughout all of her major colonies not limited to Earth and Mars. As battlegroups of various sizes dropped out of slipspace they would immediately be called into action and deployed at any one of the planets in the system until only a few ships remained.

[@sargesacker2599]

Mik Moen In the first cutscene of Cairo Station in Halo 2 you can see the exact numbers of 8 cruisers and 67 frigates on a screen when Lord Hood tells Admiral Harper to pull back.

[@anjetto1]

Stationary orbital defense platforms for orbital defense are a deeeeeeeply stupid idea that I've grown to hate.

[@ryantabor9582]

Could you guys please do the faro swarm/plague from horizon zero dawn? If not, woupd it be possible to do the war of operation enduring victory from horizon zero dawn? Thank you for making quality videos like these! Keep up the great work!

[@greensleeves5710]

BROTHERS HOLY TERRA HAS BE- wait wrong universe

[@SQW0]

3:09 Geosynchronous orbits are a LOT further away than most people think. What was shown is at most exosphere at 400km (the orbit of ISS). Geosynchronous orbit is at 42,000km (a HUNDRED times that). You'll barely see Earth if you plot part of the geosynch orbit on the screen so 300 platforms covering a globe with radius of 42,000km is...well, lets say you can sneak a moon or two through the gaps. Scifi writers need lessons in scale before writing space battles or stick with terrestrial stuff.

[@Laserwad]

The Covenant forces really faced spirited resistance. Many civilians together with the UNSC army personnel literally fought to the last man. On the other hand, morale and fighting qualities of the Covenant army were generally very low, and many of them would simply surrender to UNSC forces. This is especially true of the Grunt contingent. The battles between the Covenant and UNSC on Earth were largely attrition-style tug of war. It was the special operations led by Master Chief and Arbiter that turned the tide. They gave the army precious time to re-organize and counterattack.