Halo: UNSC Halberd Class Destroyer feat. EckhartsLadder - Spacedock

[@Spacedock]

Big thanks to EckhartsLadder for stepping in today and mitigating my limited Halo knowledge. :) Head over to his channel for my breakdown of the USAF Prometheus: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWrSn4GZaalsmrs

[@Chino56751]

Can we have more Halo warships ? And/Or, Starcraft ?

[@AzureanSky]

Can you talk about some of the Veritech Fighters in Macross like the VF-171 Nightmare, the YF-19/VF-19 Excalibur or the YF-21/VF-22 Sturmvoggel?

[@tristan1392]

Here's a suggestion for a new video. Do a video on the Imperial Lunar Class Cruiser.

[@colinjones3871]

I like to know about this ship Charon-Class Light Frigate

[@masterchief7301]

Spacedock Just a heads up, the Strident is bigger than the Helberd, you meant the Stalwart-class frigate

[@danielhaire6677]

The dual MACs were actually a big advantage against a single Covenant ship. According to "Fall of Reach", a well aimed single MAC could bring down a Covenant ship's shields. A double tap like the Halberd could actually cause enough damage to allow the Archer missiles and Shivas to get through to target.

[@xshullaw]

As Commander Keyes proved during his (in)famous Keyes Loop maneuver.

[@midgetydeath]

Or the second could be one of those shredder rounds or hell maybe a nuclear one. Maybe nail the shields just in time for archers to arrive and target the defense lasers and then slam a hyperion nuke or something in their face, right into the hole made by the second MAC.

[@MistahFox]

@@midgetydeath Yeah that's exactly the tactics they used in the war

[@midgetydeath]

Come to think of it, the hot hole from the MAC's impact would probably provide a wonderful tool to guide missiles right into the damaged spot.

[@dragonstormx]

Regardless of lore, I am always going to think of Red vs Blue when I see this ship.

[@nuclearphoenix177]

It was in rvb daym

[@Cardinal8427]

Considering this thing was never seen in the halo games I can't blame you for thinking of the "Staff of Charon" when you see it.

[@ItsJustVirgil]

Florian Wagner yeah the short season 10 duel with the MOI shows just how fucking powerful it is. It didn’t even fire it’s MAC, just point defense batteries and missiles. Also, it feels like it could easily spawn stealth ship derivatives because of that prow.

[@battlemaster1719]

Kind of a shame. I expected to see some footage from RvB, which would have made the video more awesome if they did.

[@skooptroop3703]

What episode of rvb was it?

[@AlexGellel]

One of my favourite UNSC designs, just a shame it got more screen time in an Episode of Red vs Blue than it has in any of the Halo games :(

[@mattstorm360]

Son of a bitc-

[@Worldwidegam3r]

That scene was cool as hell though.

[@adamalexander1496]

You and me both

[@TeutonicKnight92]

“Firing main cannon”

[@vaniellys]

More than a single episode actually. The Staff of Charon appears in season 9, then 13.

[@ninjabot567]

Ships like these are why Halo is my favorite sci-fi universe in terms of space battles. In the expanded lore books and the game Halo: Fleet Battles, you can see how a lot of thought has been put in to make these ships all part of a functioning navy. It's a perfect mix of futuristic optimism with few "magical" technologies, the only one being artificial gravity. Everything else seems fairly realistic, like ships actually having orbits, and battles taking place hundreds of thousands of miles apart.

[@anzaca1]

Yeah, but SW allows you to have proper dogfights in space. And BFII has done a great job of making the space battles very good fun.

[@carloblanco2165]

That was until Halo 4 came out though, this is my honest opinion. The UNSC seems to too strong for its position.

[@PackedWolf]

If you read the book Glasslands, which bridges the gap between Halo 3 and Halo 4, you'll see why the UNSC is so powerful. First, the Infinity was nearly completed by the time the Great War ended. Second, the UNSC acquired Huragok/Engineers, which held all the combined technical knowledge of the Covenant. They also had countless Covenant and Forerunner wrecks to examine and reverse-engineer. Third, when the Covenant broke apart, the Prophets fled, taking all the Huragok with them and killing those they could not take. So the Elites and Brutes, for hundreds of years dependent upon the Huragok to build and maintain their space fleets, can't expand their navies until they learn from the ground up how to be engineers.

[@davidvanderven]

Carlo Blanco Halo 4 removed much of the plausibility of the Halo Universe in regards to humanity and replaced it with forerunner space magic.

[@carloblanco2165]

David Vander Ven, haha its human nature to always figure out how to make us feel more special, thats why we're the only ones to actually be able to make most of the tech turn on in the storywise

[@cadkls]

Any ship with flat angular hulls is instantly my favourite, it's why I love the destroyer and infinity so much.

[@1234kalmar]

This ship looks absolutely awesome! It has an elegance to it, but lacks none of the military feel to it.

[@egoalter1276]

its a spearhead in space. We like spearheads in space. Just look at the ISD.

[@the_kraken6549]

Gotta say I think it’s odd how many ships have a “large armaments for their size”

[@themc.kennyshow6585]

Use of every available space I guess.

[@tgagaming3104]

This is because UNSC ships are utilitarian in nature. They make use of every advantage they can.

[@the_kraken6549]

@@tgagaming3104 Well sure I guess, but unless we’re comparing the armament of warships to civilian ships, then not every warship can have a larger than average amount of guns. If almost every ship is above average, then doesn’t that become the new average?

[@Friedrich687]

They're saying the caliber and size of the weapon is larger than similar ships of it's class

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

Slightly sad the Heart of Midlothian didn't get a mention, but I can't deny that the Iroquois isn't the most notable ship of her class. I think this is probably my favourite UNSC ship design, save perhaps the Valiant class.

[@markscrivener7696]

I like the Marathons the most mainly the Leviathan

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

They're quintessential, yeah. Them and the Paris-class Frigate.

[@LD-Orbs]

No verbal mention, but it's the name of the ship used for the visuals from 0:42 to 1:22. "Not forgotten."

[@Teevock]

I am tickled pink by all the relatively new Sci-Fi content channels. Spacedock, Eckhart's Ladder, Stupendous Wave, Star Wars Explained, Templin Institute, etc, are all fantastic and I'm loving the "Special Guest" cooperation between these guys. In this era of KZbin shitting all over Content Creators and the whole demonetization issues going on, it's nice to see friendly cooperation and the sharing of views/likes/subscriptions. The dedication and attention to detail you guys and gals show to Science Fiction and Fantasy is greatly appreciated by the fan base. Signed - A 32yr old UberNerd.

[@superchacho777]

Hell yeah two of my favorite channels!

[@GrayWolfAtlas]

notified SOTP on this awesome video, thank you once again space dock.

[@kishwaukeehort]

Excellent overview and review of the Halberd destroyer and tie to the Key's Loop maneuver. Thank you for posting!

[@hitechnic7805]

Aw yes, finally using Sins of the Prophets! It's such a good mod, and so fun to play; the asymmetric playstyles of the two factions make it highly unique and replayable!

[@Servellion]

Once more with feeling: Please do the CCS Battlecruiser. It desperately needs some love, despite being the most seen covenant vessel.

[@Mrpomarcus]

it feels so surreal that hearing this voice but without the dog outro

[@SILENTALONS]

I'm glad for this video for two things: The Halberd-class Destroyer A shout out to Sins of the Prophets mod

[@mrhyde4732]

MATT CHONG hey what game is this from, I have heard of the mod before but I haven't heard of the base game

[@SILENTALONS]

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

[@mrhyde4732]

MATT CHONG ah, ok thanks :)

[@loganfletcher1106]

One of the most elegant (and my personal favorite) ship designs out there.

[@xshullaw]

A stunningly beautiful ship, especially for the UNSC's usual style. Also: 2:01 *laughs in Iroquois*

[@kirk7528]

Two of my favorite lore channels collaborating, instant like

[@samsimon2003]

You know you fucked up when the see the lights of the "staff of charon" turn on

[@Agamembar]

One of my favorite ships , have quite a few for my Halo Fleet battles UNSC fleet as they worked really well with Valiants and Epoch ships

[@mrhyde4732]

How does the halo fleet battles game work? I've heard of it but I'm not sure if I should get it or not.

[@anulovlos]

Thanks for posting! The Halberd is the best ship in the UNSC's lineup, both in warfighting capability and looks, and fills out any serious fleet when you need something sturdier than a Paris covering the flanks. EckhartsLadder is as always great as well. I watch both of your videos as soon as y'all post them.

[@Hiperruimteindustriee]

What a beauty! And its a beast too!

[@Xanmanbro]

May not be too wild about EckhartsLadder and his content? But after reading Halo The Fall Of Reach? This is a ship I really wanted a Spacedock on. Thank you,

[@thanos3784]

*cough* circlejerk *cough* 😛

[@McSquizzy962]

Wait... Wait, wait, wait... The heart of Midlothian? *SCOTLAND THE BRAVE INTENSIFIES*

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

Ear oh kwah? Thats how the Canadians pronounce it because of their French influences.. More native tribes would pronounce it as Ear Ah Coy.. Iroquois

[@AzureanSky]

AlmostSober so its just like the letter Z where people either pronounce it as Zee or Zed?

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

The Four Horsemen pardon his Fenech

[@Voltaic_Fire]

A big honking space gun with engines, just the way I like them.

[@pyrogothica3906]

I can never unhear that pronunciation of iroquois.

[@davidb8656]

The Halberd and the Spirt of Fire are two of my favorite Halo ship designs

[@ToxicTeraaa]

Mfh, that Intro soundtrack is giving me the chills, good old Battlezone. Also, good video.

[@aDatsun240z]

I frigging love the Halberd

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

These ships were basically the "help" in the war and they were definitely needed.

[@greatwhitnorth]

I absolutely love Halo spacedock episodes :D

[@xyro3633]

Yes! Halberd! My favorite!

[@spearhead7777]

As a person who leans much more toward the more fantastical ship designs I really love the Halberd's design.

[@Rimasta1]

You make #1 videos in all of Kazakhstan! Very nice. 👍

[@joelaton1062]

Nice video. I love that sins mod :)

[@oddityurie3435]

I remember a recount where I was just imagining of ships for my navy and most of them were UNSC ships or UNSC inspired ships and st the time I did not knew their names but I used a UNSC destroyer and named it's class the Hell Brad destroyer. But then a year later I finally discovered the actual name of that ship and it was called the Halberd and I was thinking to myself "wth this is a weird coincidence" and now I know the name of th e UNSC destroyer

[@lc7327]

Ayy heart of Midlothian- love the reference bungie put in there

[@luckysix1015]

Sees the word Halberd, Meta knight’s revenge plays in head.

[@moppypuppy781]

I had no idea that Halberd Class Destroyers were so small.

[@For_The_Horde]

26 "oversized" Archer missile pods. Small mistake but figured I would correct you anyways.

[@PrimordialNightmare]

since the halberd is a similar size as the frigates, wouldn't it make sense for infinity class cruisers to have a few of them as well underslung, instead of only frigates?

[@argus2389]

Please do a video on Rebel One from Star Wars. It's a providence class with the wings of an MC80 and the engines of a recusant class

[@lenaistalar8032]

sooo.. it's a capital ugly? xD

[@lovelybraintoaster164]

There are no ugly spaceships, just those that are a bit less aesthetically pleasing.

[@lenaistalar8032]

ahh, i didn't want to say it would look ugly. Uglies in star wars are just ships scrapped together from different base ships. Most often seen in fighter sizes and flown by mercs^^ Or at least they were called "uglies" under the old canon

[@argus2389]

It's an ugly, but it's like the Deathraven, meaning it's a damn good ship and still looks good Also uglies are in the new canon. Star Wars explained did a video on it

[@chadhendrickson2646]

The ship kind of looks like The Staff of Charon

[@zeberday1]

OMG! This is a dream team up :)

[@elopeous3285]

Can you do a science video on slipspace technology in halo?

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

It's kinda hard to tbf, it's very vague as even in the setting Humanity doesn't fully understand it, and that's before you start adding in Forerunner systems like Reconciliation.

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

+Avensis Astari there's still a lot to talk about, though. Halo warfleets did a fantastic job of explaining it, in addition to really driving home just how much better covenant drives were in comparison to UNSC ones.

[@insanehellboy6212]

I love this ship

[@rossburnett9546]

Probably my favourite halo ship

[@davesobani9565]

Perhaps you have coverd this fighter design , but if you havent . Would you take a look at the SA-43 Hammerhead from Space Above and Beyond?

[@starfuryms582]

At least Eckhart managed to pronounce 'Iroquois' properly, unlike the guy who narated the video describing the Keyes Loop.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Maybe EckhartsLadder should do a Sins Of The Prophets Let's Play.

[@Slakx310]

hmm so used to ecks voice that I didn't thought it isn't his channel xDD

[@novaimperator1526]

eckharts ladder is here :D

[@thirdworldrider6991]

man i would love to see this lovely ship rendered with full lighting and bloom and occlusion ambient and otherwise with star citizen graphics, star citizen (if good for nothing else) has given us some awesome ship graphics, just looking at the plain static 2d picture of a halberd doesnt do it justice. same with the idris frigate in star citizen but when you see it rendered in fmv in all its glory...its awesome. too bad we cant get a halo game where theres ground pounding and ship strategy involved like kind of a 4x game where u can play as unsc.

[@terrancechilds3049]

Is this ship a match for an earth Force Heavy Cruiser from Babylon 5?

[@epiktoo5002]

"Sins of the prophets" is a mod for the game Sins Of Solar Empire (the Rebellion one) And you should do a video one this game , he is awesome !

[@juszl2999]

Vaygr Battlecruiser next?

[@zachboyd4749]

Charon-class frigate next please.

[@joshuaaxford516]

Best unsc in my books, just wish it was abit longer to better separate it from the piddly frigates

[@donpacificbobcat9er615]

Did he just say that the Destroyer is smaller than all other types of Frigate save the Strident class? Last time I checked, the Strident class are the largest Frigates in the UNSC fleet!

[@theimmortalsuperbeing549]

Just watched your vid on Ladders Chanel really awesome and Ladders video on here was awesome too. Can you explain Atlantis ? Is it a City a City Ship a space station that can land WHAT lol ?.

[@TheVeritas1]

It's a city ship. By the way, Spacedock did a cool video on Atlantis City Ships.

[@zakiducky]

My only complaint is the mispronunciation of Iroquois. Nice video.

[@donisip]

Can you do Autumn- class heavy cruiser vs Imperial 1-class Star Destroyer

[@crackedemerald4930]

Do a video on the vulture droid, it's my favourite

[@valeriyparshin2886]

Do some 40k stuff again, how about Titans?

[@ron948]

Can you do the UNSC Punic class ship next.

[@colinjones3871]

that is cool

[@YoBen100]

Can you cover the Star Wars Darth Revan's flagship Leviathan?

[@jonathanpirolo3996]

hey Justin

[@gabrielganzaga365]

Sins of the prophets is such a cool mod

[@kpmh2001]

Do the Punic class supercarrier

[@DBPCINC]

I wish we saw this in game :(

[@rasheedqe]

Damn that's a sexy looking ship.

[@negativejam2188]

I wonder why we don’t see as many of these past the human covenant war. Seems most or all have been replaced by Paris-heavy frigates. Paris seems to be the go-to frigate. Even post HC war. The strident has too short a range to operate on its own from a large carrier, and the light frigates are more landingcraft than anything. I wonder if it’s because the Paris is just more cost effective.

[@armni4619]

Post war UNSC is the most moronic it could ever be imo. Chose to build large and expensive: Autumn class cruisers, a 2nd Infinity class carrier(Eternity), A Carrier ship class that's 1/2 a cruiser's size(Poseidon) when every generic UNSC ship class had a support(fighter, bomber, shuttle, etc) element, A Battleship class(Vindication- light class, so what's the heavy class??) comparable in size to a VALIANT CLASS, in a time where they were scrambling for ship numbers to patrol their space, over focusing on building and upgrading destroyers, corvettes and frigates. A war time halberd class was equated by a 7:4 number parity to a covenant frigate. The strident has a MAC comparable to a destroyer's 2, survived(eventually destroyed) an extended fight with a CCS over Draetheus V and one-shot a CRS cruiser in spartan ops. 100 howler missiles are estimated to kill an unshielded CPV Destroyer. Solutions; place all the strident's post war tech onto a wartime destroyer.🤷‍♂️ use eternity's resource material to build MOBILE MONCTON CLASS ODP's(internal power source) for remaining colonies, to lessen patrol needs.🤷‍♂️ Maintain carrier elements in all ships(versatility, reduces a carrier class's need)🤷‍♂️ They chose to separate a Paris frigate's balanced dual roles of ground and space support into; A Heavy firepower frigate, without the needed stamina(ammo count), relegating it to defensive ops(strident) A next-gen frigate for troop movement and ground support with DE weapons and an extensive E-War suite, more effective in space combat(Anlance) The Autumn class cruiser is ok as a next gen class but still to expensive for its current role imo. If lost, it would take longer to replace than a destroyer battlegroup of 6 ships, with the UNSC's post war state. They should have been made as command ships, like the valiants' were. The retirement of the paris and stalwart classes is also idiotic. Paris class was a very cheap and balanced frigate. Just needed a tech upgrade. Stalwart was a less advanced and cheaper anlance in primary role. Just needed a tech upgrade. Infinity was built as a lifeboat. Its entire design is NOT carrier centred but liveship centred. This brings operational inefficiencies when acting as a carrier. A Punic was designed, built, tested and used as a carrier. No abrupt design change. It had 2 supermacs and also onagers. Just needed a tech upgrade.

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

Spacedock, any thoughts on setting up a discord?

[@bennuredjedi]

When did a Destroyer become smaller than a Frigate?

[@brandonm1881]

Id choose this ship to command

[@paulking2190]

Hi Spacedock your videos are great please could you do a summary of the Ori ships from Stargate SG1? Thank you :)

[@s0r1ns3c]

Can you do a video on the Marathon class?

[@Dumb-Comment]

Will we see some star citizen ships in the future?

[@Theri4444]

can you do the UNSC Infinity

[@NRG101-y5u]

cool

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

what game where they playing to show case that, it looked like it was Empire at war

[@Xozkov]

It's sins of the prophets mod

[@eamon3040]

Where is that footage from at 1:40?

[@bennyjones7292]

Upgrade this frigate class into a Battleship and double it's weapons systems

[@w.thomas1526]

>Iriqua *>Iriqua* oh damnit eckhart

[@w.thomas1526]

Hm. Must just be difference in area then. Here it's pronounced Iri-koi.

[@maxsteel4934]

Could you do the blue typhoon from sonic X? Not sure if its something you'd do a video but I'd really wanna see it

[@markscrivener7696]

Marathon Class Heavy Cruiser Plz. P.S. It’s from halo

[@gregbagel791]

Is there a halo ship game?

[@tn_bluetick231]

Someone tell me the exact difference between a destroyer and a frigate. Cause don’t they both just escort larger ships and protect the edge of fleets, and use the same wolf pack tactics.

[@thegamingzilla6269]

Tyler Bayless frigates are usay lightly armored and have a low weapon count so that their mass doesnt hinder their speed

[@markscrivener7696]

How is a halter 500m long and only crewed by 350people. The us supercarriers have to be crewed around 3000 give or take without the aviation crew carriers are around 300m long

[@chanachon56]

Mark Scrivener You have to remember that the halo universe is set 500 years in the future. By said time, humanity has advanced it's knowledge in automation and artificial intelligence to the point that you need less men to do more stuff.

[@markscrivener7696]

FAIR point i just fimd it hard to beleive its 500 meters I am a big halo ship fan but also a navy brat and been around ships a lot and seen carriers its just pointless to have a ship 500m long for it just to be a destroyer like how many technicans repair people need to be on the ship 250 people is to low

[@kylemills9192]

You're motto is any spacecraft any sci-fi so why do I not see any videos about the Homeworld universe? Please consider adding this to your repertoire. I'd love to hear your opinions and analysis of this franchise.

[@Ghost-ur6su]

Is the footage from a game of some kind?

[@colecoal1365]

Sean G yes kinda, it’s a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion called sins of the prophets

[@unavailable8813]

2x 1000mm coilguns.

[@chomper720]

You sci-fi tubers all get along huh? :3

[@chomper720]

He he, so have you even considered the Daleks vs the Flood? :D

[@beardedgent2178]

Small ship Large Firepower

[@Demolitiondude]

USS cygnus.

[@jmfowler9062]

Ear-o-koi Not ear-a-kwah

[@jmfowler9062]

@Aiden Hunter i was certain the 'u' was silent. Not arguing just stating. Ill have to look into it more.