HALO | UNSC Home Fleet: Battle for Earth

[Epic CG Animation] The Battle of Earth was the largest engagement fought between the Covenant and the UNSC. It took place on and above the planet Earth and across the Sol System from October 20, 2552 to November 17. The UNSC Home Fleet consisted of 3 fleets of 90 Halcyon and Valiant-class cruisers, 8 carriers, and 300 Frigates, 30 destroyers, and thousands of Longsword Interceptors. The Prophet of Regret arrived out of slipspace with the Fleet of Sacred Consecration - 2 Assault Carriers and 13 CCS-class battlecrusiers.
Regret's fleet converged on the Home Fleet, and when in range received heavy fire from the Orbital Defense Platforms orbiting Earth. Fleet Admiral Harper intended to engage his fleet, but received orders from Lord Hood to defend the ODP's. The Covenant boarded at least three ODP's and internally demolished them with an antimatter charge. The 2 Assault Carriers eventually broke through, but one was destroyed by their own antimatter charge from the Master Chief. Regret's Assault Carrier came to a stop over New Mombasa, while the rest of his fleet engaged the Home Fleet over the Orbital Defense Grid...
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Finally finished this animation! This animation took the most effort by far, taking 4 hours to create 10 seconds of some of scenes. I started it a month ago, and I'm fairly happy with the way it turned out. There were still a few problems that might have been noticed. To point out one, to the attentive eye it's fairly obvious which scenes were created first (the absence of the ODP's around earth in the earlier scenes :P). I think It had more epic moments than bland though, especially near the end.
Many thanks to my subscribers, you guys are the best. I always read your comments, and the idea for this animation actually came from a comment on one of previous animations (the Halo 3 cutscene remake I think). Most video games (except Mass Effect 3) have scenes where an epic space battle is taking place, but you never see it, or you only see a small skirmish in it. I wanted to show the full-scale engagement in all its glory (and its low framerate).
For those of you following the appearance of the banana, it makes 2 appearances (floating legs also make an appearance, though not intentionally :P). Also, I tried to make the credits a bit more interesting this time, let me know if you like these types of credits or not.
Thanks to my subscribers again, and If you haven't subscribed, please do! I don't have an animation planned in the next week or two but you can be sure to see one or two in June. If you have any ideas for an animation, shoot me a PM or tell me in the comments section below :)
takayuki to hidenori rock!
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[@peggybailey6684]

I was in that battle I flew a long sword and took out a carrier then I got shot down but I ejected and landed and a orbital defence platform

[@343TheSentient]

Wow good for you! Must have been a C709 Longsword Variant. Did the Ejection Seat work well for you? My dad was in the Insurrection Battle of 2475 - all the Longsword Enviorment Systems malfunctioned simultaneously and deployed chutes. About 3 squadrons of 30 fighters became Paratroopers in space. Anyway thank you for your service Veteran.

[@masterchief7925]

Spartan jake 0-25 while i was protecting the station

[@roach99999]

Is this roleplay or something?

[@bargainbin6162]

Bannana Guy Are you making a joke Private or did my training take the breath out of you that made you get memory loss?! No buts Private now give me 50!!!

[@g0ldng0nads7]

All of you must die.

[@eueueueueueueueueish]

I would totally pay for a halo game where you could have naval battles like this

[@oscardominguez5107]

Yea is awesome

[@cyronader]

+gabriel nappi never going to happen, it's all about making quick and easy fps games. But there is Halo Sins of the Prophets.

[@adammc7170]

+gabriel nappi There's a mod for a game called Sins of a Solar Empire that allows you to play as the UNSC or the Covenant.

[@hatman4818]

+gabriel nappi Since bungie's attempt at making something unique and different for the series flopped (halo ODST) and making something derivative skyrocketed (halo Reach), bungie and 343 decided that not branching out TOO much is the best way to handle the series. It's a shame too. ODST didnt flop because nobody liked it, it flopped because bungie put so much effort into reach instead that they left ODST basically a half baked concept, and yet, they charged triple A price for it on release. However, if you want halo naval combat, Im pretty sure Home-world has some halo mods you could track down.

[@COLDDEATHDESTROYER]

+gabriel nappi Homeworld 2 Homefront mod, or if you want even larger fleets, sins of the prophets mod for sins of a solar empire rebellion.

[@Geckogold]

I like the contrast in the UNSC's boxy ship designs compared to the sleek and curvy Covenant fleet.

[@-noplangaming-9268]

Ikr

[@edgartj17]

Covenant design of their spaceships is pure art. Looks nothing like we seen before in shows or movies yet looks super nice

[@CoolSmoovie]

Always thought the UNSC’s theme was blocky/industrial/built to work and take a beating, hated how halo 4/5 gave Spartans/UNSC a much smoother futurist design.

[@kingdrogo6124]

Lol well one of their ships is called a corvette class which says it all

[@tsarbombawithinternetconne875]

@@CoolSmoovie Maybe because of how humanity advanced after the war since they built new ships integrated with forerunner/covenant class shielding

[@ray-0249]

6:46 I love how the frigate speeds towards the ccs and fires it’s Mac only to evade like some wild distraction then the super Mac cannon/orbital platform fires its devastating shot. Makes the battle feel more realistic like I’d see this in a legit halo cinematic.

[@sixbases6793]

I say is the In Amber Clad :)

[@donterrenoalto4235]

What a sound

[@Marigold11]

i find the lack of Mac shots disturbing

[@deckerbarborka6405]

A fellow SW memer? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@dr.boring7022]

Remember when the admiral said that the Covenant were out of range for the MAC Guns? Or something like that.

[@gameoflife9576]

@@dr.boring7022 yeah the covenant ships were out of the dead zone.You can clearly see on the screen when they discuss the plan.

[@dr.boring7022]

@@gameoflife9576 Oddly enough, during the mission, once you get to the part where you're looking at outer space, you can see the MAC firing. Yet when the cutscene comes, the Covenant ships are apparently below the ODP... man, the Covies had massive plot armor.

[@ray-0249]

The unsc cruisers in this battle were not equipped with such weapon systems, the frigates were and the frigates had no size able target for its shell to do any form of damage especially at that range, that’s why the Mac cannons were there, and the stations were spread out in different sectors and were also limited by range which is why the covenant chose to stay the distance that they were for sometime (clearing up most of the fleet before moving in for the orbital stations) the unsc cruisers in this battle were mainly fitted with vulture missiles, MM canons with few having nuclear capabilities. This was humanities last stand with whatever ships and arsenal they had left after enduring the 3 decade long war.

[@Harry_S._Plinkett]

Seeing this just makes me sad there are no space battles in Halo Wars 2.

[@fharedabul1156]

Harry S. Plinkett same here

[@_grug__]

Harry S. Plinkett You never know, they could decide to add those in before release or after as a DLC.

[@codyparkes9836]

Harry S. Plinkett there's one mission in reach

[@lardass9532]

Nobody talks about that one...

[@Ajc-ni3xn]

Harry S. Plinkett yeah plus I LOVE GIANT SPACE BATTLES!

[@kevinpierce6955]

There's a lot of potential in the halo franchise for a great space warfare game, that I feel will never be tapped into. I really like the ships designs and characteristics, as well as the way they are used in the game; being able to move across galaxies, fight naval space engagements, or deploy thousands of troops/materials to the surface of planets. Their the best fantasy space warahips of all IMO.

[@LEGOBoy922]

Kevin Pierce Yeah, but atleast we get Halo: Fleet Battles which is great all on it's own.

[@kamilpotato3764]

+Kevin Pierce Potential? Sadly no. UNSC wasn't much of the opposition to the Covenant Fleet. They only won in space when they could sacrifice lots of own ships to take one of the Covenant ship. Sadly only once we read about use of NOVA bomb.

[@kompav5621]

Kevin Pierce Play Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion's Sins of the Prophets mod. It is the closest space RTS of Halo that I have experienced that I can vouch for. And I can tell you right now, you'd be surprised at how well UNSC ships can stand toe-to-toe with Covenant ships. Strategy, and a fuck ton of credits is what will win the war against the Covenant in SOTP.

[@MrRolled1]

Kevin Pierce was the Nova bomb the one sublime transcendence recovered but accidentally destroyed the only covenant supercarrier know

[@partyp3opl393]

+kamil potatoe Uhhh, no? I'm sorry. But isn't it 3 MAC blasts to destroy one covenant ship? And doesn't Cortana say that they destroyed 5 or so covenant ships in Halo 1 before they crashed on Halo?

[@anthonylong9067]

Then at the end. Sgt johnson: Dear, humanity. We regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to earth, and we most definitely regret the corp just blew up our RAGGEDY ASS FLEET! Ooh rah!

[@shirleyfogarty5765]

+ANAL PRIME cool, more fleets to blow up

[@JustAwesome360]

HaloProductionsPc yeah the whole reason humans won there was because the prophet of regret fucked up.

[@anthonylong9067]

***** safe to say *puts glasses on* He regretted that decision YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH

[@kentbolhano3049]

Huurah!

[@zachburkle9426]

Anthony Long OOH RAH!

[@theblasphemousgospel6824]

HALO one of the best game series ever created!

[@reijiropaws6593]

true

[@Tigadee00]

Couldn't agree more! One of the few games where they got it just right.

[@admiralpiett3128]

Tigadee00 Until 4 and above.

[@n.b.9533]

And 343I ruined it

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

I think it is still good, but reqs will kill it

[@horationelson2440]

Just imagine the conversation on the bridge on the covenant side. "Prophet, we have found one of the human's planets." "Great, this will be another cakewalk, like all of the other colonies." "Sir, there appears to be hundreds of ships, and more orbital defense platforms than we've ever seen before!" "Uhh, umm, attack with everything we have?"

[@Dalipsingh111111]

And they still basically won...

[@AnonymCzZ]

@@Dalipsingh111111 Not really, they got destroyed and rekted hard thats why they left from Mombasa. Then second attack arrived with largest fleet ever recorded, over 500 ships and yet even though humanity fleet was basically wiped out they managed to reduce numbers just to 40 Covenant ships which is incredible.

[@Dalipsingh111111]

@@AnonymCzZ Ok, i didnt know that. Thanks! Indeed, thats incredible. Wasnt it said at this point of the plot that a human fleet needs to outnumber a Covenant Fleet 3-1 to have an even fight?

[@AnonymCzZ]

@@Dalipsingh111111 Yes, but most of the destroying did ODP. There was total 300 of them and they were probably what stopped most of the Covenant. Its that platform from very first mission in Halo 2.

[@June-qw3uh]

Why does everyone seem to think that the entire UNSC fleet is made of Halcyon class ships and light frigates with the Infinity tacked on? Pillar of Autumn was pretty much the only one still militarized.

[@ThatZommy]

FINALLY! In fact, Pillar of Autumn had to have extensive refits just to be CAPABLE of battle.

[@AJudgeFredd]

After Reach, the UNSC called all the Halcyons out of mothball, along with all their other mothballed ships, basically flooding the airspace with ships in the hope they can inflict enough casualties to stop the covenant.

[@ThatZommy]

Lieutenant Fred I didn't know that. Thanks for the information.

[@MysticalCyan]

Those vessels may look like Halcyon class light cruisers but those are in fact Marathon Class Heavy Cruisers, in the books and in the game Marathon Cruisers were more numerous then the Halcyon but still low in number, almost every Marathon Cruiser was pulled back to Earth or the Inner Colonies due to their power in ship to ship combat. However the majority of the fleet were destroyers and frigates there were still numerous Marathon vessels in the Battle of Earth

[@SpaceNavy90]

Bioo the Pumpkin Reaper Lore wise, they should be Marathon's, but in the video they are definitely Halcyon-class cruisers.

[@wolfgangod69]

I remember as a kid watching this and I was totally blown away and I still am just sad to see what Halo has become she is not been the same

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

I Think Its Good Its Forgotten Think About What Will Happen When The Game Becomes Real Popular The So Called (Creative People ) Will Change What Halo Was In The Same Tier They Have Changed Star Wars Into Failed Unmemorable HeapSack

[@RexMcMonkey]

You know how alot of people didn't like Halo Wars? Well they left out a very long time awaited and favored aspect. Space battles. That would've made the game way better. Like if you chose UNSC your advantage would be such as like surplus ships, so you can overwhelm the Covies cause we all know the Covie ships are OP. And Covies can have better shields or something. And the whole goal is to go on a space campaign and try to defeat eachother's home world. That'd be amazing.

[@PB-sg6zt]

Certainly be something I'd want to play.

[@johnnyisherela]

Phillip Breeding Sins of a solar empire - Sins of the prophets expansion. Check it out

[@PB-sg6zt]

johnnyisherela I will! Thanks.

[@calebbrown419]

Actually, I think a bonus of the UNSC would be ships that were less expensive to build, the covies certainly had a numerical advantage at every outset.

[@JacobBaugher]

Actaully there's a Halo RTS mod for Sins of a Solar Empire called Sins of the Prophets. It's fucking amazing www.moddb.com/mods/halo-sins-of-the-prophets

[@HawkEye9323]

I want a Halo game that is all space battles in an open world XD. Just no spread sheets please.

[@thevideolord]

Senba Sins of a solar empire with the Sins Of The Prophets mod or Homfront mod for Homeworld 2

[@shadowgod3211]

Brandon Hendrick but you would have to wait for the next update (which is taking a long ass freaking time -_-)

[@VastHorizons71]

That would rock

[@LEGOBoy922]

Senba Well, that sadly isn't going to happen... But hey! Halo: Fleet Battles is looking up to be fun, even if it's a tabletop game!

[@thevideolord]

Prince .shadow the only real thing about the next update is the Infinity

[@IceKisaragi13]

I'm honestly so happy someone took the time to animated this battle. It was so pivotal to the story yet so brushed over and barely acknowledged at all, seem as it's only really shown from chiefs perspective on Cairo, which is okay but still. Huge, completely missed opportunity.

[@fragmale7262]

3:18 great screenshot for a background

[@kingsizeblues616]

343-Studios should make an entire new Halo-franchise which is based only on space-battles yet with campaign/skirmish/multiplayer, and release it for the following platforms 'Xbox-One/PS4/PC'...yet the players even be able to upgrade and purchase thier space-crafts and even be able to add the players personal-emblems to thier aerial-space-craft-ships while at space-dockyard-animation-menu's; with missions and battles taking place in both obviously space and also in aeril-to-ground-bombardment-operations, it would bring the Halo-universe to an all outstanding new level...they should think about it. :)

[@kingkarper1357]

I would love that

[@kingsizeblues616]

king karper My friend wrote that! But yeah its a pretty awesome idea haha :p

[@isaachoover2229]

That would be awesome but too bad 343i doesn't listen to us Halo fans

[@areallymeanperson]

+Isaac Hoover they do, they just teased infection and teased Halo wars 2 last year (a game wanted by many fans) they put in Grifball, fiesta and Assault adding in a mantis that shoots gauss rounds (i think thats what its called, correct me if i'm wrong) Warzone FIREFIGHT!! and the most important part, plasma rifle

[@jon33709]

that will be cool, but only for Xbox. Fuck ps4! why should they get halo?

[@SmoothOthello]

This is amazing seeing all the covenant ships especially with their shields on was intimidating, sounds like as players we got off easy just killing the fire teams who were boaring us.

[@meowsandstuff]

The most awesome part about this is that the guy continued to animate the ships, even when they were out of the camera's field of view!

[@nongjude]

am i the only one who watched this when i was a kid? (this was one of the videos that made me a space fan)

[@Medskywalker]

Same

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

I'd just like to say your animation work is AMAZING. I've watched through so many of these and I'm absolutely astonished. I'm so glad you made these videos to give a visual depiction of halo lore.

[@mikaaoife6557]

Coming from a Mass Effect fan this game looks pretty badass. Awesome music too.

[@chukky1124]

indeed .. big mass effect fan here ..but this looks awesome

[@delta2372]

+chukky1124 well this is 375 years after the first battle of earth (mass effect) but that's just a fan made theory of mine that they exsist in the same timeline don't judge me

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

forgive me but how can they if in HALO there are no mass relays, geth like organisms, or anything from Mass Effect. the most advanced thing in HALO is the HALO instalations. no hate, mass effect for life

[@nathankinney7971]

The music is from transformers dark of the moon i think

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

Nathan Kinney it is, I think it says either in description or video credits. Also he said it in a reply to a comment

[@jetengnexd4348]

Its sad to know there will never be anything more epic than this.

[@RedChaoticGamer]

That was some amazing animation!

[@damianthorne4533]

Just saying, but why is everyone criticizing this animation? This video was OBVIOUSLY done for entertainment purposes only. It doesn't comply with the books or movies and it doesn't have to! I personally love spacebattles and loved this animation. So, all you people who are talking about how there was 'A certain number of these ships and none of these' please be quiet. No offense meant, of course. :D

[@izaakanderson7691]

agreed this isn't ment to be judged, it's there to entertain ppl

[@ryanarchuleta6231]

Heres some food for thought. Mass effects most powerful/long ships (1 kilometer Dreadnoughts) most powerful weapons launch 20 kilogram slugs at 2000 miles per second (With a 38 kiloton yield) . There are only 89 dreadnoughts in ME (Only 8 are human). Halo ODP's launch 3000 ton tungsten rounds at 8000miles per second, and deal 60 GIGATON yields (60,000,000) kilotons. It sounds freakin ridiculous, but it may explain why EVERY FLEET in the mass effect galaxy literally shot the shit out of 300 soverign class reapers (2 kilometers tall), and all of their rounds were doing as much damage as a bb gun (WATCH the cutscene on youtube). I can guarantee that a single ODP MAC would tear through several reapers in one hit. 60 Gigatons is WAY more powerful than entire volleys of 38 kiloton mass effect rounds.

[@endorsedbryce]

Ryan Archuleta Thing is that the ships where moving towards that mac guns to witch means the volicites would be even higher.

[@Adog110]

+Shipmaster Rtas Vadum It takes such fire power to destroy a reaper due to the metal they are made from. It is not a metal that has been discovered by humans or any other race in the ME universe but it is super dense and resistant to damage. Some reapers also have some form of shielding and through using ME fields they can lower the mass of objects around them. They are weak at points though, watch the final battle in ME 3 and you see they blast the legs off a few reapers with relative ease, just front facing they are too strong.

[@ryanarchuleta6231]

Well, when your rounds are only a few kilotons worth of explosive force, of course it would take forever to destroy one. 50 Gigatons is a lot higher than a few kilotons. Also, the Forerunners had weapons that could cut off a section of a planets crust and slam it back down on the planet.

[@josuemonroygarcia9125]

its pretyy anoying. thos "star wars vs halo" "halo vs mass effect" " star trek vs star wars" are a stupd waste of time

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

I made a giant paragraph about who would win in a battle, on ground and space, might have been a waste of time, but I loved doing it

[@TheObscuran]

wow man this on another level, it was great and I really enjoyed it, I simply loved everything.

[@wolfboy18]

I would love to see more of this. Great job.

[@mistersmiley9425]

It'd be cool if one of the many Halo Companies made it so theres a mission where you fly around in a Longsword in a epic Space Battle. I'd love that.

[@mrcoolny1]

you mean like in halo reach but bigger?

[@mistersmiley9425]

Yeah, but in stead a Longsword and a epic space battle between UNSC and the Covenant.

[@aquaman3113]

There's a homeworld Halo mod that's really cool. Homeworld is basically a game about space battles. The mod lets you play as the humans or covenant, create and battle canon Halo ships, and play at Halo locations. You can play at installation 04, Reach, and a bunch of other cool places. It's pretty hard if you're a first timer, but there are some awesome KZbin videos about it.

[@mistersmiley9425]

-Reads 2 words- I know what Homeworld is...

[@ingamingpc1634]

Alan V oceanofgames.com

[@hd150]

funny thing the covenant did not know this was earths home planet

[@dimercenary3090]

The Prophet of Truth knew, he just decided not to tell Regret, to understand what I mean you need to read Halo: First Strike which describes a mission carried out by the surviving Spartans to sabotage a Covenant fleet meant to strike Earth and buy the UNSC Home Fleet more time to prepare.

[@Bl4der11seven]

Yah he's right after the events on halo 1 chief went back to reach, met up with what's left of Red Team, did a bunch of stuff with a forerunner crystal that isn't significant to the battle of earth, and then red team was sent an a mission that nearly cut in half the covenants forces before the battled for earth, at which point truth concluded that Earth was the humans home planet because of their desperate attempt to sever the fleet.

[@hd150]

***** well they done fucked up

[@user-wz1wt3br1s]

Chase Dimmer Well Truth just saved humanity

[@Halo117Legend]

Earths home planet? Lol what the fuck is that supposed to mean. You mean humans home planet dumbfuck.

[@nuwlegoman565]

awesome job on this!

[@TheAero1221]

Blows my mind how far animation has come in just the last few years...

[@freakshow7460]

“Slip Space rupture detected” “Slip Space rupture detected” “Slip Space rupture detected” “Slip Space rupture detected”

[@penisraiel]

That's not right the Halcyon was retired because of budget cuts, though its honeycomb shaped design was superior (giving it greater hull support and density) it's still 50+ year old design and obsolete because of its lack of maneuverability. The Pillar of Autumn was the last one in service and it was brought back into service after retirement because it was the only ship available to give Keyes.

[@Manuelomar2001]

Those weren't Halcyon class ships, they were Marathon-class heavy cruisers. They look very similar (all the heavy UNSC ships have the same basic shape) but they're much larger.

[@DoctorLifeMD]

***** The Infinity was hidden on the very edges of the Sol system. If it had moved into action with its new MAC cannons, the Battle of Earth would've been more of a slaughter for the Covenant than a real battle, so yes and no doesn't count. It's a definite *NO.* And I'm not sure if your comment supports the presence of Halcyons, but, there were definitely no Halcyon-class light cruisers in the Home Fleet and right after the Battle of Earth, the Home Fleet was decimated with only a tiny number of ships remaining, presumably crippled Marathon-class heavy cruisers and dozens of light and heavy frigates (Charon-class and Paris-class). There were definitely no Autumn-class heavy cruisers in the Home Fleet (You mentioned the Song of the East, an Autumn-class, but it wasn't even built by then). The Autumn-class heavy cruisers boast enough firepower to force a Covenant fleet to turn tail.

[@Manuelomar2001]

-Stealer-L1F3 Actually, no. According to this: halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_Infinity Infinity was built after the end of the war, and didn't go into service until 2553, almost a year after the war's end. It had not yet been built when the First Battle of Earth occurred,

[@DoctorLifeMD]

***** The wikia mentions nothing of that, so my point stands. The Infinity was still awaiting its Forerunner engines by the end of 2552 and it was stationed *one light-year away from Sol, in the Oort Cloud.*

[@DoctorLifeMD]

***** Uh... what? Did you mean that the PoA was featured in Halo 2? Don't make me laugh! It was present only in Halo: CE and Halo: CEA as well as Halo Wars (a short appearance over Arcadia).

[@EstebanMataVargas]

I admire your hard work and commitment. Congratulations!

[@spacedragon1175]

wow I can't believe I found a video from 11 years ago!!! This is crazy, I thought that old videos like this were deleted!!!!

[@cmdcody9683]

I heard star wars sonic detonators explosion sounds

[@korickarmstrong3468]

Way too many Halcyon Class Cruisers there. Pretty sure there were only about 6 Left in the entire fleet, including the Autumn.

[@FreemanFreak87]

This was during halo 2. The Autumn was destroyed. Plus the battle was over earth meaning that they could have built more. On last point. Earth is the beginning of humanity it's self, why wouldn't the U.N.S.C have almost all there fleets protecting it. Earth's the U.N.S.C's home base. It's going to be overly protected with everything the U.N.S.C has.

[@korickarmstrong3468]

They wouldn't build more of a class of starship deeemed to expensive and thus was mothballed.

[@FreemanFreak87]

I know, I said they could. But not all Halcyon's where sent out to Harvest, Reach, and the other colonies. So there has to be a couple of fleet's of left orbiting Earth. A couple being two. But you're right in some aspect. After the Covenant attacked Earth, The whole half of the Covenant fleet, the half under the command of the brutes and truth, they returned to Earth to: "Finish what they started." A.K.A travel to the Ark via the forerunner slip-space portal emitter buried under the now glassed New Mombasa. So when the Brute fleet returned to Earth then they wiped-out basically the whole U.N.S.C fleet over Earth. Leaving 6 Halcyon class cruisers left.

[@korickarmstrong3468]

Nicholas LaRock, you are REALLY wrong. It is stated in "Halo: Fall of Reach" that at the time of the Battle for Reach, the pillar of Autumn was one of the six remaining Halcyon fucking cruisers left IN THE ENTIRE UNSC FLEET, BEFORE the battle for Earth. Like I said, the ship type had been moth balled due to how expensive it was to make but made for a great defenseive ship. Hell, the Autumn had been so suped up that it managed to take out I think it was 8 whole covenant ships on its own, where as normal UNSC vessels need to have three of them against one covenant ship.

[@FreemanFreak87]

Dakota Mertens Well then I have a fuzzy memory. I'm sorry. No need to swear and caps. I'm still having a hard time finding my old halo books in my storage unit. You're probably right, but I was just sharing what I presumed happened (That I did read but am a littl.... *Ahem* I am "really" fuzzy on the details.) It's been a while. And thanks to you I learned from this. I learned that there where actually 6 Halycon class cruisers that manged to survive the Fall of Reach. Maybe now it's 5, counting the events of Installation 04.

[@midautumnsmoon4859]

This is awesome, thx for making this video

[@h3llphish111]

Now that H2A is out, I'd appreciate a remake with updated graphics :)

[@FakeJeep]

Good video although my only gripe is the MAIN weapon on all of those ships are the MAC cannons which I don't see used until a light frigate charges forward to fire at a cruiser? Those heavy cruisers would have/should have opened up with the MACs early on.

[@paulcastillo930]

Because MACs are largely useless against sheilds,when the sheilds drop on ships they use them.

[@DoctorLifeMD]

Paul Castillo MACs are the primary shield-buster weapons, so you are wrong. The typical UNSC tactic is to fire a salvo of MAC slugs, then finish the enemy ships with a combination of a hundred missiles and MAC slugs.

[@FakeJeep]

Somebody never read the novels or played the first game...

[@paulcastillo930]

-Stealer-L1F3 Alright then,I was just taking things off the wiki.

[@DoctorLifeMD]

Paul Castillo What I said was from the wiki. Without the MACs, there is no other way the UNSC could lower the shields, unless they send nukes.

[@NuttDog117]

They must make a Halo games featuring all the space battles.

[@MacMuirTravis]

Look up the Sins of a solar empire. Sins of the Prophets.

[@NuttDog117]

What Forerunner fleet? I didn't say anything about Forerunners being involved. Presently where the Halo story arc is, there haven't been any fleet engagements that humanity has encountered. Ideally, the most significant and major battles in space we're during the human-covenant war, and maybe a few during the insurrection. If a game is developed for space battles, it should be centered around 2494 to 2552.

[@NuttDog117]

***** Before 2552 the UNSC hadn't fought any Forerunner ships. In Halo 4 there was only the Didact's ship which really isn't much to go on right now. The spaces during the human-covenant war are more interesting anyway and would have more potential.

[@NuttDog117]

My bad. Seems like you were talking to me when I was notified of the replied comment.

[@Nagrachlp]

Play Freespace 2 and make a Halo mod ;)

[@joshuapurdy7065]

This was awesome

[@backwardrecon22]

Yes i have heard this before, but in Halo The Cole Protocol, Captain Keyes took on what i think was maybe 4 covenant ships (im not for sure about the number of ships) with the Mid Summer Night, and he won, it was the best space tactic ever used my any UNSC commander.

[@jojo-wx8kw]

*hectically launches all firestorm interceptors*

[@brockcherry5303]

jojo1234 there called longswords.

[@jojo-wx8kw]

Brock Cherry *giggles in x-com*

[@paulcastillo930]

Eh,even in halo 4 the covenant have better ships,a super carrier can decimate a infinity anyday,and they had several dozen super carriers.

[@stuarttoda3448]

Nope. Infinity has main character spartans. Spartans never die, main characters don't either.

[@paulcastillo930]

Stuart Toda Main characters do,look at halo:reach,your own character even dies.

[@stuarttoda3448]

True, however, int he overall plot of the halo franchise, six wasn't very important.

[@stuarttoda3448]

Besides, Infinity has forrunner tech. It also carries ten frigates and has laser projecters.

[@masterbuilder675]

Actually, the Infinity would destroy a super carrier in one shot. It is the only ship capable in the UNSC fleet to be able to punch holes through forerunner shields and armor.

[@missbish1000]

Excellent job on this. I really enjoyed it. looking forwards to more.

[@alejandrop8927]

I think what made the Older halos better is the fact that Humans were weak and being killed easily by the covenant and just being able to overcome there superiority just felt awesome.

[@christopherdorat7186]

straight up...awsome video

[@lightartorias552]

awesome vid man. There should be a lot more of these

[@alexistoxqui6984]

This was really good and great job

[@Defightfordelightfrfrongoht492]

YOOO! my great grandpa fought in that battle. He was a marine on the UNSC Spike'n'Pike. He ended up dying due to boarding parties. It was a shame

[@Tktye]

Dude, nice work man

[@fartingbadger4834]

great job I loved it

[@picard120]

awesome. I can't wait for part 2

[@joesomontan9374]

This is pretty sick. Nice job and creating this!

[@Spendingryan]

Amazing! Nice work buddy

[@jpshepperd30]

Easily the best halo vid i have seen, nice job man.

[@123GOHANZ]

Earned a subscriber with this. So awesome!

[@doodihealz7369]

amazing work man, absolutely astounding :)

[@cordobajvr]

Man this was really cool

[@TheWulf899]

Really good work on the ship models.

[@randomguy712]

this is fantastic

[@torq72]

Dude this was sweet. Great job!

[@DavidCastillo-jl2bm]

I really liked this is awesome!

[@ZCasavant]

Great job

[@gerryw173ify]

Nicely done, like how you combine animations and Halo campaign

[@duard8895]

This is beautiful

[@dtjackson1647]

Thanks man.

[@dmeater6610]

Liked this alot guys fantastic job. 10/10

[@archangelshoot9306]

it's amazing

[@rastaR00STER]

my dude that was dope

[@nick7li]

Good video thank you I love halo so much

[@vsnmellow7384]

Good job

[@afmolinam]

man i only can tell one word: AMAZING!

[@Seananigans220]

WOW the covie fleet was correct!!! They had 2 CAS-class assualt carriers, 13 CCS class battle-cruisers. The fleet was called the Fleet of Sacred Consecration. It was led by The High Prophet of Regret onboard the CAS class flagship Solemn Penance. Great Job!!!

[@Halo3flood]

This is really good

[@SuperLiamharris]

love this video

[@aidenbarrett2129]

Nice video it's pretty cool

[@landocalrissian1985]

1 word. AWESOME!

[@Manneerik13373]

wow amazing !!!

[@newkingfj7242]

This is so glorious

[@Erik2372]

People, remember that he is restricted to the capabilities of the CryEnginge 2 sandbox system, what it can't handle he can't put into the animation. It's actually pretty awesome what he was able to squeeze out of it.

[@shadwosky]

very nice job and great animataion

[@001ventura]

this is amazinnnng

[@XamTakorian]

Great choice of music. Transformers 3 OST was perfect.

[@rugaldefrance3575]

Best greatest video battle ever !!!!!

[@thedampiestbadge2836]

This is badass

[@Legocrop75]

best ship battle to date. praise for to you for doing it :)

[@slightofhand1961]

Well done

[@TheRamseybros]

LOVE YOUR CGI WORK HERE BTW!!

[@Jay_Dub1120]

this, was, EPIC :D

[@destructoidbot6426]

Hey nice job this is really cool .

[@santiagomorales2562]

really good

[@Alexgarcia-vp2yf]

6:54 esos cañones de defensa orbital son muy potentes👍👏👏👏

[@acerr40]

It was pretty well done...

[@unitednationsspacecommand6502]

Great work! UNSC.

[@343TheSentient]

United Nations Space Command Thank you Admiral Hood and the UNSC brass. Im glad you still have youtube accounts in 2552! Keep it real!

[@unitednationsspacecommand6502]

@@343TheSentient Thank you so much! I love the UNSC so much Hopefully this grows into something! Pretty much Command focuses with the banished conflict altough we must not forget UEG Citizens too! Have a Nice Day! COMMAND OUT. UNSC.

[@tomgarcia9736]

Keep the awesomeness up !an

[@MrRobertus95]

nice, very worked

[@nuclearsangheilistudios6832]

Great Animation, This how I would depicted The First Moments of The Battle of Earth to be like!