How to Lose Hundreds of Spartans | Arma 3 Halo

Beta Company, consisting of 300 Spartan-3s are dropped onto the surface of Pegasi-Delta to eliminate a Covenant refinery during operation "Torpedo". It is then no surprise that this would turn into one of the greatest loss of Spartans in a single battle to ever occur and somehow Ignis makes it worse.
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[@RubixRaptor]

If it doesn’t become obvious watching this video, this was yet again another excuse for me to relisten to the entire halo soundtrack again c: Also ended up being a rather cinematic operation so hope you don’t mind the slower bits of watching stuff explode!

[@VelkTheLost]

A worthy reason to be sure.

[@forgotten7873]

A worthy listen

[@DragonRider2097]

The halo soundtrack hits hard

[@LugiaMarenic]

Jesus Jay, you died so many times, and I felt all of it. Reminded me of that one impossible mode halo infinite had to offer, but fucking twenty thousand times worse. Great vid btw!

[@LugiaMarenic]

Who died the most though out of everyone in the op?

[@GameTavern2224]

Only Ignis could figure out how to turn having a literal company some of the greatest super soldiers in Sci Fi and basically resorting to just throwing bodies at the enemy. never change, Jay

[@JIMT412]

Ignis pulled an Imperial Guard manouver

[@salvagedude625]

canon compliant operation torpedo

[@GameTavern2224]

@@salvagedude625 someone needs to send a very sternly worded letter to command about the tactics

[@_NutcasE_]

Well Spartan III's depicted in the novel are not even close to Spartan II's(masterchief's generation) nor did they have even the Mjölnir armor, instead they would be wearing SPI armor which is not even remotely close in function and durability. So it's not that surprising that they managed to lose so many spartans.

[@GameTavern2224]

@@_NutcasE_ make a joke and get a lore lesson. Not complaining just it happens more often than you'd think

[@samlund8543]

0:28 That’s a 99.3% casualty rate (298 out of 300 Spartans), and thats somehow not even the worst Spartan-III deployment. These guys can give the Imperium a run for their money…

[@delightfullymischievous9684]

That's what happens when you design a disposable super soldier for suicide missions

[@KillerOrca]

@@delightfullymischievous9684 And when the war against the genocidal aliens that want your ass is going as bad as it is.

[@KillerOrca]

Its the second worst (Prometheus was technically 100% casualties).

[@servermeta]

actually it was probably closer to 290 (or even 280) dead spartans because some were CAT-6's or taken into the HeadHunter program

[@War_is_cool]

In all Fairness, the 99.9 percent causality rates for the imperium ain’t happening with the space marines (except for lamenters)

[@oxytocin2.031]

Spartan recruitment: Spartan IV: "Want to be the best?" Spartan III: "Want to leave the orphanage?" Spartan II: "Want free candy?" Spartan I: "Know what the ladies like?

[@CHRF-55457]

Lol

[@firefox5714]

And yet, the candy made the best Spartans.

[@Captain_Rhodor]

"Pegasi Delta" Me, who has read the books: "So I see we're going for a lore accurate op?"

[@drxtale9446]

Yes, yes we are.

[@mountaindoge141]

I didn’t recognize the name at first, but as soon as I heard “covenant refueling station”, I knew what was about to happen

[@patrickbarnhardt5783]

na 0:28

[@zachm9202]

​@@mountaindoge141 Same here

[@malazanmarine2959]

This is literally the one Halo book I have read lol

[@vibechecker3168]

Considering 297 of the 300 Spartans were KIA (sorry MIA) in this op in the lore, I don’t know what’s worse. That ignis fared worse, or that for Spartan 3 missions, this is considered an unusually good survival rate.

[@florianhohn5671]

They actually fared better, as in the book 298 from 300 sparten IIIs died, only lucy and tom survived.

[@the_corvid97]

It's important to note that Prometheus and Toroedo were outliers, they actually did exceptionally well on other operations.

[@IncarnateSable]

@@the_corvid97 The only thing to consider is that UNSC High Com considered Torpedo a success and an "acceptable operating outcome", meaning those 298 12 yr olds were just "yeah we're good with how that went"

[@gnilbis7859]

@@IncarnateSable I forgot the fact that they're fucking 10-12 year old ​traumatized orphans that were "volunteered"

[@jimmy-breeze]

​@@gnilbis7859halo lore is so insanely fucked compared to most sci fi shit except i guess for like warhammer but thats beyond beyond fucked

[@gruntmasterbroadcast]

Fun fact when parashooting in Arma one is in a constant state of daring the god Clang to bring disaster upon all...

[@chemicalwarfaremann7607]

Clang be praised for the jank

[@roughgalaxy7990]

Hail Clang!

[@striderpup1169]

Why is it called Clang? Because that’s usually what you hear before everything goes to shit?

[@mastercrafter2252]

@@striderpup1169 pretty much. I’m pretty sure he originated from space engineers though. He is a wrathful god

[@CloneCommanderCrater1102]

​@@mastercrafter2252Yeah, Clang started in Space Engineers but somehow managed to also move into Arma.

[@Homicidalbus]

The original spartan 3s were probably my favorite kind of unit from the books. The spi armor was really cool looking, and the fact that they got the same training as the 2s, but were basically mass produced suicide warriors was really disturbing. Thank you for posting this!

[@dovahkiin7253]

They had HARDER training than the 2's, Kurt didn't pull any punches with them

[@dianabarnett6886]

@@dovahkiin7253 That's the tragedy of the Spartan 3's. They're just as good as the 2's, but they were given shittier gear and suicide missions. (With a few exceptions like Noble Team)

[@phoenixpoole7667]

@@dianabarnett6886Even then, the majority of them didn’t see for light of day. Spartan IIs were made for longevity, Spartan IIIs were made to die.

[@Longshot441]

@@phoenixpoole7667 That's sadly what happenes when every option is prefrable to extinction.

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

@@Longshot441 God I love lenord church

[@ApatiteGaming]

As someone who read Ghosts of Onyx at age 8 and had their life irrecoverably changed by it... this was a real treat. A huge thanks to you, Ignis, and the mission makers!

[@MinersLoveGames]

Yeah, that book and First Strike were a real eye-opener for me in middle and high school. The real cost of the war, and how the SPARTAN program was not as clean-cut heroic as I'd thought at first.

[@willlliorca7024]

It was Fall of Reach and Ghost of Onyx for me. Such good books and honestly great sci fi. But honestly if you said you liked any one of those books (prior to most of the 343 run stuff) it’d be valid. They’re all good

[@Ami-vh7sr]

"Goodbye Cypher..." shows how ready Jay was to clip that moment for laughs......poor Cypher ;p

[@theredestshirt9726]

I remember this in the books, it came down 3 kids. One was bleeding out while a girl was basically trying to stabilize him and the shows the last one basically trying to protect em before the feed cuts. Straight up 100% suicide mission.

[@The055004]

Shane and Robert were dragging Jane, but she was already dead. An elite with a plasma rifle killed Robert and Shane tried running to safety, but was cutoff by hunters and a Wraith and the explosion from the wraith shot launched him and he landed face first And the footage was from another Spartan that had died while seconds before them

[@commandercody2980]

​@@The055004 and it was a completely different mission. What they're playing in-game was Operation: TORPEDO. What the comment is talking about was Operation: PROMETHEUS. TORPEDO was Beta company, PROMETHEUS was Alpha company.

[@hatbrox]

5:03 “Dammit Grif you just hit a friendly!” I can recognize that music anywhere.

[@Fellow_Daoist]

Red vs Blue warthog song is awesome. I should play it while driving around irl, might hit some epic jumps, though.

[@n5o413]

Such a huge missed opportunity to have the “mission completed” message say “Spartans Never Die”

[@betelgeuse_99]

They're just missing in action.

[@Fellow_Daoist]

@@betelgeuse_99 two og xbox pfps, nice

[@warbrand2]

Wow Rubix does halo accurately. showing how many spartans would have died.

[@Volsung0]

I think "Hundreds of Spartans" is probably the worse measurement of Ignis losses yet. Other than that frigate that got Blue-on-Blue'd. I think just about the only thing that could surpass it would be "Hundreds of Space Marines."

[@LugiaMarenic]

one word to summarize this entire op: WEGOTTAGETOUTAHERE

[@sirflapfla97]

Hundreds of custodes I would say is worse

[@ZME-957]

@@sirflapfla97istvan system (heresy age) or the vengeful spirit when they all got separated and had to fight their way to Horus. The emperor “drank from the warp” and began to use the custodians like psychic puppets when they started to lag behind. Malcador himself was horrified by that.

[@ZME-957]

Those custodians were burnt to ash within their armor too

[@thedyingmeme6]

​@@ZME-957fun

[@ghostknight3080]

Kurt was such a badass in that book. Keep up the great content Rubix

[@dj11o9er]

Tbf wasn't Kurt a II, not a III...?

[@collecter343]

@@dj11o9er He was, he trained the III's and saw how the majority of them ended up.

[@ghostknight3080]

@@dj11o9er Yeah Kurt was a Spartan II but at the time he was wearing Spartan III armor

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

I read the book. Its a very sad book. Granted Ackerson did not do what Halsey did (kidnap over 100 6 and 7 year old kids)... But still, orphans of the same age. At least John and the other SPARTAN II's were husbanded for missions that they'd at least come back from due to the nature of their being limited in number... Kurt, Mendez and Ackerson knew these kids would most likely not survive their first mission. Like this one. This was Beta's first, and only, real mission as a company, excluding prior ops (including that of Cartwheel). Out of the 300 SPARTAN III's sent in, Tom and Lucy were the only survivors, rendering a 99% casualty rate of the mission, and essentially rendering Beta Company "Combat Ineffective". But unlike Ackerson, Kurt and Mendez were fighting to keep these boys and girls alive. Whereas Ackerson, like ONI and the UNSC, were under the tactical and strategic mood that their sacrifice, though horrid, achieved greater significant importance upon completion of their mission (such as this, Operation Torpedo). Ironically enough, some of the SIII's we know, including Kat, were produced directly from Onyx and the SIII program under Ackerson. Even Noble 6, who was also sidelined by Kurt for specialized duties.

[@slate8409]

Ackerson was worse than Halsey ever was. ONI had to gaslight her into joining the program in the first place through presenting her with the Carver findings, and even after being brought in she had reservations about what they were doing. Only reason she didn't quit was because the alternatives were worse - both the escalation of the Insurrection and knowing that someone like Ackerson who cared nothing for the IIs would take over the program in her place. Even after the II project was technically closed and ended Halsey spent literal decades resurrecting and fixing the children who died or were crippled through failed augmentations - kids who ONI had written off as "acceptable losses", much like the IIIs. Halsey's a monster to be sure but not one of her own making, and a LOT of the blame she gets belongs at the feet of Parangosky and others like her within ONI's leadership. Problem is that certain authors who will not be named that have a habit of injecting personal politics into their books decided Halsey was going to be their villain and 343 Industries ran with it for years despite that directly contradicting other novels considered to be foundational lore for the entire expanded universe. Reading the older books generally does a lot to set the record straight on that.

[@TheRisingSun56]

@@slate8409 The Original Spartan II program has some of the worst justifications for coming into existence, Carver Findings or not (in-universe the Carver Findings are some of the most threadbare doomer posting to ever exist and Halsey's the dumbest genius ever to buy into it) R/HaloStory has a couple of break downs about why the II program was the luckiest shot in the dark ever and had it been used on the insurrection as planned and gotten out like Hunt the Truth postulates, the UEG would not have survived it (and by rights should not have, this is a government that signed off of the kidnapping of the next generations of greats from the outer colonies and turned them into the ultimate kill squad to not actually solve the problem they were created to solve, the II's don't really help solve the issues of the insurrection.) The fact that the Covenant show up and justify the II program is the greatest luck out that ONI ever got in reasons for crimes against humanity. The III program doesn't have this problem at least immediately post-war, you can't over estimate how badly the UNSC was losing by the time Ackerson sells his soul to get his program started, as unlike the II program (roughly a 1 million+ dead at time of initiation) the III's have seen dozens of planets lost and nearly a billion+ dead with every method used to just cause a speed bump costing millions of military losses and entire battlegroups reduced to nothing but floating hulks, the UNSC is already trading lives for time in the most extreme ways possible and the III's are approved under the very real threat of extinction, using volunteers that have already lost everything and were likely to lose more (unlike the vapid specter of extinction raised by the Carver Findings, which by this point are absolute bullshit due to the external factors of an alien invasion.) Ackerson's decent is also pretty well covered in HaloStory, from a Col on the frontlines of the early years of the war all the way until his death at the very close of it. He sells his soul and his morals to try and buy humanity a chance and I respect him far far more than Halsey because as we get more looks into early war Halsey, we see more and more of her I'm smarter than you and I know it approach to ONI and military operations restrict the only useful asset she'd created by that point, restricting Spartan II deployments from extreme-risk and extreme-rewards to cake-walks and set requirements before deployment akin to a mother hen (which she is at that point, even more so then to her own daughter Miranda.) Halsey was a shitty mother and feeling guilty about it without doing anything about her own daughter and baby-daddy Keyes (Halsey maintains her arrogance right up until Red Flag is canceled and Reach falls) then proceeding to get millions killed indirectly when she got Battlegroup Omnicron slaughtered over Onyx (Lord Hood trusts her when she claims war winning technology's but she knows that Onyx is a shield world, it's not clarified whether she thinks she can come up with something in the month Earth has left or if she wanted convince the Battlegroup to abandon the fight but either way it damns her) when she knows her own daughter is still in the fight. She's a shitty person in general when she advocated retreating from the Outer Colonies to fortress worlds and writing off billions of people for the promise of weapons she never delivers in canon, think about that she SAYs she can provide the tools to fight the Covenant and the only thing she creates is an armor and shielding system that doesn't actually solve the problem of Covenant Space Dominance. Sgt Johnson scoffs at her and Adm Cole ignores her at that point because who does that, who writes off billions on a CHANCE that you by your lonesome can actually solve the problem and spoiler she doesn't. TLDR: The III program actually had justifications unlike the II's and Halsey regardless of if you use old or new canon is a callous bitch who grew morals late in the game and only for the children she ripped away from their families after realizing she could not in-fact live up to her own hype and was wrong anyways.

[@slate8409]

@@TheRisingSun56 So we’re just going to gloss over Ackerson putting rivals and UNSC forces he didn’t like in harm’s way for purely petty and personal reasons? Or his straight up bigotry involving the IIs, who Hood threatened him with disciplinary action over? My man, I don’t care what Reddit has to say on the subject. I own all the wartime era books and I can definitively tell you your timeline is off. Halsey was conflicted from day one, she didn’t develop her conscience “late” if you go off her journal and the Eric Nylund books that paved the way for the entire EU. Did she make some bad calls? Yes. But that pales in comparison to Ackerson straight up trying to get people he doesn’t like killed solely so he can steal their funding… or worse, purely for vindictive reasons as the III program was in full swing by 2552. Worst that would happen with Halsey is she would avoid you. If Ackerson decided you were on his shit list you could expect live artillery rounds in your next training “exercise”, the kind of bullshit that could get you courtmartialed and tried for treason if uncovered.

[@TheRisingSun56]

@@slate8409 I'm not defending Ackerson as by the time we meet him in Fall of Reach he's already began his slide but his III program justifications are far and away better than the II's if we're going to call using child soldiers justified (the war is going bad and is continuing to get worse by the day the Army of which Ackerson is the only member we had seen up to that point, would know on an institutional level) Halsey on the other by the time of Ghosts has regrown her conscious in the worst possible way sabotaging First Strike by pulling Kelly off the line, tricking Lord Hood into a Spartan and Battlegroup deployment during Earths last stand knowing that her daughter is still fighting. Like there are mistakes but nearly getting everyone in Sol killed and definitely getting everyone in Battlegroup Omnicron/Stalingrad killed is a hard sell using a conscious she finally acts on(I prefer grown because she never uses it prior to this aside from mother henning) basically right after Red Flag fails and First Strike is ramping up per the First Strike Novel, just feels like callous and writing off everyone else outside of her circle including her own family (Miranda is still fighting by First Strike and the beginning of Halo 2.) So yeah, even using the novels prior to Halo: Reach I'm incredibly cold on Halsey and the Spartan II program, even if the II's themselves were the greatest godsend the UNSC could have asked for (also incredibly badass in every depiction), for the wrong reasons.

[@swatboy763]

"Combat inefective" is such an understatement

[@Tykoangelo]

Its like watching the goodwill version of the USMC

[@codexstudios]

Time to experience a RubixRaptor masterpiece on a treadmill for the first time

[@roflchiefmcjoflchief1791]

Based. Burn those cals homie, get them bigass calf muscles

[@mustangdrew4_The_Spartan]

Man getting them gains and boosting his serotonin. Keep it up!

[@khezoboi]

This was honestly the most cinematic mission I've seen everything was perfect.

[@Orion678]

Ooh, I wonder if your crew might ever do a Arma mission based on Titanfall. I think everyone would enjoy it. Either on the side of the IMC or Militia it's going to be a fucking blast! (And knowing this group I wouldn't be surprised if it was literally)

[@RubixRaptor]

It's somewhere on the list, just need mods to flesh out a bit more

[@k_balu-8104]

@@RubixRaptor How about a bit more Helldivers, given Helldivers 2 is coming in February, it would be time for some LIBER-TEA and Managed Democracy!

[@vibechecker3168]

The Spartan 3 experience: you and your fellow war traumatised sociopaths and psychopaths and war criminal in training child soldiers will be shot at the covenant on a suicide mission, as the Spartan equivalent of a disposable launcher. Your equipment is worse, and the only difference between missions is if you die with a partner, or die on masse. At least the Spartan 2s get to die in a heroic way.

[@dysonfrelix2783]

It shows the difference between the two programs creators. Halsey knows what she did was horriffic, but if Einstein created the nuclear bomb, is anybody smart enough to arguargue. Ackerson did everything outta spite. Taking no accountability for his role, other then it's successes of course.

[@NerzJansch2]

Missed chance to have a second mission around evacing the last two survivors, mute momma and john 2/3rds. But still great kudos for Onyx getting some of the love it deserves

[@lebozo869]

I absolutely love the fact this is based off of Ghosts of Onyx, the Spartan 3's truly were deserving of their title o7

[@Megalordsalmon]

You mean to tell me that you recreated a battle from my favorite Halo book as my favorite generation of Spartans? Sold.

[@tylerruss2458]

“Five years. Five long years. That's how long it took us to get Harvest back.” Words sketched into my mind which was followed by the best music ever.

[@Southern_Crusader]

The absolute desperation and fear in your voices when the *SURVIVE* poped up was awesome!

[@matejsvrcek273]

Now I understand how Lucy was so traumatised in the books if she had to go through all of... this 😂

[@mikedicewrites]

Absolutely love it any time the Spartan IIIs get screen time, great vid J.

[@iTzHoku]

6:47 Raptor has the actual Spartan death sound from MP 😂

[@MB-dn1fx]

“… somehow lose more Spartans then they did in the book” Jay you know EXACTLY how you lost more than in the book.

[@RubixRaptor]

Yea I know :(

[@double1777]

This is one of my favorite battles in all of Halo. It’s awesome to see it realized, even in a goofy ass way lol

[@H010CR0N]

I saw Cypher's video and was going "Isn't this from Ghosts of Onyx?" I knew it! Great story. And a definite good scenario for Ignis to play. In canon only 2 Spartans survive.

[@OzyWazza]

Can I just say that the person flying the fighter at 2:02 did one of the smoothest strafe runs I've seen in a goodly while; you fine folk are *TALENTED*

[@grimmech4268]

Extremely fun first op! Really glad to be part of it. and i''m not apologizing for 6:46. Its not my fault for incurring the wrath of the aa turret on that location cypher told me to shoot it and that it would be fine.

[@blacktuesday7427]

RIP to all the Spartan IIIs. SPI armor is pretty cool tho.

[@PremedComrade-25]

I thought so too the cloaking on it was neat, until I saw how much the shields fail and how thin the plating is compared to the Mjolnir armor in the books. I still feel like if Kurt took his old Spartan II armor over the SPI in the book he might've actually been able to tank the fatal hit and go toe to toe with the hunter that absolutely messed up his solar plexus when it smashed him with it's shield. The whole instance with one of the Blue team member Spartan's tackling it off the hilltop and fighting it hand to hand to save him after that might've been prevented if he did.

[@blacktuesday7427]

@@PremedComrade-25 Cloaking was definitely neat. I need to re-read Ghosts of Onyx, that book was awesome

[@PhoenixOfArcadia]

@@PremedComrade-25 "until I saw how much the shields fail" Failed so much it's almost as if the SPI didn't have shields. Oh wait, that's right, it didn't.

[@PremedComrade-25]

@@PhoenixOfArcadia My bad after the vid I decided to bask in nostalgia again with the book and after re-reading that section of the book that I hadn't read since middle school I misunderstood the line regarding the armor cracking for it's shields breaking not understanding it had ballistic armoring underlays to it. I coulda swore though I remember seeing a halo waypoint animated comic way back back with two Spartan III's where their SPI armor had shields though so I just assumed they all did after that.

[@mekboy7403]

@@PremedComrade-25 Those two were headhunters and were testing an experimental version of SPI. It might be exclusive to Headhunters or was just abandoned since Mjolnir was becoming cheaper.

[@MinersLoveGames]

Ghosts Of Onyx is a *rough* story. Pegasi Delta was a massacre. Whereas the SPARTAN-II's were made to be durable, III's were made to be expendable. I call them "Shake And Bake" Spartans entirely because of the book.

[@noahvcat9855]

Spartan 3s with their SPI Armor are so underrated in my opinion, despite what many people think the majority of Spartan 3s used Semi-Powered Infiltration Armor (SPI Armor) which is not as durable or as advanced as the Mjolnir Armor system that Spartan 2s had but SPI Armor was considered to be at least above average compared to most other armor systems that most UNSC soldiers had. Spartan 3s like seen in Noble Team in Halo Reach are one of the few Spartan 3s that got to use a proper Mjolnir Armor but majority of S3 used SPI

[@dianabarnett6886]

Basically Gucci ODST armor with active camo capabilities.

[@noahvcat9855]

@@dianabarnett6886 pretty much yeah but also with SPI armor a regular non-augmented non-supersoldier normie person use also use the armor too

[@jasonslomski6656]

If i remember correctly, the Spartan III's were designed to be expendable. They didn't have energy shields but had a form of active camo. One of their augmentations would override their sensibilities in favor of heightened aggression. So instead of repositioning or retreating as a spartan II would they may elect to charge or hold their ground. Really great book highly recommend a read if anyone hasn't.

[@the_corvid97]

That augmentation you're talking about is just Gamma Company.

[@phantom117b4]

The augment started with Gamma Company and was planned for Delta Company, but Oynx was attacked by Covenant and Sentinals before the new "recruits" for Delta arrived

[@michaelman957]

"From the Novel 'Ghosts of Onyx.'" Brother, get the caskets. All of thr caskets.

[@immortalwarrior2695]

The fact that this is so on point is pretty much hilarious

[@solverbrick8894]

From the second I read the thumbnail, I knew /exactly/ what mission they were doing. Certainly didn't disappoint.

[@jdquairoli]

Excited to see you guys run a custom forge halo infinite campaign the level of RP and Shenanigans would be unparalleled

[@reidzalewski4563]

I think this is the first time I've seen an op that didn't end with everyone turning on each-other in the end screen... Incredible!

[@elibradford5596]

Honestly, that thing where they drive the warthog into the turret to blow it up since they didnt have any explosives left is probably the most spartan thing to do in that situation

[@HeroSwe]

This mission was awesome. Non-stop action across the entire front for all squads. Really good job Scorch.

[@The_ONIBushido]

I personally love this one the most as this hits a special cord with me. Even though its a cruel mission overall, I've always loved this book. Amazing video as always Raptor!

[@AresN7]

That looked like a real pitched battle. Great job! That looked like tons of fun.

[@Nanok1d]

I love the atmosphere of these halo arma events!

[@NoBody-qs7op]

There are canonically two survivors of this mission.

[@CanadianWolverine]

If Spartans had such a "fun" time with that, what chance do the Marines have?

[@dianabarnett6886]

None, which is why a whole company of Spartans were sacrificed to buy humanity time.

[@Wasattsi]

@@dianabarnett6886300 Spartans is two companies. A company (irl at least) is ≈ 150 men with five companies in a battalion.

[@thethinmint5282]

@@Wasattsi In this case it was a 300 man company

[@Wasattsi]

@@thethinmint5282 Ah, so fictional BS. My company had 96 people in it lmao

[@einsteincat5298]

@@Wasattsi Different militaries through different times have different organisational numbers.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Operation Torpedo. Aka, the average deployment of Ignis Corps to any ground campaign.

[@HuntedHydraGaming]

Absolutely beautiful Jay, another fucking great video!! Also the moment Cypher said he knew the music it hit me so fucking hard

[@thelonebandana1062]

Great work using the Halo soundtrack throughout the video! I'm especially happy that you used the Spirit of Fire, one of my favorite halo themes.

[@RubixRaptor]

I accidentally ran into spirit of fire while I was searching for another song and was like "Oh that works"

[@Muninn_Crow]

I had always wanted to see that battle come to life. Thanks for doing so. It looks so much more vicious than I had ever imagined. :)

[@salvagedude625]

Love the halo content. Hits every time

[@jordaanstanley6019]

Bro im so happy with this, just finished listening to the recent halo stories/books and now this what a morning ahahah

[@jogalen856]

Remember. Spartans never die, they just get conscripted too early. Probs pulled back home by the ear from their moms.

[@Tyrgalon]

This was a very cinematic/atmospheric video indeed, enjoyed it a lot :) You can never go wrong with Halo music

[@randomdude2386]

One of my fav ops to watch! Love ur content!

[@mr.replicate4989]

I recently got into Arma, and within 1 hour my leman russ decided it wanted to go to space. 10/10 Game

[@mitchdadude2341]

From the ones I've seen This is one of the most cinematic ops Ignis has done

[@Scorch052]

Best part of Ignis is getting to abuse the members while simultaneously recreating my favorite (mostly) lore-accurate battles in the Halo books.

[@williamwemmer]

You also gotta think those were augmented 12 year old orphan super soldiers who were out for revenge, and out of those 300 only 2 survived.

[@BurninSnowMan]

This looks amazing!

[@texnik_240]

This is the brightest and most beautiful mission in the Halo universe that I have ever seen

[@SquattingxBear]

This was so sick, hope to see more Hal focused content on the channel!

[@joaoantoniofloriano949]

This was one of the best for sure, very cinematic

[@stiglapoint5672]

Ooo lore battle I love those Ghosts of Onyx was a great read and Operation Torpedo was hectic

[@WretchedxGhost]

You didn't take it super serious and have a nice laugh mate. New subscriber unlocked!

[@tycospartan117]

The moment that one guy tempted fate at 7:36 , I immediately knew a freaking Super Carrier was about to say "Bet"

[@maxlen3461]

That was so epic i loved it as always !

[@WTFisTingispingis]

So the canon version of this mission had only two survivors. Out of like three hundred dudes. Beta Company got _absolutely stomped._

[@bakamaru3867]

Always love the Friday video from Jay and Ignis.

[@orion9026]

This was an amazing video all the way through

[@qwaku4907]

Ignis bout to raid the local kindergarten to replenish their fallen spartans after this

[@dominiczuber7512]

I freaking love your videos they always make me laugh and make my day brighter

[@Theoneuknow7]

Awesome video, remember reading that book many moons ago.

[@vrcommandoata5403]

That moment when the usual Ignis shenanigans result in canon compliance.

[@novemberdawn8145]

Fuccckkk, when "Spirit of Fire" kicked in near the end, pure goosebumps.

[@jamesdulak3108]

This battle from Ghosts of Onyx has always been the coolest thing in Halo lore to me so it was so awesome seeing it represented in this, even if it was much goofier than the way it was depicted in the book haha. I cried when that Grizzly got blasted.

[@ruin_3r8873]

Thank you RubixRaptor for making my nightshifts bearable

[@storm6733]

i glance at your stufff every once in a while, but that's probably the first video i watched the whole thing and it was a blast man. more SIII ops please!

[@Teddy-rv8iw]

Probably the best arma vid yet

[@dochudson7284]

Every bit of this video is 100% better than the halo tv show. Thank you raptor for providing us with a visual from the books.

[@Heidao623]

I know the kids sent on these missions were like throwing babies into a machine till it breaks, but damn was SPI Armor a cool concept on how to outfit disposable pseudo spartans on a budget.

[@cadet6091]

We need to get you to 400k before the end of the year. You deserve it.

[@flamesnipr1213]

I love the use of TF2 death screams

[@Baldwin-iv445]

Also this is probably the most epic battle I've seen you guys do.

[@ingridmace2530]

This one hella of a good, entertaining and cinematic video to watch while lunching =)

[@IngloriusBasterd]

Love your vids, always a fun time

[@Kammioo]

The madness never stops

[@johnaxios6335]

1:35 Jay: "Funny if that turned around right now" Big old gun: " I think I heard something over there"

[@teagan5494]

(Haven’t finished videos): already, the thing I love about your videos and this mod, is that you can actually see the enemy, and the horrifying 9ft tall monsters coming to crush your calf’s, I just wanted to say this….

[@TheVampyr]

Yooo! i read Ghosts of Onyx when I was in High School years ago. Thanks for the nostalgia Jay!

[@JUNIsLuke]

Great use of music dude!

[@TimOvideos]

This was so freaking cool.

[@jacobmatsonmatson1651]

Didn’t want this video to end

[@MothFable]

Man I was not expecting this but it’s extremely in character for ignis

[@germfreepizzawi1839]

Love that book!