Battle of Earth | Halo

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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* "

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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?”

[@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.

[@Invai62]

seeing that footage in the beginning gave me enormous chills

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@skau-yeong9191]

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

[@MasouShizuka]

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

[@operatorjuno5348]

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

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

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

[@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.

[@haloGod268]

The music coupled with how the battle went filled me with pride and happiness. Expertly done

[@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!"

[@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

[@rolfgrell4783]

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

[@jannegrey]

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

[@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.

[@pugsy7658]

honestly I just love high command episodes so much Please make more of these

[@mauricocruz7405]

5:35 master chief was like “no u”

[@DarkNova50]

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

[@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

[@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

[@sookendestroy1]

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

[@InterstellarKev]

You really put the dread of this battle in perspective. Humanity really did come close to the brink of destruction.

[@warrenbintoro5441]

I’m happy you guys involved the master chief in this video and Put him responsible for ending the war and saving the earth

[@zach4832]

Why did this give me chills?

[@Halcyon_games]

I think it gave all of us Halo fans chills

[@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.

[@The105ODST]

I am thankful for the video today.

[@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

[@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?

[@Tarotb]

Thank you for this. I never really thought about how, while you're fighting through Delta Halo, Earth is in what would litterally have been its final days if not what happens afterwards; it underlines how great a threat the flood is that the extinction of humanity is nothing more than a side show against what happens on High Charity

[@kb9oak749]

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

[@zeeblock22]

Love the use of home world symbology for the fleet, real flashbacks

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@shirleytwsw]

One of the best stories ever told in a video game

[@badhoplite7299]

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

[@bryanpseno4203]

BadHoplite I'd like to see that

[@holyroller56]

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

[@victorsandoval4792]

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

[@Bhoddisatva]

This is how religions get started.

[@MrLittlefoot]

High Command is quickly becoming my favorite

[@Ganymede1001]

A great game concept would be to play as regular human soldiers on earth while the Covenant invaded earth. More like H3 ODST but different locations around Earth etc

[@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.

[@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 😆

[@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. :,)

[@grimmech4268]

"For us, the storm has passed... the war is over. But let us never forget those who journeyed into the howling dark and did not return. For their decision required courage beyond measure; sacrifice, and unshakable conviction that their fight... our fight, was elsewhere. As we start to rebuild, this hillside will remain barren, a memorial to heroes fallen. They ennobled all of us, and they shall not be forgotten." Happy Thanksgiving templin institute. Here's to more great videos.

[@gavinsmiley9377]

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

[@InhumanBaron]

Happy to see that High Command is here to stay. I'm still hoping to see a battle or conflict from Ace Combat done in this spin-off series!

[@alterelch4707]

Feet first into HELL!!!

[@Halcyon_games]

Hoorah trooper!

[@93kupper]

By far my favourite channel on KZbin

[@sowpmactavish]

Idk why but I was tearing up as I watched this Must be the dramatic music.

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@ukahchiagoziem570]

Wow playing as Seirra 117, I didn't see how desperate the battle was for UNSC and the duration of the battle. Playing with the MC and over the course of Halo 2 and 3, I didn't know it was the same battle I came back to join.

[@AlexanderofThebes]

Hey great ideas for future high command episodes: Battle of Scarif - Rogue One Battle of New York - Avengers Battle of Plennor Fields/Hornberg - Lord of the Ring Black Crusades - Warhammer 40k

[@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025]

*When You Realize The Templin Institute Also Makes Halo*

[@yanivgalmor1747]

They always did

[@nathanberger184]

I feel like people always understate just how massive the battle of earth was. It started with 15 ships led by the prophet of Regret against what was probably what was left of the entire UNSC fleet minus battle group Stalingrad which was away at Onyx. After the destruction of Regrets fleet a massive Brute led fleet showed up which started a month long slogging match both in orbit and on the surface. After a month long slogging match the Propjet of Truth showed up if with what was left of the Covenant fleet after the events of Reach, the battle of installation 04 and the great schism still numbered in the hundreds upon hundreds of Covenant capital class ships which when combined with what was left of the Brute fleet already attacking earth was probably close to 1000 capital class ships. All of this was up against what was left of the combined UNSC fleet plus 300 ODPs. The battle was enormous however under Hoods leadership and with the backing of over 300 OFPs this enormous Covenant fleet, which was probably the largest fleet the humans had ever seen was reduced to less to around 27 ships left. The UNSC was practically wiped out with maybe half a dozen ships remaining. So while it wasnt a victory for the UNSC immediately the immense losses the Covenant took fighting the UNSC in the last months of the war combined with the Great Schism led to the downfall and defeat of the Covenant which allowed the UNSC to rebuild. All of this info can be found on just about all the Halo websites but people only ever mention the opening stage of the battle when Regret showed and then count that as the whole battle whilst forgetting the rest of this enormous campaign.

[@EstebanMataVargas]

The Spartans-caused casualties could even measure in the millions.

[@zama422]

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

[@theandroidartist5897]

I liked this new show, for the next episode, I would like to see either the battle of Reach or how you would describe the battle of Scarif from Rogue 1.

[@TheNightmoose]

I think High Command may be my favorite new series :D

[@aaronhorlick9932]

you guys need to put a dedicated high command playlist together. this stuff is good!

[@samnastasasam622]

I love how much y'all work on these

[@I-02]

Isaac Arthur did an analysis on attacking planets from space. He stated that it should be nigh impossible to achieve total victory so long as the defending force even has a grasp of space. You are fighting an enemy with finite resources and finite ships, while your opponent has virtually unlimited resources and can create units on the fly vastly faster that what you can. In order for the Covenant to win this, they should have needed to outnumber the UNSC defense fleet by an order of magnitude at least. Especially with 300 ODP's that can reportedly one-shot Covenant capital ships.

[@Publicenemy213]

The covenant always massively outclassed the UNSC in tech, look at their first space battle for example. One covenant superdestroyer 1v40ed UNSC ships and destroyed 13 of them before getting killed. www.halopedia.org/Battle_of_Harvest The ODPs can only one shot smaller capital ships, not battlecruisers or assault carriers like were in the first fleet that arrived

[@BigHeadClan]

So. Doseir of master Chief?

[@unknownuser4692]

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

[@generalgrievous2935]

5:38 That is karma at its greatest point!

[@sohphunny4679]

Do the battle of Harvest or Reach next!

[@dwaugh2215]

another brilliant episode! If you wish to add more for high command, I suggest the Battle of Yavin, Geonosis and the Last Great Time War's final battle, Fall of Arcadia maybe check out the Leviathan book series, started reading it and actually good

[@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

[@tombblades]

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

[@gagginz]

This video gave me tears, it jsut so fucking well made

[@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!"

[@honkhonk8009]

4:00 what happened was, prophet of regret found a forerunner artefact detailing more forerunner tech in earth, but the covenenant didnt know earth was humanitys home world. Therefore regret only carried his own fleet to find the forerunner artefact and was actually surprised when he found humans there.