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[spartan3227mike]

So if I'm reading the wikia properly Lord Hood was able to fend off thousands of covenant ships to where there were only 45 left is there anywhere in the halo books saying to how big the covenant fleet really was?

[SiRD31M0S]

I don't think we ever got any hard numbers, but the size of their fleet was drastically reduced by the Great Schism. Regardless, we can assume Hood's defense eliminated a huge number; the fleet that destroyed Reach lost something like 2/3rds of its ~600 ship invasion force before the defenders were smashed, and Earth was considerably better defended.

[Cole Protocol]

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And basically S F I R hit it right on the nail. Truth took a crap ton of casualties due to the UNSC's generous SMAC spam. Even so, Covenant ship superiority was still able to overwhelm Earths defenses despite Hood's fantastic strategy and entrenchment. In any case, by the end of the Battle of Earth, truth had at least 30 ships remaining, if you look in Halo 3.

[spartan3227mike]

Well the reason I asked is that I like to recreate some of the big battles using the dev and thanks to Uni I was able to make it to where I get to see every missle being sent the thing Is I'm having trouble recording it will crash every time I try to record any one know how to fix this

[Crisiss]

Truth took a crap ton of casualties due to the UNSC's generous SMAC spam

"Fucking faggots, HEY HUMANS STOP SPAMMING NOOBS AND COME FIGHT ME PUSSIES."

[cagywhiterino]

lol the thing is the covenant still ended up fucking up the defence fleet with around 300 ODPs, like shit man the covies should have really thought their stuff through

[Lord Stark]

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And basically S F I R hit it right on the nail. Truth took a crap ton of casualties due to the UNSC's generous SMAC spam. Even so, Covenant ship superiority was still able to overwhelm Earths defenses despite Hood's fantastic strategy and entrenchment. In any case, by the end of the Battle of Earth, truth had at least 30 ships remaining, if you look in Halo 3.

Are the Covenant only in Africa? I forget. I could have sworn on the world map at Crow's Nest you can see Covenant Fleet positions all across the globe.

[SiRD31M0S]

Are the Covenant only in Africa? I forget. I could have sworn on the world map at Crow's Nest you can see Covenant Fleet positions all across the globe.

The battle took place across the planet, but since the portal to the Ark was in East Africa, that was the focus of the Covenant's attention and force deployment.

[JasonAHawkins]

I recall reading in one of the books that there were brutes in Cuba or Mexico taking nukes up a mag lift to orbit.

[Riftis]

I recall reading in one of the books that there were brutes in Cuba or Mexico taking nukes up a mag lift to orbit.

Yeah, that's from Ghosts of Onyx, about two thirds of the way through, the brutes were taking the nukes from Havana to help with excavation of the portal of Voi. If I recall correctly I believe that is the only mention of the wider surface battle outside of Africa.

[Sev]

There was a comic series that showed the Covenant's invasion of Ohio, with Colonel Ackerson's brother in it.

The Encyclopedia also references that Antarctic (amongst other places) was being excavated for a suspected forerunner artifact, but was stopped by blue team.

[Riftis]

Good call Sev! I completely forgot about Halo: Uprising.

 

 

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[Lord Stark]

Australia also was attacked due to the presence of FLEETCOM, in fact I'm pretty sure Sydney was devastated. +there were "A few billion casualties" not counting those evacuated.