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[MasterOfShips]

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Could we see a scaled up version of the Lich from Halo 4? Here's some info about it for those who don't remember.

"The Covenant's largest airborne deployment platform, the Lich boasts heavy armament and is capable of mass deployments of up to forty soldiers. Because of this, UNSC encounters with Liches have almost always resulted in total destruction of the UNSC ground forces, resulting in a lack of available information on the craft.^[1] Like smaller Covenant dropships, the Lich is spaceworthy. It is also capable of traveling through slipspace, though presumably it cannot do so under its own power."

The Lich's abilities:

"The Covenant remnant deployed multiple Liches during their initial foray on the Forerunner shield world Requiem in 2557. After theUNSC Infinity's Marine and SPARTAN complement disabled an array of Forerunner particle cannons, they were attacked by a Lich, which was then noted as being unidentified.^[3] The "Lich" moniker may have been applied after this attack.^{[note 1]} The deployment platform quickly disabled a Mammoth's Magnetic Accelerator Cannon and dropped off troops. Spartan John-117 and a team of SPARTAN-IVs boarded the craft and destroyed it."

I think it'd make a great support ship with it's ability to disable enemy weapons. Although I imagine it'd have to come with the Rebellion release, due to it being deployed after the war (like the Infinity). Again, the Lich is not quite the size of a frigate, so it may have to be scaled up in size as well.

Source: http://www.halopedia...ort/Ultra_Heavy

[m468]

Don't the corvettes in Rebellion have abilities like that? Of coarse whether or not the developers choose use a Lich in that manner would be their choice.

[CanadaMan7]

Don't the corvettes in Rebellion have abilities like that?

I think it's a pretty natural fit.

[Moo Cow Banshee]

I do agree that it should be added, it just looks completely retarded in campaign though..

[Wikia]

I do agree that it should be added, it just looks completely retarded in campaign though..

Not really, it's a rather effective replacement for the Scarab, the only way to kill it is through the stupidity of the driver instead of the ATTACK ITS WEAK POINTS FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE game mechanic back in Halo 3.

[Defender0]

Not really, it's a rather effective replacement for the Scarab, the only way to kill it is through the stupidity of the driver instead of the ATTACK ITS WEAK POINTS FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE game mechanic back in Halo 3.

The chaingun on a warthog could destroy the scarab in halo 3 if you got the angle right...

[MasterOfShips]

The chaingun on a warthog could destroy the scarab in halo 3 if you got the angle right...

God I miss the scarab. I may have to try that now.

[Defender0]

God I miss the scarab. I may have to try that now.

Put a marine on the turret when you try that, its way easier when you are the driver, since the marines aim for the weak point

[Zandax]

You can also snipe it but it can take awhile.

[MasterOfShips]

Put a marine on the turret when you try that, its way easier when you are the driver, since the marines aim for the weak point

Yeah, whenever I let the AI drive they'd always drive me off a cliff.

[Defender0]

You can also snipe it but it can take awhile.

If you can aim it right, this tactic works if you are using the rocket launcher. The sniper rifle might be a little harder due to the amount of scope magnification that you might twitch and be off target by an in-game inch, which costs you either a shot, or wastes time reaiming

[Demosthenes]

So is this happening?

[m468]

We don't have a role at the moment for it. The combat happens far to fast in the mod to have a ship that fits the kind of role that the Lich would fill if we were to put it in the mod as a ship.

[D4RKST0RM99]

It's a nice idea though a reshuffle of the shipyard's build options might not be needed if you add the Lich the same way the Strident will be added, would be nice if the Covenant Titan had its own deplyable ships class. Also how about a heavy Lich class and just build onto the model instead of upscaing, it is after all only 102.8 metres in length so it could also be used in orbital bombardment similar to how we now see the pelican.

Come to think of it, you could bring back the mako class and only deployable from the UNSC Supercarrier. This can be used later for the Forerunner as in the books you would see some of their cruisers launch from their Cap ships.

[Unikraken]

I would be interested in seeing this eventually, but we're at a bottleneck with our texturing at the moment. We'll have to see how things progress at the beginning of the new year.

[Centurian128]

Is it possible for strikecraft in sins to cast debuffs instead or as well as just attacking?  If that's the case these could be used in groups of one or two to solve the missing Covenant bomber issue, since it is a bit small to be a ship class of it's own.  Unless that issue has been handled already?

[Unikraken]

They'd be corvettes.

[Centurian128]

Just offering up the idea for possible debate, thought it was interesting.  Appoligies I should have realized it had already been decided.

[Fleet Admiral agigabyte]

The one thing I hate about the lich was how the beam looked so cartoony in the part where it disables the mammoth.

[Cole Protocol]

The one thing I hate about the lich was how the beam looked so cartoony in the part where it disables the mammoth.

That aside, it would make a excellent SotP corvette. Since the only cannon one is the size of a halcyon.