Our representation of Halo's iconic space combat in the Homeworld 2 engine, which puts the player in command of some of the most powerful weapons fielded by the UNSC and Covenant and to provide a balanced and competitive experience.
Despite being larger and heavier than other cruisers, the Hercules is in no way combat effecient.
Brought back from a period of colonisation, the Hercules wasn't built with survivability or offensive power in mind, simply the ability to carry security forces and ground support weapons to at-risk colonies, they saw little use before they were quickly replaced by smaller more effecient warships.
Although archer pods and a MAC had never graced the Hercules class before, recent demands in the war against the Covenant have rapidly depleted cruiser numbers in the UNSC, the decision to refit the remainder of the surviving Hercules class was made and the fleet quickly became content with their new cruisers.
However, despite the Hercule's intimidating size, it became clear all it was actually good for was carrying a large ammount of Archers and MAC to bolster the weapons in a fleet, the out-dated design being unable to take the strain of rapid manuevering, and the large compartments designed to carry troops and equipment becoming fodder to Plasma weaponry.
Although there have been multiple calls to return the Hercules to the scrap yard, the UNSC simply cannot afford to scrap an entire line of cruisers given the Covenant threat.
Awesome
So how long is it?
Is it longer than a marathon?
Yes it's larger than the Marathon, you'll see just how big it is in our next scale chart.
Yay!
New scale chart on the way!:D
Will there be an covenant scale chart?
Mhmm. Along with Covenant vs UNSC scale charts too.
I'm confused....does this cruiser have ANY advantages over the Marathon?
No, it's not meant to. The purpose of the Hercules is to serve as the working man's cruiser, in hopes of reaching better more advanced cruisers later. Visit our forums, someone asked similar questions in a thread that got answered, it'll clear alot of things up.
So this cruiser is the tier before the marathon and others
Very nice, I like the tubes in the back and the sled thing in the front
I'll probably never USE one though if they suck so much
Well you'll likely have to. It's going to be the first cruiser you'll have access to, and we're going to try elongate the length of the game in terms of fleet development, meaning you're going to suffer without larger ships midway through the game.
awesome makes plenty sense
And on a secondary note, they aren't ski's, they're meant to be a planet-facing sensor dish, seeing as older cruisers such as the halcyon appear to have very large flat sensor dishes rather than the marathon's much smaller "arm" style sensors. It was basicly just a last minute thing added cause the outline of the ship looked pretty plane.
the dishes look a bit boring
I really like the look of this one.
I LOVE THIS!! Especially the uncovered engine tubes near the back and the unconventional front design, it gives a nice change from the monotonous design of other UNSC ships