A Halo mod for the critically acclaimed Sins of a Solar Empire, that aims to capture the fast paced intensity of the Halo series.
Covenant Shields
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Archer missiles just aren't going to cut it :/
Looking good.
3/4 chub
Its too bad that the covenant really kicked our a**es because of their ships shielding.
and because of the plasma ^^ it burned threw our ships like a hot knife through buther
the mac guns tore ships in two when the shields failed.
Molten knife through warm ice cream =P
it sees like its two close to the ship like in the books it said there was a gap between the ship and the shield, ie. when then spartan 2 invaded the covenant ship for the firs time
They could have shields, take some destroyed covenant ships and reverse engineer the remains thus providing them with a shield prototype(not as potent as the covenant of course).
Or use the "bubble shield" technology from the halo series, activating it to counter some of the covenant damage.
This is my opinion of course.
the UNSC was able to develop shields due to the Spartans capturing Jackal shields, however it was too late to implement them onto ships. By that time the covenant were already attacking Earth
The UNSC could never capture a covenant ship.
They either blew themselves up or the damage the UNSC had to do to them was to stop them left the ships destroyed.
So I hear the UNSC didn't capture any covie ship tech huh?
*cough*UNSC Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice*cough*
Suuuuure....
The UNSC had enough time/money to design shields for Spartan armor and Saber fighters. It must have just been too expensive to mount shields on capital ships.
they didn't have the time/money for shields, they reverse engineered the shields from a jackal and then basically copied the design and tweaked it here and there. read above
"Reverse engineering" just means that you're copying the existing technology. You still have to BUILD a copy of the thing yourself. The UNSC didn't just slap a bunch of Jackal shields on the Master Chief, they made an improved version. That requires exotic (and likely very expensive)components. Hence the scarcity of shields in the UNSC.
it was also elite shielding they we supposed to capture any covenant tec they could scavenge
well actually the Spartans (well master chief) and Ghost where the only UNSC military personnel to ever have the reversed engineered shields... Although now that i think about it there was one UNSC ship that had a shield and cloaking device
yes and that one ship was in Halo Legends. and it looked like a ship slapped onto an asteroid by my opinion.
and btw, how much SHIELDING and HULL points does the Covenant Assault Carrier, or CAC, for short, have exactly? you haven't told us how much the CAC has yet.
or another possibility is that they could build a generator or what ever large enough to put on a capital ship to cover it entirely.
The UNSC initially reverse enginered jackal and Elite shielding for the Mjolnir V armour, but on the Mjolnir VI it didn't have nay covenant tech in it, it was all human built (my memory of the books/games isn't perfect but i think it's like that)
My personal idea as to why no UNSC ships had shielding was becuase to shield something 1190 meters long (marathon cruiser) would require an inordinant amount of power, simply too much for UNSC ship mounted reactors to produce whilst maintaing the huge elctromagnetic field required for the MAC's let alone the systems to maintain the AI, targeting navigation computers... Life support.
Covenant technology is, obviously, way more advanced so the power issue isn't so bad for them... but they too are limited by finite power production, for instance their Energy Projectors on CCS cruisers can't be fired at the same time as the plasma weaponry (in the books anyway) they just can't make enough power.
its probably to much to ask for the bubble shield like affect they had in the deliver hope trailer? I mean I really don't expect that thats possible with sins graphics but i mean a guy can dream a guy can dream :D
i belive i just shat my self
Pain in 3...2...1...