UNSC Naval Tactics Explained | Halo Lore

On today's Halo Lore video, we breakdown the UNSC's naval tactics through the Human-Covenant War and beyond!

From the Keyes Loop, to Mac Cannons, to the UNSC Infinity, we'll cover it all on today's #halo video!
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[thestarwarsstop]

"When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-schmancy tanks. We had sticks! TWO sticks and a rock for a whole platoon... and we had to share the rock!"

[ThefinalWarrior-rilt]

That scene of the Infinity crashing through a Covenant ship never gets old.

[MrBigCookieCrumble]

"They say the lord works in mysterious ways, but not today! This right here is 66 tons of straight up, HE spitting DI-VINE intervention! If God is love, then you can call me cupid."

[tomdevries]

Halo needs more space combat scenes... I loved the cinematic in 4's spartan ops

[autumngottlieb]

"Listen to me, Covenant. I am Vice Admiral Preston J. Cole commanding the human flagship, Everest. You claim to be the holy and glorious inheritors of the universe? I spit on your so-called holiness. You dare judge us unfit? After I have personally sent more than three hundred of your vainglorious ships to hell? After kicking your collective butts off Harvest - not once - but twice? From where I sit, we are the worthy inheritors. You think otherwise, you can come try to prove me wrong."

-UNSC Vice Admiral Preston Cole, At the Battle of Psi Serpentis.

[ThatOneGuy]

"Extremely fast speeds" is an INCREDIBLE understatement. They're fired at relativistic speeds to produce the most powerful impact force Humanity could muster.

[mryuma]

UNSC ground tactics would be a great follow up to this

[jonathanwalker]

Out of all the other people that talk about Halo, you do the best job explaining the lore by far! Great work and thanks for helping us nerds out lol!

[darkbooger]

Chief: Sir, Permission to leave the station?

Hood: For what purpose, Master Chief?

Chief: To give the Covenant back their bomb.

Hood: Permission granted.

*Chief pulls the bomb into an elevator*

Cortana: I know what you're thinking, and it's crazy.

Chief: So stay here.

Cortana: Unfortunately for us both, I like crazy.

*Just as Master Chief is about to open the airlock*

Cortana: Just one question, what if you miss?

Chief: I won't.

*Airlock opens and pulls the bomb and Master Chief out into the vacuum*

*A whole space battle with more good music is in session*

*Longswords punch a whole in the Capital Ship's hull to give Chief an entrance*

*Chief continues through and arms the bomb, then proceeds by jumping up and out of the Carrier*

*The ship explodes and Chief lands on UNSC In Amber Clad*

Johnson: For a brick, he flew pretty good.

[Nediac]

Loving these Halo vids. The reason why the Covenant’s computer systems were so primitive compared to the UNSC was because they got another wrong idea from the Forerunner terminals. They thought that AI and other advanced computer systems were bad because of the forerunner’s thought on Mendicant Bias and other AI that went wrong

[Myname-ilvd]

YAAAS I'VE BEEN VOTING AND VOTING AND IT CAME THANK YOU SO MUCH IN SO FREAKING HAPPY YOU GIVE ME LIVE ECK

[punishedvenomsnake]

Eck makes the best damn videos on sci fi as a whole

[Char]

Awesome I've been waiting for a halo tactics episode

[ComradeDragon]

Its funny how AI was an advantage for the UNSC and now...well...

[steve]

3 Ideas I had for how the UNSC could have substantially improved their fortunes against the Covenant in space battles prior to Reach.

1--Develop EMP burst rounds for their point defense guns. This should not be that hard since ground forces had EMP burst grenades, same effect but scaled up for 50mm autocannons. The purpose is for targeting incoming plasma cannon and plasma torpedo rounds. These plasma rounds were so potent because the Covenant used magnetic fields not only for guidance but to keep the plasma rounds compressed and super hot. With dozens of EMP rounds bursting in proximity to these incoming rounds, the electromagnetic fields would be weakened or destroyed, causing failures in guidance and/or causing the incoming plasma to rapidly expand and dissipate into space without the constraining magnetic field holding them together.
2--Develop significantly larger version of MATOS pulse laser to be used as a large deck gun. We know that the UNSC had these pulse lasers before the war or early into the war, and we know they had power comparable to Covenant pulse lasers. We also know from Halo:Reach that if even a lighter weapon like an Onager strikes the energy projector on a Covenant ship while it is charged and ready to fire, it will badly damage, cripple, or outright destroy a Covenant ship. The large laser turret would be automated and with it's own sensor package (like a big version of Phalanx CIWS) and when the sensors detect a Covenant ship in weapon range (and a large laser should have a similar effective range in space as an energy projector) that starts charging it's energy projector, the turret automatically targets and fires on the energy projector, thus making the use of energy projectors against UNSC ships a risky proposition, as a well timed and well placed laser shot will disable or destroy them.
3--Warships able to receive beamed power from ground based generators just as ODPs do. This shouldn't be that difficult. Fit all or some ships (maybe only ships assigned to vital system defense, maybe even older refitted ships that don't even have their slipspace drives or many other systems and operating on skeleton crews) with the same energy beam receivers as the ODPs, and dedicate a few ground based generators (that don't need to generate nearly as much power as the ones that power the ODP's and their super MACs) and orbital power relay platforms (basically these would receive power from the ground and then have multiple projectors to beam power to a dozen, or two dozen, or maybe three dozen ships near the planet) and boom, you've got a defensive fleet that can operate within several hundred thousand kilometers of the planet that can rapid fire their MACs on full charge as fast as the MACs can be reloaded, or as fast as possible without melting the magnetic coils or burning out the capaciters, making planetary defense so much more potent. Think of that, even a bunch of cheap little frigates which can pump out 3, 4, maybe even 5 or 6 MAC rounds at full charge every minute while in the planetary defense the ODPs and their SMACs backing them up.

[warden-]

Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-fi universes.
(37th try)

[Mightybunyip]

As soon as he said Spartans boarding ships through extra vehicular activities. I had image in my head of a spray driving warthog out of a hanger door of a UNSC ship to a covenant ship. Don’t ask why.

[sgtpaloogoo]

The Last of the brave...
Love that song.
It reflects the UNSC's Struggle very well.

[briangriffin]

always loved the idea that the reason humans surpassed the Covenant was due to the innovation of mankind. The Covenant largely used the technology they had inherited as it was... but man clawed his way up.