Halo wars will not be a PC game or have any space battles. that is what i have heard.

Go to Halo.Wikia.com it has lots of info for Halo ships, like material, crew compliment, eras, etc. If you need any more info, go there.

Well the books often describe the MAC rounds as being red fiery balls of death, so the standard TEC Gauss Platform just redder and bigger would work for your standard ship-based MAC. The SMAC's however are white-hot and bigger. Much bigger. I was thinking a actual ball at the front with a flaming trail behind it. Kinda like a meteor.

I guess the real question is whether or not Bungie considers the games or books closer to their vision, because the ship-based MACs and SMACs were yellowy tinged in Halo 2 and Halo 3. Of course, in H3, we're not entirely sure what the ships were firing at the Forerunner dreadnought. Well, except for shivas. They wouldn't risk nukes.

Well, I just watched the frigate firing scene from Halo 3, and they don't actually show the rounds themselves. However, if the trail is any indication, they are yellow. Here's a reference image:

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Edit: If I get time, I'll watch the Halo 2 playthrough on my Legendary disc to see if I can get a view of the shell from the SMAC.

Edit again: Well, I don't know if it was a limitation in what was recorded or the game itself but I didn't see any shells in the H2 playthrough. There was a yellow-ish explosion but nothing actually launched from the platform.

yup thats about what i was thinking.


That one picture fish face mcgee just showed was epic. When did i miss that in H3?

It was the end of the level, The Storm, right before Floodgate. I'm gonna see if there's anything to see in the covenant on covenant fight at the beginning of The Ark level.

sorry im posting now had some difficulties
yea i can make a MAC, just tell me specs and if you have models

If there was to be a Halo mod ( which i would love having been wishing for a halo space combat game since i read the books) I would like to see the MAC cannon and the plasma torpedos as realistic( towards the books' reality) as possible meaning if a covenant ship's shields are down and it gets hit by 3 MAC rounds i dont want that thing walking/ floating away from that id like near instant explosion. also id like to see exploding big ships doing damage to others to near by and this can be helped by having ships react when a big one is close to destruction by moving away. Im not a modder so if i suggested impossible things please be gentle in letting me know I'm just throwin some ideas out there

When is the new thread coming out that Acolyte promised weeks ago?

Humans shouldn't have any sort of bombardment ability. It doesn't make sense they'd nuke their own planets, and I can't recall a single instance when they ever did. Humans should get a "Invade planet". It's been talked about in many mods, maybe even this one. Instead of fireing nukes, the human ships launch pelicans and Albatross' (It's from Halo Wars) and invade the planet with ground forces.

Covies should get both, depending on how you wanna add MAC's. You could give covie warships the ability to launch ground forces from the edge of the gravity well (outside of the MAC fireing range) and let them fight on the ground to destroy the MAC generators, so the covie ships can move in and glass the planet. I did that with my WC3 map. The SMAC platforms could be killed, but since they can one-hit kill a carrier (That big one in the pics above) it would be near suicide to attack it, so the covie player had to land ground forces to kill the mac generators so all the SMAC platforms went offline. Would deffinently add a nice dynamic to the game.

What do you mean? In terms of movement, you don't get to see a whole lot, it just zooms in and stops. Not to mention that I'd only be able to do pictures so movement wouldn't be all that easy to capture. However, if it's detailed shots of the ship, then I can do that.

That actually sounds fairly do-able i'll just get the little colony ships and replace them with pelicans. The resulting explosions would be the invasion taking place (i'd make them less nuclear looking)