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A Covenant artillery piece from Halo 2.

The Covenant Artillery^[1] is a ground-based Covenant field artillery piece. It fires bolts of plasma in indirect parabolic trajectories, and is essentially a larger version of the plasma mortar mounted on Wraiths.

Appearances

A Covenant artillery gun firing in the Halo 2 E3 Demo.

Halo 2 E3 Demo

The Covenant artillery gun was first seen in the Halo 2 E3 Demo. When the Covenant invaded Mombasa, they stationed a handful of artillery pieces on the ground, which demolished UNSC buildings. Eventually, SPARTAN John-117 and a group of Marines encountered one, and Sergeant Marcus Banks called in an air strike to destroy the stationary mortar. The artillery battery is much larger in the demo than its retail version counterpart.^[1]

Halo 2

The roles of the artillery guns as an active part of the Covenant assault were greatly downgraded in the retail version of Halo 2, as the levels featuring the guns were completely redesigned. Several artillery pieces are deployed on the beaches of Old Mombasa in the level Outskirts, but none of them are seen being fired during gameplay.

Trivia

The Covenant Locust in Halo Wars bears noticeable resemblance to the Covenant artillery battery.

Sources

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-[[Image:P1a5ma_m0r7ar.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Covenant Artillery piece from ''[[Halo 2]]''.]]
+[[Image:P1a5ma_m0r7ar.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Covenant artillery piece from ''[[Halo 2]]''.]]
-The '''Covenant Artillery'''<ref name="e3">'''[[Halo 2 E3 Demo]]'''</ref> is a piece of ground-based [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] field artillery. It fires bolts of [[plasma]] in indirect parabolic trajectories, and is essentially a larger version of the [[plasma mortar]] mounted on [[wraiths]].
+The '''Covenant Artillery'''<ref name="e3">'''[[Halo 2 E3 Demo]]'''</ref> is a ground-based [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] field artillery piece. It fires bolts of [[plasma]] in indirect parabolic trajectories, and is essentially a larger version of the [[plasma mortar]] mounted on [[Wraiths]].
 ==Appearances==
 [[File:H2E3Demo_CovenantArtillery.png|thumb|A Covenant artillery gun firing in the ''Halo 2'' E3 Demo.]]
-===Halo 2 E3 Demo===
-The Covenant Artillery gun was first seen in the ''[[Halo 2 E3 Demo]]''. When the Covenant invaded [[Mombasa]], they stationed a handful of artillery pieces on the ground, which demolished [[UNSC]] buildings. Eventually, [[Spartan-117]] and his group of [[Marine]]s encountered one, and [[Sergeant]] [[Banks]] called in a [[longsword]] air strike to destroy the stationary mortar. A sizable difference is that in the demo the anti-aircraft battery is larger than its ''[[Halo 2]]'' and ''[[Halo 3]]'' successors.<ref name="e3"/>
-===Halo 2===
+===''Halo 2 E3 Demo''===
-The roles of the artillery guns as an active part of the Covenant assault were greatly downgraded in ''Halo 2'', as the [[Earth]] levels featuring the guns were completely redesigned. Several artillery pieces were seen deployed on the beach of [[Old Mombasa]] in the level [[Outskirts (Level)|Outskirts]], but none of them were seen firing during gameplay.<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', ''{{Levelname|Outskirts}}''</ref>
+The Covenant artillery gun was first seen in the ''[[Halo 2 E3 Demo]]''. When the Covenant invaded [[Mombasa]], they stationed a handful of artillery pieces on the ground, which demolished [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] buildings. Eventually, [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN]] [[John-117]] and a group of [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] encountered one, and [[Sergeant]] [[Marcus Banks]] called in an air strike to destroy the stationary mortar. The artillery battery is much larger in the demo than its retail version counterpart.<ref name="e3"/>
+===''Halo 2''===
+The roles of the artillery guns as an active part of the Covenant assault were greatly downgraded in the retail version of ''[[Halo 2]]'', as the levels featuring the guns were completely redesigned. Several artillery pieces are deployed on the beaches of [[Old Mombasa]] in the level ''[[Outskirts (Level)|Outskirts]]'', but none of them are seen being fired during gameplay.
 ==Trivia==
-*The Covenant [[locust]] in ''[[Halo Wars]]'' bears noticeable resemblance to the ''Halo 2'' design of the AA battery.
+*The Covenant [[Locust]] in ''[[Halo Wars]]'' bears noticeable resemblance to the Covenant artillery battery.
-*In ''Halo 2'', it is unknown whether the Covenant placed them as a deterrent or as an effective offensive weapon, since none are actually fired.
-*In ''Halo 2'', if you mod the maps with the AA battery present, you can witness the intended projectile of the weapon. It is very similar to the E3 Demo projectile. This projectile looks exactly the same as a wraith's plasma mortar shot, but has very high damage and an extremely large explosion radius, which is about twice that of the scarab's main gun beam.
-*The versions of the Anti-Aircraft Batteries featured in the ''Halo 2 E3 Demo'' appear to be several times larger than the ones featured in the final version of the game. An explanation for this could be that Bungie did not want to scrap the model after rewriting the layout and storyline for the level [[Metropolis (Level)|Metropolis]]. As a result, Bungie downsized and reused the model for the level Outskirts in order to avoid having to scrap the battery's model which they had worked so hard to design.
-*The Covenant Artillery is one of the few weapons powerful enough to destroy a [[Bubble Shield|bubble shield]] or the [[Invincibility (Equipment)|invincibility]] power-up.<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'''</ref>
-*The Covenant Artillery resembles the Covenant AA batteries present in ''Halo 3''.
 ==Sources==