Talk:Operation: FIRST STRIKE

This page needs a table like other battle pages- Spartan 1138

Note: I moved Battle of Installation04 to concurrent but left it in previous because technically both are true (time space anomoly).

--Master Gunnery Sergeant Hank J Wimbleton IV^COM 23:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

losses

I can estimate that the covenant have lost at less 1,200,000 soldier

No, you can't. Because you have absolutely no proof. --DEMONSPAWNED 02:48, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

discrepency

By Cortana's estimate, there were approximately 500 ships at the Unyielding Hierophant, and it was made clear that they knew the location of earth and were basically just waiting for the order to attack. At the start of Halo 2, there were only about 14 covenant cruisers, AND (this is really the more important part) Cortana herself said that they were surprised that the humans were on earth. They were most likely looking for an artifact on earth, like they did on reach, and were not expected to have to engage the strongest human armada in the galaxy. Furthermore, why bring bombs to destroy the MAC guns internally when you have massive plasma guns with pinpoint accuracy.

-- I don't really like to trust the Halo books at all, as they massively exaggerate the abilities of the Spartans and make you wonder why the humans were losing in the first place. Blowing up 500 ships sounds like total bull shit to me, and in general I didn't like the books at all.