Lance

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"They're in standard formation, little bastards up front, big ones in back."
Malta Station defense coordinator
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A standard Lance, preparing to combat Marines

A Lance is the second smallest known organization of Covenant military units, with a File being the smallest known group.


Variations

Standard

A Lance is usually commanded by a Minor Elite or a Minor Brute. [1] The Lance also contains a File of four Minor Grunts and one Major. Sometimes a Major Elite or Brute will oversee the command of three Lances into a battle.

Kig-Yar

Promotional image for Halo: Combat Evolved featuring two Kig-Yar Majors with the Eos'Mak-pattern plasma pistol. Screenshot of the level The Silent Cartographer from the Halo: Combat Evolved press kit.
A portion of a Kig-Yar Lance.

A lance of Kig-Yar usually consists and comprises of a group of four to six simple infantry Jackals, with one or two of them being Majors and the rest being Minors. Jackal lances are sometimes led by an Elite or Brute commander, though this is not always the case.[2]

Yanme'e

A lance of Drones is usually nothing more than a swarm of around a dozen or so soldiers. As they are very mobile and constantly airborne, Drone lances don't need to be commanded by a Sangheili. To Humans, no Commander can be distinguished within them.[3]

A Yanme'e Lance swarm in the Halo 2 level Outskirts.

Science Lance

Formed to recover and examine captured technology. Science Lances were dispatched by the Prophet of Regret in 2525 to the Damascus Testing Facility to study captured technology, although the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor had already been recovered by Spartan-II forces.[4]

Trivia

  • In the ancient world, a Lance consisted of "A long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging."[5]

A lance A long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights is sometimes known as a spear

See Also

Template:Halo Wars Covenant Units

References