Someone else might know more about Space Combat then I do but I feel that Starfighters in Halo are far more secondary in that setting then in Star Wars where it's a main component of spacebattles. I think most space combat between ships is the actual capitol ships hurling missiles and plasma and railgun slugs at each other and the smaller craft are kinda just there to support things like epic hero boarding actions or as we see in the games, supporting planetary operations and other smaller missions.
I could be completely mistaken though.
Well, UNSC does make use of fighters, but being as they were unshielded, they were always easy pickings for the Covenant's point defense laser grid, which if I recall, was pretty accurate.
UNSC has stationary guns. Ones called a Lance. They also have Kodiak Howitzers which are towed and others that are wheeled self propelled vehicles. Plus both stationary and self propelled MLRS systems. I think they can even be mounted on Warthog variants.
For the Empire you'd have to look even harder. There's an artillery vehicle in
Empire At War called an
SPMA-T Walker that fires energy bolts. The Imperial Sourcebook states that the Imperial Army has Artillery Battalions and the like but offers no details beyond the organization of the unit and that they are apparently some form of tube style artillery.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds has a unit literally called
Mobile Artillery which can be upgraded to
heavy artillery.
There's also Mortar Troopers.
I actually did check the ISB and it did give some information on some artillery. Specifically the Leveler I:
The Leveler I was a self propelled medium concussion missile launcher produced by Bryn & Gweith. The Leveler I comprised twenty-eight concussion missile tubes arranged in a four-by-seven array mounted on a heavy-track chassis. The tubes had several fire modes, including individual fire, seven...
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Pretty impressive. It's an MLR with 28 concussion missile tubes. 20 meter blast radius and has a range of up to 16 km. Could fire individually, in salvos of seven, or all at once. Even had a dispersal option for wide, narrow, and medium. Unfortunately, each tube has to be reloaded by hand. That's one of their medium artillery pieces.
The C-136 was a land-based ion cannon produced by Speizoc Arms. The C-136 was designed for line-of-sight attacks, and was employed against large targets such as cities, although it was also deployed against other created structures such as bridges and dams, and even low-orbit stationary targets...
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The c-136 is one of their heavy artillery pieces, but it's older and seems to be inspired by the German Gustav, in that it requires time to assemble and prepare. It's basically an ion cannon and has a 100-burst radius, with a maximum range of 25 km. Basically designed to target and demolish cities or large fortifications during the Clone Wars.
It does seem like a lot because you added a zero. Instead of 3x you got 30x? Unless you meant three times as many tanks per Army trooper as opposed to Marines, in which case yeah that still seems like a lot.
Yeah, that was my logic.
A modern or Cold War Division might have 200-300 tanks depending on things. When looking at setting up a
nother versus match a Soviet Motorized Rifle Brigade had 220 Main Battle Tanks. And a 1989-era US Mechanized Infantry Division had something like
five armor battalions with almost sixty Abrams tanks each. But I'd agree there would be a lot of Warthogs since I'd assume they'd be fully motorized/mechanized. The UNSC Army has special Warthog APC variants that are completely enclosed and armored.
EDIT:
Oh wow just discovered this from
Empire at War as well. It's another artillery walker.
The All Terrain Attack Pod (AT-AP), or Pod Attack Walker (PAW),[4] was a tripedal walker that evolved from the AT-PT and AT-TE walkers towards the end of the Clone Wars. They were used by the 327th Star Corps, 91st Reconnaissance Corps, 41st Elite Corps, 282nd Regiment, 121st Regiment, 96th...
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I think the US army is a good rule of thumb. That would give them 300 tanks. Which I think is a good number. Looking at some comments online, it seems like a light infantry battalion might have 27-41. I'm going to assume 41, since the UNSC seems to really like its Warthogs, but they don't seem to outnumber the tanks. That would give the UNSC 574 warthogs jeeps of various designs.
According to Halopedia, which it says is working off of the Halo Sourcebook, it seems to indicate that a UNSC Division sized formation is about 14,000 troops though obviously it's not all combat troops.
Got it, I'll make the adjustments.
The other important thing to note is that the UNSC Army and UNSC Marines actually in some cases favor different variants of Warthogs and Scorpion Tanks, as well as things like rifles and other small arms. I think the UNSC Army actually has a wider variety of platforms they do actually use commonly then the UNSC Marines. It's just the Marines are naturally featured more in the lore so you know less about the Army
Hmmm, good to know, although I don't think it will make too much of a difference.
They also use different dropships. The Marines use the Pelican and the Army uses something called the Falcon which IIRC looks more like a helicopter then the Pelican does.
That's right, it's what they used in Reach, right?
Hmmm, I wonder what's our best option for UNSC artillery? It looks to be mostly mobile.
