Water battles in halo

I think cuz being on a boat is just like being in the sky bubble. You can't swim so you're going to die either way when you jump off.

If you really want a boat, then you should make one. There's no stopping you.

 

If you're talking about campaign, I think it's because boats are very vulnerable to the Covenant, even more so than starships, because they are big and not very maneuverable, etc. There isn't even any water. It all dried up while the Covenant was there digging.

But there are boats in Halo, the one in "The Storm" in Halo 3 and there are docks for large ones in Halo 2's "Metropolis".

 

I think large spaceships can move over water faster than a boat.
But that doesn't make any sense, does it?

 

Yer arse, that didnt happen. Might have only happened in New Mombassa but that doesnt mean all of it is gone.


Anyhoo, with stuff like Pelicans and Albatrosses for transport and trade, boats become unneccessary. Doesnt mean they all go away tho, so its possible for a map on a cargo ship.

And you should make a skybubble map of a boat, one of the first maps I made on Foundry was a giant Ark like from Noah Almighty. Frickin huge but ugly tho.

 

Its because naval transportation and control of the seas are not needed at all. They have evolved to Pelicans and Frigates which are pretty much your sea vehicles (but in space). Pelicans are pretty much your boats merged with jets. That is why the ONI (Office of Naval Intel.) referrs to space.

It would be like taking a Pelican across the ocean in 4 hours or so or taking a boat for 1 week. Plus Pelicans can go into space.

 

Actually, there are a few concepts for boats in The Art of Halo 3. One of them is a scenic view of Zanzibar/Last Resort with an oil tanker out on the horizon. There's also concepts for huge navy ships.

But Pelicans have shown to be reliable vehicles. In ODST even the police use them! They have a huge troop bays, very maneuvarable, can be dropped from space ships at the edge of space etc.
But they obviously haven't done away with ships totally in the Halo universe, its just fighting on one would be dull.

"Chief, clear the Covenant from this boat using weapons strong enough to sink it!"

 

i dont really see why you need whater battles. its just like flying, but you cant go up and down, so its like being on the ground but when you get off you die...

 

Being on a boat - It's like being on the ground, but when you get off you die.

 

Why? At that stage in technology, I'd be surprised if water held any strategic value.

The only Battleships would be in space. And they launch smaller planes, like the Longswords.

The only value I'd see water having would be if they had floating military bases or undersea ones. Even then, the closest thing to a ship would be something that lands on the water.

Ships are probably only used by poorer companies and people.

 

Especially when your enemy is coming from space and has the technology to just pop out of slipspace where ever they want!

Of course ships and boats still exist in the Halo-verse. Before the Covenant attacked, there weren't any inter-planetary wars. With most of humanity united, most of the wars would have been fought on the planet's surface and it doesn't make sense to launch a load of spaceships when your enemy is only over a stretch of water.

But against the Covenant, whats the point? They're sitting ducks. Lots of open water, Covenant ships see it from orbit and Ship sunk.

 

Consider yourself as a general for the UNSC. You have the option to send an armada of badass intergalactic spaceships with MAC Gun's and Shaw-Fujikawa translight engines or an armada of stupid little boats capable of being nothing more than a giant sign that says 'SHOOT HERE GUYS WE TRAVEL 1/100000000000 THE SPEED OF A MOTHERFUCKING SPACESHIP SO WERE NOT GOING ANYWHERE SO YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT US ESCAPING AND ****' to go fight the Covenant army and save the galaxy and planet Earth.

Now, unless you have an IQ under the threshold of 70 (which is the threshold for mental retardation) I doubt you would pick a bunch ****ing boats to go save the galaxy from a mentally insane Prophet bent on total destruction of humanity even if it kills himself and his whole bloody army of bad ass aliens of death and their ultra advanced starships capable of glassing an entire planet within a matter of hours. Hell, I have a .72 GPA and even I know this.

And that is why there are no water battles in Halo and why their probably wont ever be water battles in Halo.

 

Exactly. Space ships in the sky, or boats in the water? If you want water battles play a different game please.

 

u jumped off the edge of guardian and didnt die well i fell off but i didnt die

 

What does that have to do with anything???

 

In all honesty the closet thing to a ship map would be if they made the Orbital elevator in the Bahamas from the book. That would be kinda cool, it'd be an island with ships, a harbor and of course the orbital elevator.

 

well its different if we're talking about custom games. in campaign, itd be dumb because youre fighting the covenant, customs would be call

 

no, THAT was the MOST stupid comment in the whole thread. never did we say that there's "no boats in the future". your an idiot. all we said was the covenant would have an advantage if boats were used in combat do to the fact that the covenant would blow them up from space. The End.