Halo Wars 2 Leader DLC Idea's?

So me and a friend of mine we’re discussing what we liked about the Forge DLC. We ended up talking about possible leaders, here’s what we and or I alone came up with:

If you come up with any leader idea’s comment them down below in the same format and I Might add them to the main post

Ps. I will not add main line story characters such as Agent Locke or Master Chief since they are main characters for the main story lines. Let’s give some other under appreciated characters a time to shine or sideline Characters such as Lasky.

  • Captain Thomas Lasky

Special Unit: Mantis
Special Leader Power: Infinity Barrage (Fires series of UNSC/Forerunner mix concentrated Macs from Infinity [macs leaves a aura of fire which will continues to damage units remaining in the area, mac does not kill])
Special Leader Support: Infinity Drop (Drops Special Units which support a mixture of Infantry, Vehicle, or Air support)

  • Commander Palmer

Special Unit: Spartan Recruit Squads Max of 5 or 10 depending on infantry level
Special Leader Power: Spartan Strike (Unleashes temporary Spartan Fire Teams to do some damage)
Special Leader Support: Drill Management (Put all units under selection to have double attack speed and health for a very short period of time after revolve units do halve damage half health and slower than normal)

  • Thel’ Vadam (Arbiter)

Special Unit: Sangheili Lieutenant or Arbiter (Max 1)
Special Leader Power: Sangheili Strike Force (Unleashes A horde of Sangheili units to quickly rush)
Special Leader Support: Uproar Rally (Arbiter influences his units with his amazingness units within Arbiters or any Lieutenants sight gets a 40% defense against their counter unit. 10% against all other units)

  • The Didact

Special Unit: Promethean Honor Guard
Special Leader Power: Convergence (Takes near by infantry units and composes them into Prometheans. Temporarily control vehicles units (all and any up to population of 20))
Special Leader Support: The Didacts Hand (Temporarily gives all Promethean infantry units an indestructible shield. Those until will do halve damage)

  • The Gravemind

Special Unit: Infected Flood Horde (A unit squad that is a mixture of combat forms and Aerial forms. Max of 2)
Special Leader Power: Infection Miasmic Swarm (Deploys a series of Fog or cloud like substances around all flood based units, any units that get to close for long exposures will convert to flood as long as The Gravemind Leaders Population isn’t max)
Special Leader Support: Flood Immergence (Deploys a mini Flood Base. a temporary place to spawn flood swarms, or Combat Forms as long as it remains on the field. aka Warms and Combat forms that the leader does not control will constantly attack until the mini base it destroyed or their selected target. Warms and Combat forms have a max of 20 population. While a single mini base is in play Gravemind cannot build any units)

Submitted Idea’s

  • Sergeant Johnson (Submitted by: IRISH KNIFER6) THIS IS A REALITY NOW!

Special Unit: Sergeant Johnson himself
Special Leader Power: ?
Special Leader Support: ?
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I couldn’t think of Leader powers for this one. submit your idea’s below

  • Yabda The Merciless [Grunt Faction] Submitted by: ExOtIcSsss

<>Special Unit: Grunt Mech
Special Leader Power: Merciless Raid (Passive Power that automatically give all grunts 1 veterans star.)
Special Leader Support: Death from above (Deploys Grunt Squads Drop Pods with Fuel Rod Cannons.)
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Because this grunt is unique he may have a mixture of UNSC and Grunt Units.

  • The Prophet of Regret Submitted by: SKEDAR RED TEAM

The Same Leader powers from the original, however I don’t think this one will really be added, but it’s worth a try had he holds a special spot in all our hearts.

  • Special Unit:* Honor Guard
  • Special Leader Power:* Cleansing Beam (All a covenant frigate to strike down upon and area to glass the area.)
  • Special Leader Support:* Spirit Support (All a series of Spirits to deploy units at a moments notice)
  • Serina (Submitted by: MyNamesFuRii)

Special Unit: Gremlins
Special Leader Power: ?
Special Leader Support: ?
Couldn’t think of leaders powers discuss Idea’s below

  • Jul Mdama (Submitted by: MyNamesFuRii)

Special Unit: Jul Mdama
Special Leader Power: ?
Special Leader support: ?
Couldn’t think of leader powers, discuss Idea’s below

  • Naked Dancing Guy from H3 (Submitted by: WillumpTheYeti) ok sorry but I had to this was just too funny! Great H3 Pick!
  • Serin Osman (Submitted by: ST1CKMAN GAMER)

Special Unit - Cloaked Spartan (Sniper)
Leader Power - Black Box (Lifts Fog of War completely or takes control of base defences, I can’t tell which is better)
Leader Support - ONI Training (All infantry have increased damage and mobility, but less health and defence

  • Lord Hood (Submitted by Conversation between KogaGemte III and MyNamesFuRii)

Special Unit: Long Sword (Super Unit)
Special Leader Ability: Orbital Defense Grid (Calls in a series of Parsing Orbital Strikes from Crio-Station which blast for a short period of time. All units are venerable to this ability.)
Special Leader Support: Giving back the Bomb (Lord Hood Orders Master Chief to intercept enemy Leader powers that affect Lord Hoods Units and takes control of that leader power for the duration of the enemies power to use against Lord Hoods Enemy.)

No way the didact should be in this,and the arbiters name is Thel vadam

My ideas would be
Arbiter
Lasky
Any Prophet

I don’t get why everyone wants more of the same UNSC leaders. I’d much rather have a new faction like Cortana with Prometheans or Gravemind with the Flood.

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> I don’t get why everyone wants more of the same UNSC leaders. I’d much rather have a new faction like Cortana with Prometheans or Gravemind with the Flood.

Well that’s why I have The Didact and The Gravemind in there.
I added Lasky because I really want to play as Lasky for some reason.

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> No way the didact should be in this,and the arbiters name is Thel vadam
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> My ideas would be
> Arbiter
> Lasky
> Any Prophet

But wouldn’t it be cool to play as a forerunner?

No sgt Johnson!?!?!?!!??! You can’t forget sgt Johnson man

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> No sgt Johnson!?!?!?!!??! You can’t forget sgt Johnson man

I couldn’t think of a Special Unit or leader powers. though I would love that!

Master Chief…

I want the giant mech grunt NOW!!!

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> I want the giant mech grunt NOW!!!

lol I’d love a grunt faction, are you talking about Yabda The Merciless?

The Prophet of Regret needs to be back !

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> lol I’d love a grunt faction, are you talking about Yabda The Merciless?

Yeah! He could be summoned in a mech armor and would have both UNSC and covenant units.

Alright I updated the forum post!

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> > No way the didact should be in this,and the arbiters name is Thel vadam
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> > My ideas would be
> > Arbiter
> > Lasky
> > Any Prophet
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> But wouldn’t it be cool to play as a forerunner?

No way to balance it though

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> > > Lasky
> > > Any Prophet
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> > But wouldn’t it be cool to play as a forerunner?
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> No way to balance it though

anything can be balanced.

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> > > > No way the didact should be in this,and the arbiters name is Thel vadam
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> > > > My ideas would be
> > > > Arbiter
> > > > Lasky
> > > > Any Prophet
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> > > But wouldn’t it be cool to play as a forerunner?
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> > No way to balance it though
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> anything can be balanced.

…have you played wzff? They can’t even balance a.I health or damage output

Didact would be nice.

Maybe Serina, she could be brought back like Forge was.
Shipmaster Rtas’ Vadum (He would be a sort of covenant version of the Shipmaster)
Lord Hood
Jerome could easily just be put into a leadership role since he is already in the game. (Like Forge is a leader and Hero unit)
Jun, maybe because he survived Reach.
The Arbiter Ripa Moramee (Hopefully i’m spelling his name right)
Jul Mdama
Dr. Halsey

Theres so many possibilities, I could keep going but I don’t want to drag on.

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> > > > > No way the didact should be in this,and the arbiters name is Thel vadam
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> > > > > Arbiter
> > > > > Lasky
> > > > > Any Prophet
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> > > > But wouldn’t it be cool to play as a forerunner?
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> …have you played wzff? They can’t even balance a.I health or damage output

probably because they don’t want to take the time to. it’s really the same as how people thought sprint couldn’t be balanced in Halo. Yet Bungie and 343 found a way. Bungie even did it with Elites plus duel wielding which where thought to be unbalanced and Add to unbalancible.

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> Maybe Serina, she could be brought back like Forge was.
> Shipmaster Rtas’ Vadum (He would be a sort of covenant version of the Shipmaster)
> Lord Hood****Jerome could easily just be put into a leadership role since he is already in the game. (Like Forge is a leader and Hero unit)
> Jun, maybe because he survived Reach.
> The Arbiter Ripa Moramee (Hopefully i’m spelling his name right)
> Jul Mdama Dr. HalseyTheres so many possibilities, I could keep going but I don’t want to drag on.

What do you think is more likely?