Do you think liches will be the replacements of phantoms ?
I think we will see more of these in the future Halo’s
In large battles, but they’d be accompanied by a few pahantoms or spirits.
They’re too large for some insersions.
> In large battles, but they’d be accompanied by a few pahantoms or spirits.
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> They’re too large for some insersions.
True , i miss spirits.
Just a funny little tidbit: In the Reach mapfiles, the Spirit vehicle tags are named “tuning_fork”
> “tuning_fork”
Haha it kinda looks like a fork x)
Just thinking what would the UNSC bring to face the liche? If they bring something to fight with it then they could appear more often in awesome and epic sequences in campaign.
> > “tuning_fork”
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> Haha it kinda looks like a fork x)
I’m totally telling the truth there, that’s really what it’s called in the game’s files! I laughed my head off when I saw it.
There’s also a Lion King reference in every mapfile:
You can find a tag called “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts”
and elsewhere there’s another tag called “Look at them all standing in a row!”
Watch the Lion King. Go to the part where Scar makes Zazu sing “something bouncy”
Haven’t seen that movie in years. Watched it the other day and I was like “WHOA, so that’s what it means!”
> > > “tuning_fork”
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> > Haha it kinda looks like a fork x)
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> I’m totally telling the truth there, that’s really what it’s called in the game’s files! I laughed my head off when I saw it.
> There’s also a Lion King reference in every mapfile:
> You can find a tag called “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts”
> and elsewhere there’s another tag called “Look at them all standing in a row!”
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> Watch the Lion King. Go to the part where Scar makes Zazu sing “something bouncy”
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> Haven’t seen that movie in years. Watched it the other day and I was like “WHOA, so that’s what it means!”
I’m trying so hard to not laugh right now because I’m at a public place…
On topic. Maybe there could be battles with two or three at the same time! LARGE BATTLES! complete with Scarab support.
Liches kinda remind me of flying Scarabs. Think about it!
3 floors
Door on the top
Plasma turrets on the sides
Big green beam of death
Reactor in the back (with a shield on it!)
…and it’s purple with green lights. Just like the scarab in H3.
> Liches kinda remind me of flying Scarabs. Think about it!
> 3 floors
> Door on the top
> Plasma turrets on the sides
> Big green beam of death
> Reactor in the back (with a shield on it!)
> …and it’s purple with green lights. Just like the scarab in H3.
Think of the Halo2 scarab combined with a phantom bam lich
Halo 2 one had no reactor or plasma turrets on the sides 
I see where you’re coming from though.
> Halo 2 one had no reactor or plasma turrets on the sides
> I see where you’re coming from though.
hmm i thought it had turrets. But i find this one actually intressting compared to the phantom.
It had two big AA turrets on the butt and top that magically vanished when destroyed, with no explosion. CLEARLY an advancement of Covenant technology, explosion-less destruction.
> It had two big AA turrets on the butt and top that magically vanished when destroyed, with no explosion. CLEARLY an advancement of Covenant technology, explosion-less destruction.
lol they have their own black hole vacumm cleaner inbuilt to the ship
> Liches kinda remind me of flying Scarabs. Think about it!
> 3 floors
> Door on the top
> Plasma turrets on the sides
> Big green beam of death
> Reactor in the back (with a shield on it!)
> …and it’s purple with green lights. Just like the scarab in H3.
Except the beam is harmless. 
Also, it lacks AI.
The Halo 2 Scarab may have had incomplete AA guns, but at least it had more roaming space. The Halo 3 Scarab should have been larger.
They’ll be back, sure, and hopefully in a more fearsome role. But if you ask me, Spirits and Phantoms were enough to satisfy my combat needs.
I think it’s time for the UNSC to get something other than the Pelican as their drop-ship of choice. It’s great and versatile (it can drop a Scorpion, and tank beats everything), but a more robust dropship platform could play nicely for large scale battles.
> They’ll be back, sure, and hopefully in a more fearsome role. But if you ask me, Spirits and Phantoms were enough to satisfy my combat needs.
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> I think it’s time for the UNSC to get something other than the Pelican as their drop-ship of choice. It’s great and versatile (it can drop a Scorpion, and tank beats everything), but a more robust dropship platform could play nicely for large scale battles.
Agree the mantis was kinda meh and too op in Halo4 for me to enjoy fighting it in mp but was fun in campaign.
> They’ll be back and in greater numbers, sure, and hopefully in a more fearsome role. But if you ask me, Spirits and Phantoms were enough to satisfy my combat needs.
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> I think it’s time for the UNSC to get something other than the Pelican as their drop-ship of choice. It’s great and versatile (it can drop a Scorpion, and tank beats everything), but a more robust dropship platform could play nicely for large scale battles.
fixed
meh, shame its bad quality 
Liches are BS to lore IMO. Same with the Storm Rifle.
I don’t see how the Storm Covenant was a ragtag band of people with barley enough gear yet they were able to create and mass produce New Rifles superior to the last 3 others and create a new war ship which is a flying scarab. For a faction who can barley get CCS Class battleships they seem to have alot of unknown funding.
But having liches becoming the main unit for troop transports would be a bit much. They clearly are superior than Phantoms in combat and how many troops they can carry but it would seem to be very over powered and losing one ship and you just lost a platoon of troops and it would be hard to land in many areas. If you ask me the one transport that can carry many troops on the field and have the fire power to destroy and defend would the Shadow. ( i don’t know whats going on in this pictue but it looks like the Covenant are taking human civilian prisoners. Can someone let me in on whats going on here.)
> create a new war ship which is a flying scarab.
They didn’t create them though. The Lich was around during the War, but was poorly documented by the UNSC as it’s effectiveness resulted in the complete annihilation of Human opponents.
> ( i don’t know whats going on in this pictue but it looks like the Covenant are taking human civilian prisoners. Can someone let me in on whats going on here.)
Col. Ackerson was captured during the battle of Mars. While being interrogated by the Brute shipmaster. Ackerson told him about this “Forerunner artefact” called the “Key of Onsolan” (Which was actually something him and his brother made up as kids) hiding in Cleveland. The Coveanant captured a bunch of Humans and took them to the city stadium to ask them what the -Yoink- the Key is/where is it. Ackerson got the Covenant to waste tons of resources during the battle to look for something that didn’t even exist.