Possibly a new Enemy or Vehicle.

Games Other Halo
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Alyson (Producer) - The suppressor has slowly won me over and become my favorite Promethean weapon. It feels good, sounds good, and breaking a Knight’s shield just before finishing him off or the popping death of a Bishop is a satisfying kill.

Did anyone else catch this in the new bulletin? http://blogs.halo.xbox.com/Headlines/post/2012/09/26/The-Halo-Bulletin-92612-.aspx

For those who don’t know. The Bishop and Knight are both pieces in chess.

The Knight in chess, is the only piece that can hop over other pieces.
The Knight in halo can teleport behind walls or any where else he pleases.
See the similarities?

So what is this Bishop?

A new enemy perhaps?

A vehicle?

Alyson said its something that you can kill so my guess is Enemy. It would make sense to give the prometheans/forerunner vehicles a chess theme since they are depicted as a highly intelligent species so it could be a vehicle.

UNSC = Animals I.e Mongoose, pelican etc.

Covenant = Monsters or Scary Beings I.e Ghost, Banshee, Phantom I.e

Prometheans = Chess?

What do you guys think?

Does someone already know what a Bishop is?

Sorry if this is old news but this is the first I’ve heard of it.

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This isn’t the first time they’ve done a chess-like comparison.

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This topic made me think of the Halo Reach Chess custom game.

I hope they bring it back and refine it. Playing it splitscreen with my girlfriend was a blast.

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halo chess showed me how to play chess :wink:

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We know the development code-name for the Watcher Sentinels was the “Bishop”.

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Chess pieces are their code-names for the Prometheans. Knights are Knights, Crawlers are Pawns, and I’m pretty sure they said that Watchers are Bishops. Maybe not though.

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Do you have a link?

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That’s very interesting… I actually really like that. I love the themes they’ve established with other species, as you said, with humans having animals and covenant having all the things that lived in my closet as a kid. The chess thing would be really cool.

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> That’s very interesting… I actually really like that. I love the themes they’ve established with other species, as you said, with humans having animals and covenant having all the things that lived in my closet as a kid. The chess thing would be really cool.

Those things still live in my closet…

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> > That’s very interesting… I actually really like that. I love the themes they’ve established with other species, as you said, with humans having animals and covenant having all the things that lived in my closet as a kid. The chess thing would be really cool.
>
> Those things still live in my closet…

…mine live in my room ;-;

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Is there no one who can answer this?

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> Chess pieces are their code-names for the Prometheans. Knights are Knights, Crawlers are Pawns, and I’m pretty sure they said that Watchers are Bishops. Maybe not though.

Watchers = Rooks.

Rooks resemble a castle tower. Watchers watch from castle towers.

Plausible? Yes.

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2 new vehicles(Assuming one is Promethean and the other is UNSC)
3 enemies
Ancient Evil

Chess Pieces:
Knight- Promie Knight
Rook- Watcher as someone said
Pawn- Crawlers
Bishop- New Vehicle(There is a leak somewhere, have fun finding it)
King- The Ancient Evil that is controlling it all from behind the scenes
Queen-(Maybe Cortana as a twist)

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> 2 new vehicles(Assuming one is Promethean and the other is UNSC)
> 3 enemies
> Ancient Evil
>
> Chess Pieces:
> Knight- Promie Knight
> Rook- Watcher as someone said
> Pawn- Crawlers
> Bishop- New Vehicle<mark>(There is a leak somewhere, have fun finding it)</mark>
> King- The Ancient Evil that is controlling it all from behind the scenes
> Queen-(Maybe Cortana as a twist)

If you have a link to it please PM me it.I wanna check it out.

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> > 2 new vehicles(Assuming one is Promethean and the other is UNSC)
> > 3 enemies
> > Ancient Evil
> >
> > Chess Pieces:
> > Knight- Promie Knight
> > Rook- Watcher as someone said
> > Pawn- Crawlers
> > Bishop- New Vehicle<mark>(There is a leak somewhere, have fun finding it)</mark>
> > King- The Ancient Evil that is controlling it all from behind the scenes
> > Queen-(Maybe Cortana as a twist)
>
> If you have a link to it please PM me it.I wanna check it out.

mw too