What period in Halo should Halo Wars 2 take place?

Games Halo Wars Series
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So i really wanna know from as much people as possible when Halo Wars 2 should take place… which can easily lead us to what leaders there can be. For example, if it took place between Halos 1 and 2, we could have leaders like Tartarus, 343 Guilty Spark, mc, johnson, or arby.

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Well, I was imagining HW 2 having its campaign divided into smaller episodes. That is if i343 want to bring Halo Wars to present Halo time.

Each episode would be about different things the SoF crew need to overcome and with different time gaps inbetween, like 5 yeara in between.

As for what leaders we could use. If there’s a set timeline shortly after Halo Wars, it’s doubtful we’ll get established characters as leader other than Cutter and Anders.

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I would really like to know this as well. After watching the trailer it looks like it will be before H1.

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I was always hoping for it to be post-war, with the plot focusing on finding the Spirit of Fire. In Halo: Escalation, it was pretty clear that Hood held a considerable amount of guilt for the disappearance of the Spirit. What better way to give him a redemption arc than having the sequel for Halo Wars focusing on him trying to amend his past actions?

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Well…the Spirit of Fite is still drifting post war so hopefully this is not so far back in the time line

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Personally, I would like to see the campaign take place during a set period (yes I know, duh doi). Any time during the UNSC/Covenant war, I don’t care. But as for multiplayer/online gameplay I would like to see it cover or draw from the entire UNSC/Covenent conflict.

By keeping campaign set in one period you appease all the canon purists (or at least pay lip service to them), but then by allowing multiplayer/online to draw from the entirety of the Halo storyline you would open up the gameplay for more varied unit, technological, and weapon combinations. No, not permutations, but for example, you wouldn’t have the dilema of having a spartan using a spartan laser before it’s been invented, or them having shields before they became standard for spartans. It would allow for units to start at baseline technologies, but then upgrade to higher tech seen in later Halo games. Etc…
Do you follow?