Bruh, this is becoming the ultimate Sci-Fi channel!

Bungie-era Covenant weapons were terrifying. Plasma torpedoes would track a ship, as if by magic. They could be fired from the opposite side of a star system and any return shots would pass harmlessly through them, and when they did hit they would melt a dozen decks away like it ain't no thang. You had to be VERY lucky for your ship to not be one-hit-killed. They were significantly watered-down when 343 took over.

You missed the shiva missiles

What's your favorite unsc ship? Mine is the spirit of fire

10:58 My favorite cut-scene in all of Halo. Infinity go "We hit a covenant cruiser? meh... We destroyed it when we hit it? Any day... Why? Cuz when we go hand-to-hand, we go hammer!"

I think you should do something weird, chose any ship, and both sides have the exact same ship. The catch is that the crews are different, such as Old Republic vs the Empire, or Rebels Vs even the Covenant. Star wars factions, of course will be able to use force users associated with the faction. (11th attempt)

ODST vs arc troopers, great video!

The Cybermen vs The Borg.

Coil gun, AKA Gauss gun, is more complex but less power intensive and can be built for hand held. Rail gun is larger but less complex yet needs more power. Coil gun uses electromagnetic rings, coils, to individually charge and pull a projectile along. Thus only need a small amount of power which switches between rings. Rail gun uses to long rails with a conductive projectile to complete the circuit and launch with the magnetic field that is generated.

I always thought that the "Plasma Torpedo" was a Scarlet Red Blob of Destruction as described in The Fall of Reach Novel (Kinda like the Romulan Plasma Weapon seen in Star Trek Balance of Terror). the ones showed in the Halo 5 Fall of Reach Movie Adaptation and the Halo Legends Episode "The Package" are used much more abundantly and are tiny and don't result in 1 hit kills against UNSC Ships. For this reason I suspect there are Multiple Types of Plasma Torpedo. The Weapons on the Covenant Corvette are Plasma Cannons which Can shoot Powered Shots (Often Mistaken for Plasma Torpedoes) Phantom Gunboats have Concussion Plasma Cannons. This is merely observation.

Um most nukes of the UNSC, Havoc and Shiva (30mt and 50mt respectively) did do serious damage to covenant ships, either shield or the ships themselves, the small nukes you are thinking of that were mainly for EMP was the Fury Tac Nuke, and that is a special ordinance used either to wipe out large amounts of ground forces, or more preferably, to take out a covenant ship through boarding action, and Archers were also used to take out shields to be followed by MAC or nuke fire, there are also many iterations of the Archer Missile, the ones used by say the Spirit of Fire are going to be rather different than the ones used by the UNSC Infinity, the main commonality being that they are presumably compatible with the same missile tubes. as such newer ones are better at taking out shields than their predecessors,

This channel had quickly become one of my favourites on KZfaq. The time and effort put into these on a daily basis is incredible. Keep up the Fantastic work, and try not to burn yourself out :)

“Launching shops through a Mac gun is a very original idea” Battlestar Galactica tube launch has entered the chat

the ship-to-ship battles were some of my favorite parts from the novels. Awesome video!

H6 Juggernaut vs AT-AT UNSC Autumn Class Cruiser vs Imperial 2 Class Star Destroyer CIS Super Tank vs AT-AT

Awesome video! I'd love to see more like it in the future, like maybe one on the Mass Effect capital ship weapons or maybe the Star Trek ones

Anyone else create and play out battles like this in their minds before they go to sleep?

Versus list 1) Han Solo vs Sargent Major Avery Junior Johnson 2) Doom Guy vs Boba Fett 3) Interstellar Alliance vs Galactic Empire 4) Warlock class Destroyer vs UNSC cruiser 5) Resurgent class Battlecruiser vs Mandator III Star Dreadnaught 6) Harrower class Dreadnaught vs Venator Star Destroyer 7) Eternal Empire vs Galactic Empire, Total War 8) Minbari Federation vs Covenant, Fleet battle 9) Can the Galactic Empire survive a full scale Zerg invasion? 10) Protos Carrier vs Covenant Assault Carrier 11) Protos Mother ship vs Executor SSD 12) 2M Saber class Repulsor Tank vs Armored Assault Tank 13) Behemoth class Battlecruiser vs Imperial Star Destroyer

Loved the video and glad you enjoyed warfleet and everything it brought with it, awesome use of our scale chart btw. If I had to mention one thing about the video though...Shiva nukes! they were used quite a bit in strategic ways and are one of the most commonly mentioned nukes in space combat in canon.

Another video of yours got me thinking about how various factions would stack up against the three entity classes I made in a game design I came up with back in 2012. You're a treasure trove of information! :D

Hey. Can you do one on Battletech/Mechwarrior?

I'm really glad that you're now seeking advice when it comes to universes that you're unfamiliar with. You could still improve on other aspects but I believe this is your best halo video yet. Even if that isn't saying much but still good job.

I appreciate the minor effort to keep halo closer to science fiction than science fantasy!

Please make more of these Halo lore videos! They are brilliant and I hope they are interesting to write.

Another fantastic video. I especially love this one

i needed this vid thank you so much

Star Wars Galaxy Vs StarGate Milky way Galaxy Replicators PLEASE!

8:10 Whoah, whoah, whoah. 3000 tons at 4% c? That's .. crazy. Assuming they fire the projectile over about a tenth of a second, that's: 2721554 kg * 11991698.32 m/s / 0.1 = 3.26 * 10^15 Joules. That is an insane amount of energy. To put that in perspective, the Sun generates about 3.8 * 10^26 Joules per second. So, that's about a billionth of all the Sun's energy in a second. If you are using nuclear H-H fusion (Hydrogen to Helium), you'd need to fuse about 1606 kg of raw Hydrogen to get that much energy. (H-H Joules per fuse: 6.7 * 10^-14, and 1H is .0167 * 10^-24 kg) Or, with some Googling, it appears that across the planet Earth approximately 3.9 * 10^20 Joules of energy was produced over all of 2013. That one shot would take about one ten-thousandth of all the energy the human race produced in 2013. With that much power at their command, I do not see why the USNC does not use plasma weapons. Plasma is just any matter heated into an ionized gas. High-energy and high-temperature plasmas should be child's play if you can easily generate that much power on a single station fast enough to be used as a weapon. Even if not, it should be no trouble for humanity to set up a crazy powerful EM field to deflect the Covenant plasma weapons. Magnetic forces repel corrsponding to their field strengh, and with that much power to pump in to a field generator, they should be able to bat away any plasmic projectiles with ease.

This was pretty awesome

Mac: Big Fuck You Railgun Energy Pr-*Ahem* "Plazma Lance": Big beam of light.

Your vids are so good keep it up bro your the best

I love your Halo vids, dude! Keep it up! You should do a realistic video on UNSC small arms. I would love to help with the research.

I'm going to use this video to make halo ships in cosmoteer using ABH mod

The Yuuzhan Vong vs the Covenant. The Rebel fleet at Scarif vs the the UNSC'S earth defense fleet. The Empires fleet at Endor vs the Covenant fleet of Retribution.

i waited so much for warfleet to come out :3!

Finally, someone who knows the difference between a coilgun and a railgun instead of mindlessly obfuscating them. *NICE!* *Loved* the video.

I pre ordered the book and it was awesome! I would recommend it to any Halo Lore fan. I was bummed though because the CSO super-carrier was not included.

ik this video was made 4 years ago but this was really helpful, you just earnt a sub from me!

I love Halo, thanks!

7:55 The ships look like literal guns.

Eckhart another great video. Tech lore is something I just eat up 🤩😋

Woohoo! Lots of research went into the video.

elite honour guard (halo 2/halo wars 2) vs imperial royal guards (star wars) 1v1 then squad. Banished (halo wars 2) vs first order (star wars)

Mandator class II vs Mediator class star cruiser I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!! + Nice video as i dont know that much about HALO

I just wanna mention, even though this won't be seen, that the giant energy projector used by Covenant capital ships early on may not have been dual-mode at all. It wouldn't be the first time they used something originally meant for excavation as a weapon and then later created a weapon based on it. The original Scarab from Halo 2 carried an excavation laser and was used in war, later being replaced by a Scarab designed specially for warfare, seen first in Halo 3.

If there is a number on the amount of energy projectors/torpedoes on an assualt carrier, just triple the amount to get the amount on the super carrier

You should have used the battle scene in The Fall of Reach movie in your video. It explins some of the ship weapons in battle.

*Warhammer 40k vs Pokemon*

Star Wars versus idea: Halo UNSC Pillar of Autumn (not a regular halcyon) versus a MC80a Cruiser. (11th try) Also, an idea for galactic versus: UNSC vs the Red Legion from Destiny 2, with the Almighty super weapon included.

Wraith (Stargate) vs Galactic Empire (Star Wars) BC-304 Daedalus-class Battlecruiser (Stargate, Post-Unending, No ZPM) vs Imperial Escort Fleet (Star Wars) BC-304 USS Daedalus (Stargate, Pre-Unending, No ZPM) vs SSV Normandy SR-2 (Mass Effect)

Swords of Sanghelios [halo] vs rebel alliance [Star Wars]

Forerunner (Halo) vs. a United Warhammer Universe (Warhammer 40k)

Usual unsc tactics were first do a massed Mac strike which would either take out the target or take out the target's shield which after the mac's are fired archer pods and nukes were fired

I got the book, it was pretty good. My only complaint is that it's too short! lol Some more detailing to some of the designs would've been nice, too, though. Only special ships got full detail with color and sections really. Still worth the money, though.

10:58 i had so much trouble trying to find that clip

Unsc spirit of fire will always be my favorite but I've always wondered what the interior looks like because it's a reffited colony ship

You missed quite a few UNSC ship weapons: Howler missiles? Rapier missiles? Matos pulse laser turrets? ship mounted EMP cannon? Hornet nuclear anti-ship mines? Onager/mini-mac deck guns? Lance and Scythe short range air/space defense systems?

thanks Eck first time commenting love the starwars halo vids but you you missed the slipspace bomb I give a thumbs up and sub

this video just gave me an idea. For a versus. Yautja vs Covenant land battle. Imperium of man vs Covenant.

I feelthere is some UNSC naval coil guns that can take down a covenant ship. I like the Spitfire or the Breakwater

SDF Olympus Mons VD UNCS Piller of Autum (19th time trying)

great video! what is the background music?

And their strenght ius measured in...kilojoules XD "Like most Covenant weapons, the pulse laser turrets are rated in the kilowatt range". *Halo: Contact Harvest* page 27 XDD

Hi @EckhartsLadder! I just subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago and was very entertained with your comparison across several sci-fi universe. I would definitely love it if you would do a comparison of Warhammer 40k's Imperium of Man vs. Starcraft's terran faction.

MK2 (Modified) MAC is the Triple Shot variant, that uses a lighter ferric-Tungsten Carbide Projectile to decrease the amount of energy use to fire it, also the capacitors recycle the energy to allow it to fire multiple times at full charge, this variant of MAC was Designed to Cripple a covenant ships shields before finish it of with Archer missiles.

In the novels the plasma torpedoes were always magnetically guided. It led to some very interesting maneuvers by the UNSC.

8:12 - 8:17 for anyone wondering, the kinetic energy of that MAC round (y'know, the 3,000 ton one that's fired at 4% the speed of light?) is almost 46.77 Gigatons of TNT

*Farsight enclaves vs Swords of Sangheilos*

Can't wait for the plasma torpedo wars

I believe the novels when describing a UNSC ship getting hit by one of those it says it boils away the hull.

Old Republic Hammerhead vs Republic Dreadnought class Cruiser Xwing vs Tie Hunter Covenant Elite/Brute Honor Guard vs Emperor's Royal Guard or the CIS Magna Guard

I don't know if you mentioned it or maybe I missed it. But another downside to the covie weapons are that they are very crude in energy direction, meaning that in the First Strike (I believe) Cortana was able to focus the plasma into beams, not just blobs of plasma that had more surgical precision. Pretty sure she also cut open another ship with the beams as well.

My absolute favorite unsc ship is the Abstract Endurance and my favorite covenant ship is the Ardent prayer and for forerunners it would be the anodyne spirit

Please do the Protoss vs the Covenant, the Flood vs the Zerg, and UNSC vs the Terran Dominion

Flood Vs XenoMorphs

"Thanks to -whoever he is- ; He was really invalueble"

Could you make a video about the history of the human-covenant war listing all the battles and their outcomes for both sides?

I have an idea for a match up but it seems kind of random but here it goes: 1 Steel Striders Norge class battleship vs The USS Montanna, The Steel Striders are a faction from the game From The Depths which is a game where you must build ships whith as much firepower, armour and speed to destroy the 7 factions that inhabit Neter (the primary planet for the game). All the research is on the ship but if needed to I can do some of it for you.

You should do a top 5 Star Wars tanks. Like the t2b or supertank

Halo Four Runner Vs StarGate Ancients!

You should do Star trek weapons types

For one entry for the Star Wars Versus series... can we see the Galactic Empire taking on Skynet from the Terminator series?

Please do more Halo lore

The fact UNSC uses mass drivers, is the most practical and functional experts clearly point the inumerous advantage of mass drivers against energy based weapons including plasma based

The Vong vs the Borg, please.

I want a pure star wars starship battle ,leave aside the cross universe matchups for at least one episode.

Daedalus class (post-Unending, no ZPM) vs. Imperial II class Star Destroyer

Gosh you voice the detailing and the Simpson wave music 💦 to much keep the great work!!

Never realized that Halo got so cool ships.

Eckhartsladder are u going to make a video on the different types of halo ships and the number of fighters and personnel on board the ship.

FUCKIN LOVE THE SONGGG AT THE END specially when I'm stoned

Punic Super Carriers need to have a comeback.

You should do the same kind of list for 40k ship weapons. With some kind of guest 40k (battlefleet gothic?) expert perhaps if you don't think you can pull it off by yourself?

Tbh quick question perhaps you should have made a nod to the slibspace bomb although it was an improvised weapon system

Wanna know a fun fact? Not only would a nuke creat an EMP, but the amount of radiation coming from the blast could cause sever damage to a ship IF said ship is kilometre away.

Here's an interesting one. Flood vs Yuuzhan Vong Or Alternatively Flood vs Species 8472

Question why didn't the forerunners glass the flood or was that possible it seems very effective for that purpose

Corbulo's elevator attack looked like a lancer.

I've always felt that the UNSC should have laser Point-defense on their ships. Prowlers have pulse lasers, and really, the Spartan lasers are pretty much begging to be mounted on vehicles and starships. Just make a battery of big ones and boom. UNSC point defence is now on par with that of the Covenant.

Assuming one ton is 907 kilograms, the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s, and that a megaton is 4.184e+15 joules, that means an orbital defense platform mac has a yield of 46768.849 megatons for a single shot. That's a lot of firepower.