i think i found it, i've commented it in the original vid :3

Bro it’s a French word and no one knows where it came from. You pronounced it one of the two acceptable ways according to Wikipedia. Don’t listen to those dinguses. I bet that translation would be lost 500+ years into the future anyway. They probably don’t even know there were other ways to pronounce the word way back now.

@christopherpugnetti5827 I'm saying, I looked it up and that was the pronunciation I heard 🙄

@@djcanimations5111 Exactly. Anyone complaining about it can get bent.

Iroquois can be pronounced either way, everyone knows what you're talking about, and it's not that huge a difference.

Ahhh this made me laugh xD "AND HERE COMES THE ONE-TWO" *fires MAC rounds*

HAAA no way 🤣🤣🤣

Id change it from squirrel to rabbit if you know what I mean lol

more info: before this event, Keys was passively despised or looked down by the high brass of the military for an incident, during his training days if I am not mistaken. it was an experiment that went wrong, getting some of the participants killed or gravely bounded. and he never snitched, even if others did during the subsequent investigations. his determination gained the interest of Dr Helsey, seeing the man could keep a secret, and so she chose him to accompany her in her secret project of studying the potential candidates for the Spartan Project that created John 117 and all his ''brothers and sisters''. due to this, Helsey managed to give him a promotion that allow him to command the Iroquois. this battle and the following conflict between the reinforcements of the UNSC and Covenant would ignite some of the biggest ''canon events'' of those years: Autumn conflict -after the victory of the UNCS reinforcements over the Covenant reinforcements that came hours later, a covenant device would secretly attach itself to the Iroquois and transmit to the Covenant information of its locations and all those others it had been since attaching itself to the hull. with that, the Covenant discovered the location of the planet Reach, which immediately led to the events of the first game.

I needed this, thank you! I'm working on the next battle animation right now

I really liked both the polished animation and the simplified one. The latter is so cute

I don't believe in space And have taken too many drugs to believe in something so ignorant. So this looks like a bunch of silly bullshit to me.

Wasn't he?? :D

Unrealistic though. The Covenant ships just wait their turn like bad guys in a martial arts movie, rather than all firing on the Iroquois at once.

@@oxymoron02 Why send everyone in the room to swat a fly? To the covenant assigning a pair of frigates would have already been overkill.

@@falcore91 very good analogy. im surprised they even sent the frigates after them, 1 light destroyer was no threat to them. Could of just left it flying around orbit while they commenced the invasion.

@@oxymoron02In real life it’s a lot harder to coordinate an attack on a superior target, just look up - video of a spear vs sword 1v3, or details on the assassination of Caesar, if the target is stronger than the attackers individually, nobody wants to be first person to get bodied, a group tends to only attack together when the person is on the ground or cannot fight back, and any slight mismatch in timing just leads to the target beating up one person before the other

yoooooooo why yall gassing me up like this man 😄😄😁😁

Pretty sure the 'laser' wasn't the MAC, but some other weapon.

@@dj11o9er Nope, the lasers were indeed the Infinity’s SMACs, the infinity is not equipped with any laser weaponry with the only UNSC ship to do so being the Anlace and Mulsanne frigates to my knowledge

What the fuck. But that couldn't have been a MAC... MACs don't have fucken beams!

@@dj11o9er yeah but when has 343 ever made something that makes sense

He did flip it around, the bridge is on the top of the UNSC ship, it would've been decapitated and lost with all hands, it's mentioned in the book that they spun around

Si he did all that. Inverted?

@@adamstern5116 not really there is no up and down in space just orientation

Yeah what was that brief mutiny about?

@@Sidewinder11771 Man thought Keyes was crazy and didnt wanna die. Broke under pressure.

Actually a remarkably mature and humble decision from the covenant, who you'd usually expect to just get madder and dumber the closer they get to defeat

Actually it's part of the Covenant's tactics, which Keyes picks up on later in the book, which is basically "deceive and distract" since the Covenant are willing to sacrifice ships and entire fleets if it means their goals are achieved, and in this particular battle, their goals were met, which was to acquire Forerunner relics. The second battle only started because now the Covenant needed to get the relics off the planet and again, the Covenant were simply distracting the humans with a pointless (in their eyes) battle while the real work was being done

If I'm command a fleet that has clear technological and numerical superiority and suddenly come across an particular enemy that destroys 3/4ths of my forces with some very unusual maneuvers then I'd become VERY concerned. Great job on keys part even if it was a last ditch effort.

Agreed, can think of several scenes just in the book "Halo First Strike" I'd love to see visualized like this, though some of those will need even more challenging effects

Glad to help! :D

I'm glad I could help clear it up! Thank YOU!

hold on- what cannon fodder?

OH MY GOD I FOUND IT YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT??? HLBDSYIPBABUDFPOAUFW PAUWAAIFYHYHAWAAAAAHHHHH I CANT

@@djcanimations5111 Could I be enlightened ?

@@kriegertechpriest7011 www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-encyclopedic-enlightenment Scroll to the bottom 😁😁😁

@@djcanimations5111 NO FUCKING WAY BRO! YOU GOT SEEN!

At what point did the Iroquois eject its reactor? I just read through the passage (and the damage report) and didn't see anything about a missing reactor.

@@djcanimations5111 during the sling shot around the planet moments before confronting the 2 corvettes.

@@djcanimations5111 the Mac systems began slowly losing charge as well.

@@cyborgsoldier117 I'm reading it now- Right after destroying the destroyer (heh) they fired the thrusters and then went into the slingshot. The engine coolant failed and they vented the fusion reactor PLASMA, but not the reactor. Then they fired the chemical thrusters to break orbit, detonated the nuke, and fired the MACs at the frigates. I'm not seeing anything about dumping the entire reactor, and the repair section in the next chapter says nothing about the reactor needing to be completely replaced.

@@djcanimations5111 ok I stand corrected. The reactor plasma was dumped. It’s been years since I read the first book. Also there’s an audiobook called the fall of reach on KZfaq. Go to part 6 Video at the 1:03:50 mark and you’ll hear it.

I'm working on one! 87% done :D

I dunno why it did either! 😃 Glad you're here though! Thanks!

No, you're right. I definitely won't read this. 😁 but no thank you man! I pored over reach, first Strike and onyx myself, over and over again 😅 I just realized my halo animations are all from those 3 books 😶

You're not wrong, that's the way the text is in my copy of "The Fall Of Reach" that I grabbed in 2004. The undercarriage of the Iroquois was abraded almost entirely through as a result, which is what I'd expect from running a ship over another one at such tremendous speed. I'm not sure if there was an edit made in the revised book later on or if the top/bottom difference was an "oopsie" from the animator, but no matter what this animation was pretty damned cool! I'm not going to let that one thing ruin this awesome creative piece! 🙂

@@MadMac5 I have the revised edition from 2011 and they didn't change that detail.

@@Turbofurby There were a lot of things I was trying to figure out how to do in Blender, while also making sure the timing and everything worked together. I decided I'd make it a bit easier on myself and not try to rotate Iroquois belly up.

I read it again just now- The bottom of the Iroquois grazed the "prow" or front, in modern nautical terms, of the destroyer. So the ship would have rotated like 90 degrees and flown right in front of the destroyer... but then it said that it nudged down slightly. Not sure which way is down in that scenario lol, so like... some artistic freedom, i guess

@@djcanimations5111 either way the animation is still great

Covenant ships detection systems are radically sensitive to the point the Elites had a habit of turning off systems due to annoyance of constant alarms that it hindered combat performance. All Covenant ships can detect anything with it's radiological scanning systems at light speed range that not even ONI crude cloaking systems on their prowlers can work 100% of the time. Most likely they turned theirs off during this engagement because the plasma torpedoes were firing is giving off blinding amount signals being detected by their systems.

@Diabetic_troglodyte6152 working on something else too 😁

Thank you so much Doc!

Also- MAN the Fall of Reach is a SERIOUS battle. that's the kind of thing that takes a couple of years and several people

'expanse-like' ... this book was penned in 2001 💀

@@Hadgerz The Expanse is one of the best visual depictions of hard sci-fi space combat we have, that's what makes it sort of unique. I could also say this depiction reminds me of COADE, which is super cool because I've never imagined Halo battles in this way. Space is appropriately vast, ships aren't engaging each other at point blank ranges or firing broadside at each other, velocity is actually a factor (they don't magically stop), and orbital mechanics appears to actually be used. It reminds me that Halo was intended to be hard sci-fi.

@@michaelhenry3234 But people are stupid and big numbers hard.

In-lore, space combat is exactly like that in The Expanse in Halo. Covenant ships being superior in just about every way is why the UNSC have to develop new strategies & more powerful engines to maneuver.

@@tristanbackup2536 Ur dumb shut up.

Thank you! I might do the rest of the battle next. We'll see.

"Hold my pipe..."

Thats... wow. Thank you!

I like to imagine this trick probably impressed more then a few elites who heard about it. At least the ones who weren't drinking the Great Journey Koolaid too much

Thank you! :D

That IS one I've thought about. I'd have to really take my time with it.

@@djcanimations5111 Art can not be rushed.

YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD Yeah no stay tuned, for real 👀

@@djcanimations5111 Holy Halo, Batman! You just got a new subscriber.