User blog comment:Tuckerscreator/Wars Never Ends/@comment-26685181-20121004012944/@comment-26685181-20121005070908

Regarding a Forerunner faction - really, everything feels like it would fall into place with them. You already have some fantastic units that I would love to control - the Enforcer from Halo 2 especially feels like a Vulture equivalent, and the ability it has to simply reach out and CRUSH a vehicle would be fantastic to see. Then we have the various Sentinel types as the infantry-equivalents - the Protectors and Aggressors as light and medium infantry, swarms of tiny Constructors as repair and construction units, and the larger units for vehicle and aircraft equivalents - especially this bad mofo, perhaps as their super unit. Contrasting with the Flood, the Forerunners haven't really had too many ground-borne units, excluding the new Promethean units. It would certainly make Forerunner/Flood fights an interesting sight!

Even metafictionally, the Forerunners seem better suited to Halo Wars' original gameplay mechanics than either the UNSC or the Covenant. The UNSC's construction method was interesting, and the Covenant's use of teleportation was interesting, but you can really believe that the Forerunners would be able to spin a building literally out of thin air, through a combination of hardlight and nanotechnology, assembling them from microscopic materials.

Depending on hardlight shields, the Forerunner faction would be very interesting from a combat perspective - literally each unit would behave like a Spartan, with a protective "bubble". Once popped, though, the machinery inside would be more vulnerable to attack than other factions, allowing balance. Prometheans use short-range translocation for attack, which I think would be fascinating in an RTS, and would allow the Forerunner faction to move groups of units in a similar but alternative way to the dropships the UNSC or Covenant use.

And let's face it, dead or not, who wouldn't want the soothing voice of Tim Dadabo to serenade you with "All Units," "Local Units," and the old favourite, "Your Base is Under Attack"? :D