User blog:Norman-123/Tactical Idiocy in Halo: Episode 1: WHY IS HALO 3 SO HARD!!!

Just yesterday, when a sudden surge of rain on a supposedly sunny day put an end to a planned beach party, me and a friend were playing Halo 3 campagin. We were playing the level "The Covenant", and my friend kept dying on the fight with the two Scarabs.

"Why do we even have to do this? Once the shields are down, can't they just carpet bomb the place?"

- My friend, having a spaz attack after getting shot down by a Scarab.

Now, despite the comment said in a fit of rage, he had a point. I ended up thinking about it, and I realized that he was right. Having a (rather pathetic) vehicle convoy charge at the Truth's postion seems rather stupid, as apposed to an airstrike. It's not that the skies were too heavy-if you care to look up after you take down shield generator #3, and during the Scarab fight, it would seem that the Hornets are cleaning up the last of the banshees. They don't need to send MC and Arbiter in to the citadel to kill truth personally-they could simply carpet bomb the area, or failing that, glass that area of the ark?

The same goes for the next two levels-Cortana and Halo. Why must we journey into flood infested High Charity, retrive a most likely rampant AI, and then go onto a half-finished halo ring, fire the incomplete halo, which structually damages the halo and destroys the ark? Why can't they just carpet bomb or glass the place? It's not that the Elites have a problem with destroying the Ark, as the don't mind firing the incomplete halo, which destroys both the ring and the ark. If they're willing to do that, why can't they just carpet bomb/glass the place?

Chapter Two: Why did Forge have to die =(