Thread 717473951

A Spitfire would curbstomp this piece of shit.

I'd love to fly a banshee irl

>>717475980
It's be perfect for a daily commute

>>717473951 (OP)
False. The banshee has an extremely tight turn radius and literally no stall speed. The banshee would shit on a spitfire in a one or two circle dogfight with ease.

>>717473951 (OP)
Per in game performance yes
Per lore performance no
Many such cases

>>717477010
All the spit has to do is extend away since the banshee moves at a moderate jogging pace.

>>717473951 (OP)
A Spitfire can only manage 15 seconds of sustained fire before running out of ammo and has far less accurate guns than anything in Halo. It would be lucky to even knock out the energy shields before it had to retreat

isn't the banshee the functional equivalent of an ultralight aircraft borked into the CAS role which makes this statement not really impressive

>>717478127
Banshees don't have shields

>>717473951 (OP)
99% of Covenant weaponry is nerfed in the games for playability. Even in games you can see how powerful their stuff is like in Reach where all you need is one needler rifle round on a spartan with no shield.

What about this?

>>717473951 (OP)
the in-game version? yea, absolutely.
its only slow in game because the maps are small

>>717473951 (OP)
Yes. That's the point. Humanity wins on land, sea, and air, but none of it maters because they always lose in space and once the stars are lost everything under them burns.

>>717478376
Current gen Banshees do come with shields

>>717478418
Anything with energy shielding is going to fuck basically anything.

>>717478546
>Humanity wins on land, sea, and air
Not always the case depending on covenant numbers, there are some engagements where they opted to just drown UNSC forces in cannon fodder and they didn't have the means to really adapt against it. Especially if it was brutes who elites loved throwing against heavy positions in meat grinder waves.

>>717473951 (OP)
Helicopters beat prop planes at low altitude, and the banshee can hover in place so it would dab all over the spitfire.

>>717473951 (OP)
Stop thinking and just enjoy the pew pew pew blue ball bullets

>>717477010
Bullets move faster than a plasma bolt. The covenant portrayed as some super army is stupid since their army consists of weapons that shoot slow and glow in the dark bullets make it easy to track where the fuck the fire came from

>>717477478
All a Banshee has to do is turn to face the Spitfire when it's making an attack. A single plasma bolt would cut that antique in half

>>717479150
Humanity was fighting a fraction of the covenant and almost lost

>>717479150
>glow in the dark bullets make it easy to track where the fuck the fire came from
Apparently tracers don't exist in your universe

>>717473951 (OP)
we give the Covenant a pass on the Banshee because the Ghost exists and is eternally goated

>>717479409
>explodes
>...
>start jittering
>explodes again
KINO

>>717479150
Call me crazy but I'm pretty sure I remember nearly all covie weapons having different velocities on plasma weapons. Both for small-arms and vehicles. Not to mention their space ships which undoubtedly have to be comparable to UNSC missile speeds at the very least to fight across however many kilometers in space ship vs ship combat usually happens at.
So I think a banshee wouldn't have an issue fighting a fast-moving fighter. Hell, you can take damage in Halo Reach's fighter section when just banshees are around. And thats a super advanced craft, not an airplane from ww2.

It's a common trope for visual sci-fi to have absolute dogshit vehicles outside of their starships.

>>717480006
Hi crazy.

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>>717480471
Guys, I have some bad news about magnum grunt...

>>717479150
Actually no, the Covenant is presented as weak in terms of their ground forces, it's their absolute naval superiority that is why they are winning

A Halo battle royale with ghosts and warthhog and so on would save the series from obscurity.

RADICAL!

>>717480671
its over...
just let the flood win

>>717479379
Tracers exist to direct fire. You put it in a machine gun that's actively suppressing enemy infantry so that the squad can kill whatever you're directing fire at.
Now think long and hard in that walnut sized brain of yours why no military on the planet has ever outfitted every single soldier with nothing but tracers.

>>717479150
Akshually all the covenant weapons are shit, they're basically religious ritual combat weapons. Why the faction in shitfinite are still using them? I don't know

>>717481769
My group and I would end every night with a bunch of destruction derby matches. All those drunken nights I spent doing this with the boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P49GxZeq9oM

>>717477010
Why would a Spitfire get into a turn fight with something that performs like a Sopwith Camel? Just do hit and run attacks, it has no defense against that.
>>717479214
Its plasma bolts move awfully slow. I think the Spiftire's guns outrange it. Even the .303s.

>>717478785
>Helicopters beat prop planes at low altitude
Where are you getting this from? Why?

>>717483412
>implying they didn't outfit fighter planes with tracers
Of course not every single bullet is a tracer, but they're frequent enough that they're going to be noticable

>>717485678
>it has no defense against that
Get out of the line of fire? The spitfire is nowhere near agile enough to keep something in it's sight that can turn 180 degrees in a second

>>717480787
I wonder how influenced by Stargate the writers at Bungie were. Because the Covenant vs UNSC dynamic is just a less extreme version of the Goa'uls vs SGC dynamic.

>>717485924
That didn't stop the biplanes and triplanes of the interwar period from being massacred by fast moving monoplanes.

>>717481769
they were working on this for like 5 years but never got off ground iirc, probably because Infinite’s engine is shit

>>717477370
This

>>717473951 (OP)
A Sopwith Camel would give this thing a serious fight.

>>717485950
Not as much as Mass Effect was influenced by Babylon 5.

>>717486026
I think the whatthefuckium armor would protect a banshee engine and pilot a little better than a sheet of canvas can

>>717475980
If you got a pilot's license you could go fly helicopters and get paid for it, they're about equivalent in role and performance to a banshee. Of course you wouldn't get to blow things up, but you would make lots of money.

>>717486026
Even they can't turn on a dime

>>717486170
The banshee can be shot down by small arms fire.

>>717486225
They get pretty close. Have you seen how tight a Dr 1's turning circle is?

>>717486219
Realistically, how do you counter this?

ITT: Shee noobs

>>717486237
If you really want to get into an argument over the banshee's survivability, shoot at one with a hornet. The auto cannon has the same caliber as the spitfire's better guns. Keep in mind that the it has bullet magnetism, no turbulence to contend with and a far higher turning speed than any plane known to man

>>717479379
"Tracers work both ways" is literally an old Army meme dating before the internet

>>717486453
You can also shoot the Banshee down with an assault rifle, or nail the pilot with a magnum if you're a good shot.

>>717486632
A spartan could do the same to a Spitfire. It would only take one bullet to penetrate the fuselage and hit something critical

>>717487008
So a few rounds from a Spitfire's .303s could take down a Banshee.

*dakka dakka dakka*