On beachhead there's a fine trick I found to get the scarab right from the beginning:
-Have just 1 spartan jack a wraith in the center covenant base.
-Do not send all your forces
-Cross the enemy base with that wraith(cannonfodder)
-When the wraith gets destroyed try not to lose your spartan and keep going to the scarab
-Once the spartan is near the scarab, pelican the rest of your forces to help you kill the flood guarding the scarab
-Jack the scarab and destroy the covie base.
(I did this on legendary so it'll defenitely work on heroic...)
Gamebattle tournaments are BULLSH-IT it should be GayBattles instead...