Which was why I thought "Broadsword", "Claymore", or "Halberd" were more appropriate names.

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Actually it would be a funny name to have a play on words.

Like: Hal-bird instead of Halberd. A lot of people wouldn't get it though.

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Paragon:

Reserved for future use.

Does anyone know why Paragon said this in the Read Before Posting thread? And, why he changed his sig?

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Thunder,

man seriously this game looks amazing (you probably get that a lot), even though it was just a trailer. I cant wait till it comes out, but a couple of questions: why only monthly updates? And please read the stuff i wrote in the ideas for the game section!

 :p Tuek

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Finally, someone who knows where the right place is to express their excitment.

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Does anyone know the Release dates for Halo Wars?

 

this game looks amazing totally excited for it but a name for the ship you might want to think of Katana, since in the unsc military calander it will be coming together of the entire world and a mixing of cultures so the orental cultures would be a influence into the military and deffinatly design some military craft, s and a katana is a small samuri sword that is known for its strength and druablity so you might want to think of that as a name just my opion

no idea when it comes out, hopefully so could be the game that makes the Xbox 360 that is until halo 3 comes out

It would be cool to see that Bomber also used in Halo3, at least shown in the background taking out Covies.

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I like the art, it looks incredibly detailed. However, one thing I'm noting is that the naming doesn't seem to be very creative anymore... Otherwise, I like this new vehicle very much. :) 

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Well developers are running out of ideas lol, everything is copyrighted or branded as "un-orginal" so most units you see here you may accuse it of being "un-orginal". Frankly speaking as long as the gameplay and story is good I wouldnt mind the bomber being called the "605TER uberpwnage bomber."

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Totally agree anubis. I mean personally i think the name is cool and couldnt care less if it is unoriginal. When im playing halo wars im not gona notice silly things like that ill just be blowing up covies! Anyone played viva pinata? EVERYTHING in that has silly names but its still a cool game (shutup i know its for 7yr olds )

Thunder:

Halo Wars Update 11.15.06

Hey guys – I’m just jumping in here and give you all a quick update on Halo Wars and what we have in store for you.  First of all, who the heck am I? I’m the Community Manager here at Ensemble Studios and I work on a variety of ES websites, including this one.  Mainly I act as a hub for information from the developers to fans and vice versa.

To kick this off, we have got to extend congratulations to the team at Bungie on the fifth anniversary of Halo! They have been a generous and supportive group in our work on Halo Wars, so it’s great to see such amazing success go to those guys. 

As for us, I’m sure you all want to see and hear more about Halo Wars.  First of all, thank you for the suggestions, ideas, and enthusiastic posts that you have been making in our forums.  It’s been very exciting for all of all of us at work on the game to see the great reaction that Halo Wars has received from gamers thus far, and especially Halo fans.  We’re still in early development on Halo Wars, so we can’t say much about the game until some time in the New Year, but we can’t wait for you to see it in all of its glory.  What we want to do is start sharing more of our early work with you all in monthly updates.  These updates will likely start off small like this one and get more elaborate as we get further into development, when we can share more information and art from the game.  For now, check out our concept art gallery (http://www.halowars.com/images.html) for a new kick ass piece of concept art from our art team, and we’ll have a new update on the game for you in December.

Concept Art Description:

UNSC “Shortsword” bomber - A ground based atmospheric bomber that is used primarily for short range, heavy payload, runs against ground targets.  Primarily developed as a low altitude bomber the shortsword has proven to be very effective against Covenant installations.

sweet man just plain sweet

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I don't understand people..

 

Halo Wars is a halo game and everything in the haloverse was written and designed by bungie. The idea of the shortsword as well as it's uses and it's appearance was created by bungie. The fictional information about the shortsword as well as it's appearance is problay as old as the longswords.

 

While this game is being made by ensemble there basing it upon bungie's halo. The storyline of halowars will be directly based from stories from the halo bible that were more then likely written 5 or more years ago. All vehicles are vehicles that were designed by bungie many making it into the games or novels. All weapons in halowars were created by bungie and most of them made it into the games or novels. Same with main charecters or any other revelence.

Every vehicle name are related to there class.

 

Covenant vehicles: Ghost , Wraith , Phantom,Banshee ,Shadow ,and spectre . All supernatural related names.

 Human land vehicles : Warthog , Mongoose , and Scorpion tank. All names of land creatures.

 Human air  vehicles(Transports and fighters):  Skyhawk , Pelican , and Albastross. All names of birds. Following this pattern a 1 manned human air vehicle would likely be called one of the following names: Hummingbird , Robin , Dove , Gull , woodpecker , Crow , Swallow ,Warbler , Cardinal , Vireo , or a sparrow.

Human Air vehicles (Bombers) : Longsword ,Broad sword , and Shortsword . All names of classifications of swords.

 

Any ways can't wait to the next update. Hope to see this game in late 2007 or early 2008. Also to the guy who said halo 3 will be forgotten by december thats a foolish statement. As Halo  2 was the top xbox live played game from it's release date in november of 2004 untill a week after gears of wars release in november of 2006. For two years Halo 2 was the number 1 xbox game. You honestly expect halo 3 to be wiped clean from peoples memories in december of 2007. Which will only be 5 months after halo 3 is released. Or less then half a year. Hell Halo 2 will likely be number 1 for a while longer in spring of 2007. As new halo 2 maps will be released then as well as the overwelming hype for halo 3.

Actually, UNSC dropships are only named after seabirds, so others would be called "Kingfishers" or "Cormorants."

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