The Seven Hour War

[El_Vikingo]

No... XD.. obviousy you'll have to study for it before hand, but many people seem to have a book in their hand 5 minutes before they go into hte exam. They had all year to revise so what s the point in the last five minutes?!!?!

[BlackwaterEddie]

The Citadels didnt land, they were built once the Combine had control over the world.

Judging by their weaponry id guess that they softened up earth from space, taking out key targets of importance (US air force bases, UK air force bases, etc) and other military sites that posed a threat.

And well probably find out alot more regarding the 7 hour war in Episode 2

[Thunder]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]RikiRude

While on the subject of the combine, something I have wondered. Are things like the striders and gunships organic or mechanical things? Or are they machines that just highly represent some kind of animals? Because the noises and way they act are so animalistic. and i never notice like, little windows with combine soldiers driving them or whatever.

id say bio mechanical

hey problem grow them and roll them off a production line, i cant see civil protection troops driving them as they are just recruited humans.

but no dobut we'll see more about it later on as EA knock out some more eps

[Expendable Grunt]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]RikiRude

While on the subject of the combine, something I have wondered. Are things like the striders and gunships organic or mechanical things? Or are they machines that just highly represent some kind of animals? Because the noises and way they act are so animalistic. and i never notice like, little windows with combine soldiers driving them or whatever.

and as far as this comvo goes i bet the citidel landed, then they immediatly sent out gun ships/striders while also launching headcrab canisters. I mean head crab canisters seem like they would be just about enough to do quite a bit of damage. im sure 40-60% of humans in major areas were taken out by head crab launchers alone.

but what's strange is that head crab zombies attack combine. that seems weird. and where did ant lions come from? and what's their beef with combine? or are ant lions just something they kind of lost control of (hence the stomper things that keep them away)

Striders and the gunships with the one rearward rotor are biomechs. They grow them and inplant stuff to keep them under their control, implant weapons, etc.

The Ant Lions are the result of the portal storms. IIRC they raged all over earth (and to a lesser extent, still do rage) and brought in some of the creatures we see. Why we don't see any bullsquid or soundogs I don't know. I might be wrong on some of this though.

Headcrab zombies attack everything. They're not a combine thing; it's similar to sending wild lions into the enemy army. The animal will do a lot of damage, but at the risk of it happening to you. Generally they only launch these into areas they're not sending troops to anyway, or to areas where troops have been defeated. If I land 60 Headcrabs, and you manage to kill 30, that's still roughly 30 zombies walking around, doing more killing.

[[R-MOD]Bob_Marley]

Quite, and its considerubly easier to kill 30 zombies who (by and large) are slow and cant use guns rather than 30 heavily armed rebels in a defensive position.

And wheres my damn cookie?

[[R-CON]77SiCaRiO77]

why the combines send poison headcrabs? they become poison zombies and they are more hard to kill, also they have poison , AND you waste space , coz you need 3 headcrabs to make one poison zombie , and they are slow ....

wahts the point of the poison headcrab? :/

[daranz]

Originally Posted by Bob_Marley

Quite, and its considerubly easier to kill 30 zombies who (by and large) are slow and cant use guns rather than 30 heavily armed rebels in a defensive position.

And wheres my damn cookie?

I filed a requisition form, it's gonna take a while to process.

[[R-MOD]Bob_Marley]

Originally Posted by daranz

I filed a requisition form, it's gonna take a while to process.

Oh, fine. I'll go and play some GC while thats sorted...

[Thunder]

Originally Posted by Expendable Grunt

The Ant Lions are the result of the portal storms. IIRC they raged all over earth (and to a lesser extent, still do rage) and brought in some of the creatures we see. Why we don't see any bullsquid or soundogs I don't know. I might be wrong on some of this though.

thats correct, the bullsquids where pulled they where suppose to be shown in a longer train ride at the start but it got pulled.

head crabs are used by the combine dropped in arty shells before a main assualt, revanhom was caused by one of these shelling attacks, also the black/fast crabs are result of combine acquirements iirc

[RikiRude]

ahh thanks grunt!

and what are those creatures when you are in the (i dont even know what it's called, but the capsules that you ride in) they looked like they might of been bullsquids, but i saw them from above, so it was hard to tell.

i just started episode 1, so ill be caught up soon enough!