• Warthog Launch – (See picture)

  

  

  Piled like this, a hog can be launched across Sandtrap.

• Elephant Flipping – Use all possible explosives on 1 side of an elephant and blow them up. Alternatively, you can simply push a Scorpion tank into the Elephant and lift it up…

• Magic Carpet Ride – Spawn a crate, and have another player ride on top as you move it around

• Explosion Mania – Create a never ending explosion of fusion coils all over the map, then try to play the map against friends and see how long you can survive

• Monitor of Death – Be the monitor and deploy a tank, then throw it around the level and try to splatter the other players this can also be done by spawning a radio antenna and useing it like a bat, very fun.

• Grenade Hold – While not in monitor mode throw a grenade, but right after pressing the left trigger press up on the d-pad to go into monitor mode. If done correctly the grenade shouldn’t have been thrown. Then when you see an opponent, go back into normal mode and the grenade will be released and thrown. It works really well with plasma grenades but any kind works.

• Floating Objects – There are two ways to do this, first, set an object down onto an object a friend is holding (your friend’s object must be as big or bigger or it will be pushed through) and, once set down, have your friend sell the item they are selling, your item will remain in the air as though your friend’s object was still holding it up. Another way to do this is to have a friend shoot your object as you let go, it will remain in the air. Unfortunately these objects only stay in the air until moved. Fortunately some objects (such as teleporters) are unmovable, and can be used as floating platforms for other items, this allows for flying bases, although they are not always stable without multiple teleporters under them.

• Flying Vehicles – Normally if a player is driving a vehicle and a monitor picks it up the player is removed, but if the player is in the sideseat of the vehicle they will stay in it, able to shoot and move as usual as the vehicle is moved around the map. This can also be done with machine gun turrets.

• Unreachable Items – It is easy to place items in places where players cannot normally reach, this makes taunt power weapons, powerups, equipment and vehicles an easy and fun thing to place.

• Flying Elephant – By setting up large numbers of fusion cores and other explosives to spawn inside of elephants, it is possible to have them fly into the air, dropping explosives at random as they travel high above the map.

• Obstacle Course – If you have good (co-operative) friends, it’s fun to make obstacle courses, simply construct a path that requires teamwork to travel through (ie: steps that require stacking to get on top of, objects that need to be in one place and need to be moved to another along a narrow path, a wall of objects that needs the force of multiple players to move, etc.) and make the start a bomb spawn point and the end a bomb plant pad, this can easily be turned into a two team race.

• Obstruct the Windmill on Last Resort – This can be done by simply flooding the trench with large items, although it is impossible to stop the mill, the result is entertaining more often than not. If you want to get a bunch of stuff into place at once, try spawning it next to the trench and then using grav lifts to move it into place.

• Environment Battles – By making a gametype where player damage is 0% environment battles become strategic war games. Since players can still effect the environment (ie blow up fusion cores, light propane tanks, flip large objects etc.) the environment is a viable weapon.

• Block Grav Lifts – Blocking grav lifts with large objects like crates is hilarious. Whether the map is used for king of the hill or slayer, the obstruction is either a dangerous waypoint or a noob trap.

• Disable Door shields and turrets on Snowbound – Load the big underground entrance (the one near the shotgun) with all the explosives on the map (use a canvas version of the map preferably) then set instant respawn trip mines (with minimum runtime maxed out) near the pile, throw a bunch on and let it rip, it should disable the entire shield network and even shutoff the turrets

• Under Snowbound – place a mongoose under one of the low rocky overhangs (as close as you can to the edge) in the underground portion near the shotgun spawn. Then place two large crates near it making it only possible to reach it from behind. Enter the mongoose and then exit, but be quick to go into monitor mode, if you are too slow you will die. A way to make this easier is to have 1 person use this trick and place a 2 way teleporter above ground, and 1 on a ledge under the map.

• Trip Mine Launch – Make instant spawn trip mines near a vehicle (within trip mine throwing range) have a friend sit in the vehicle and not move. Plant as many trip mines as possible (when the game cant handle any more, the first ones you place will disappear in a small flash of blue light). After setting all the mines you can, blow them up, this is a cheap and quick way to launch something without a difficult to build explosives pile.

• Race Track – create a race track on any map, set the waypoints sequentially and add interesting obstacles, some cool things to do include making a waypoint in midair and a gravlift jump leading to it, and making a run through a wall of explosives.

• Target Practice – set up fusion cores above a man-cannon and have them fall at set intervals, works well on Valhalla when the trainee stands in the middle of the map with a sniper.

• Mid-air spawning – Stack crates, or spawn an especially tall object to reach the desired height, place any objects you want to spawn in mid-air on top of the pile, then delete the objects underneath. Works perfectly to create an artillery effect on D-day maps

• Secret Rooms – Block off a section with a tall sturdy wall, add a teleporter inside and place another one in some difficult to reach place on the map. Normally these rooms contain power weapons or multiple power ups making it a valuable room to control.

• Outside of Last Resort – In the main room of the power plant (the biggest one) fly up to the invisible barrier and force the monitor onto a ledge high above the power drainer spawn, once up there fly towards the turbine in the back of the base, once you cannot move anymore, lower yourself off the ledge and you should be behind the fence separating the main base from the turbine. USE BOOST THE ENTIRE TIME it makes the process alot easier. It also helps to add a teleporter back there so that other players can get to it without any hassle.

• Party Hog – It is possible to drive the transport warthog in The Pit by using forge. First set up a teleporter on the other side of the fence (if you set it on the ground it will disappear, so set it on one of the support bars on the fence) and then move the transport warthog against the fence with a large object (barriers work well) and then blow it up. When it respawns it will be drivable. It is possible to get the warthog across the fence. Be careful while in player mode on the outside of the fence since standing on the ground here for 5 seconds will cause you to suicide, this does not include standing on top of objects like the warthog, although it does include being in a vehicle on the ground.

• Outside of all maps – Fly to the barrier and spawn a receiver or two way node, once you get it placed where it stays put, spawn another two way node inside the map and go through it in monitor mode to avoid deadly falls

• Free-style Mancanon – Jump into a mancanon and switch to Monitor-mode and fly to the place that you wish to mancanon to. Change back to SPARTAN and you should be able to fly as though in a mancanon. Have fun and yell “Wee!”

• Rocket Racing – Spawn each 2-man team near a mongoose and a Rocket launcher on Sandtrap.Make the gametype king of the hill where the hill moves [ or territories, whichever you prefer]and have fun blowing each-other up!

• Pirate ships – have each team spawn on a different elephants on Sandtrap. Put 3-4 portable grav lifts on each elephant. Have the two teams parallel each other’s elephants and use the grav lifts to board each other’s elephants.

• Baseball – have a player make as many Rockets as possible and a grav hammer not to far away (this works best on Valhalla) have 1 player get a rocket and the other get the grav hammer now shoot a rocket at the player with the gravity hammer and at the last second get the player with the hammer to hit the rocket and after a few tries you should get it out of the map.

• Death pits – meaning placing all the explosive scenery in one spot and put it on unlimited respawns and place a respawn point over it and set it off. the result big boom and instant death.(works best in the back of High Ground). HAVE LOTS OF FUN!!!

• Overloading a map – Place 2 Trip mines at your feet and set it so it respawns instantly. Next, get an SMG and a pistol (no dual wield) and press X and Y very fast. You will keep throwing Trip Mines. You know the map is overloaded when the Gravity Lifts don’t work, certain things like the main gate on High Ground begin to disappear and the mines on Sandtrap and the cannons on Snowbound are not working either. Weird stuff begins to happen when you overload a map…

• Kamikaze Cheif – when in Player Mode have someone stick you with either a plasma grenade or a spike grenade. Quickly turn into Monitor Mode and the grenade will disappear. While being a monitor, fly next to a player you want to give your nasty surprise to and turn back into Player mode again. The grenade will reappear with just as much time left on the fuse. NOTE: this trick does NOT work in reverse as the monitor when stuck and you change into a human and back the grenade is gone forever… Have fun with this trick.

UNSC

• Infantry
  • SPARTAN Group Omega
  • UNSC Marines
  • Possibly a crewman as seen the concept art.
• Weapons
  • Assault Rifle: wielded by SPARTAN Group Omega and UNSC ground forces.
  • Shotgun: Concept Art.
  • M6C Magnum Sidearm: wielded by SPARTAN Group Omega.
  • Sniper Rifle System 99C-S2 AM: Concept Art.
  • BR55HB SR Battle Rifle: Seen with some ground forces
  • M19 SSM Rocket Launcher: Seen with some ground forces
• Vehicles
  • Warthog
  • Troop Transport Warthog
  • Scorpion Tank
  • D77H-TCI Pelican
  • Shortsword-class Bomber
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Albatross
  • Rhino (Different type of tank, possible artillery, weaker then the Scorpion according to the E3 07 demo)
  • Cougar (Armored Fighting Vehicle)
  • Wolverine (Missile Launching Half-Track seen in Gamespot update.)
  • Elephant
• Buildings
  • UNSC Supply Pad
  • Missile silo
  • Command Center
  • Vehicle Depot
  • Armory
  • Aircraft Pad
  • Drill Grounds
  • Barracks

• Other
  • MAC Cannon Bombardment : Can be used to call in a bombardment from space. Several MAC rounds batter an area, destroying both friend and foe within it.^[4]

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Covenant

The Elites as depicted in a prerendered trailer for Halo Wars.

Concept art for the Elite.

• Infantry
  • Covenant Elite
  • Covenant Hunter
  • Covenant Grunt
  • Covenant Jackal
• Weapons
  • Fuel Rod Gun as seen wielded by an Elite in the E307 demo.
  • Energy Sword as seen wielded by an Elite in the trailer and Concept Art.
  • Needler seen wielded by Grunts.
  • Plasma Pistol as seen wielded by Grunts.
  • Plasma Rifle as seen wielded by an Elite in the trailer.
• Vehicles
  • Banshee
  • Scarab
  • Ghost
  • Shadow
  • Wraith
  • Covenant Air Artillery
  • Spectre

• Halo 3 Players Online:

  164,984

• Unique Players (Last 24 Hours):

  813,853

• Matches Logged (Last 24 Hours):

  1,750,360

• UNSC Campaign Kill Count:

  3,897,427,908

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