New details on Halo Wars Marines and Hornet

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New details on Halo Wars Marines and Hornet

Posted Sep 19th 2008 6:00PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Halo Wars

The Halo Wars website has been updated with info on two new units as well as two new structures. The first is the trusty UNSC Marine, deployed in squads of five from a barracks, they come equipped with MA5 assault rifles and grenades. They are quick (and cheap) to train and, from the sound of things, their grenades can be upgraded to rockets. They are described as a good all around unit and effective in large numbers. The second unit is the Hornet, which is deployed from a UNSC airpad. It is described as an anti-aircraft unit, though it does have the ability to attack ground units as well. We imagine they make a decent reconaissance vehicle as well. Hit the source links below to see images of the new units as well as some videos of each unit in action.

Source - UNSC barracks and Marines
Source - UNSC airpad and Hornet

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Tags: ensemble, ensemble-studios, halo, halo-wars, mgs, microsoft-game-studios

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-19-2008 @ 7:44PM

Robert Cat said...

I wonder if the pilot for the Hornet only uses one little analog stick for aiming as well as ascending and descending.

9-19-2008 @ 8:45PM

mike said...

can't wait for this game, but man this is taking forever, I remember seeing the first trailer for it years ago and theres still no set release date?

9-19-2008 @ 8:56PM

dirt said...

I wish this was coming to PC :(

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