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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.


 
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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.
Probably Midget


 
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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.
Probably Midget
I have that suspicion too.


 
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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots


 
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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.
Midget is the resident Mass Effect sycophant, yeah.


 
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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.
Midget is the resident Mass Effect sycophant, yeah.
Blind fanboys are a cancer in any form of media

narrow minded people who refuse to think the things they love might just be slightly flawed


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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>TFW the UNSC Infinity can slipspace surprise! ram all of the ME ships
>TFW the Forerunners can take their lowest tier warship and literally beat ME to death with it
>TFW the forerunner can turn all reapers into calamari with a squadron of War Sphinx (hell, even just one)


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The UNSC doesn't seem all that powerful because.....well they still use stuff we use today, just slightly more futuristic. Like bullets and Jeeps (warthogs)


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The UNSC doesn't seem all that powerful because.....well they still use stuff we use today, just slightly more futuristic. Like bullets and Jeeps (warthogs)

On the ground, the UNSC is laughably underequipped. In space, not so much.


 
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The UNSC doesn't seem all that powerful because.....well they still use stuff we use today, just slightly more futuristic. Like bullets and Jeeps (warthogs)
You're forgetting the massive ships and light speed without the need of mass relays. The soldiers gear as well. Mass Effect uses bullets too.


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The UNSC doesn't seem all that powerful because.....well they still use stuff we use today, just slightly more futuristic. Like bullets and Jeeps (warthogs)
You're forgetting the massive ships and light speed without the need of mass relays. The soldiers gear as well. Mass Effect uses bullets too.

I wasn't aware of light speed. And I thought of those mass effect bullets as more of energy rounds, since they use thermal clips as ammo. But it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things.


 
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The UNSC doesn't seem all that powerful because.....well they still use stuff we use today, just slightly more futuristic. Like bullets and Jeeps (warthogs)
You're forgetting the massive ships and light speed without the need of mass relays. The soldiers gear as well. Mass Effect uses bullets too.

I wasn't aware of light speed. And I thought of those mass effect bullets as more of energy rounds, since they use thermal clips as ammo. But it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things.
Oh right, those. I remember Shepard explaining them in detail in ME2 as a way to explain why ammo was suddenly a thing in ME2.


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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>Literally believing a dramatic cinematic sequence curtails exactly how the battle would play out

Also the Reapers purposely positioned themselves with their backs to Earth. The fuck else was the fleet suppose to do you fucking inbred retard


 
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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>Literally believing a dramatic cinematic sequence curtails exactly how the battle would play out

Also the Reapers purposely positioned themselves with their backs to Earth. The fuck else was the fleet suppose to do you fucking inbred retard


You can be dramatic without being retarded.



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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>Literally believing a dramatic cinematic sequence curtails exactly how the battle would play out

Also the Reapers purposely positioned themselves with their backs to Earth. The fuck else was the fleet suppose to do you fucking inbred retard


You can be dramatic without being retarded.



Yeah sure, then the Reapers would just move in correspondence to the fleet. It's literally not as simple as you make it out to be.


 
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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>Literally believing a dramatic cinematic sequence curtails exactly how the battle would play out

Also the Reapers purposely positioned themselves with their backs to Earth. The fuck else was the fleet suppose to do you fucking inbred retard


You can be dramatic without being retarded.



Yeah sure, then the Reapers would just move in correspondence to the fleet. It's literally not as simple as you make it out to be.

Which is why the Reapers didn't even react until the citadel fleet was right on top of them right? Also considering the fact that the citadel was anchored over London they wouldn't be able to reposition themselves without leaving it wide open even if they did react before their enemies were a couple thousand meters away.

The ME3 ending was a shit show from start to finish.
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And obviously rushed. I think they said that they didn't even consult the ending with the majority of the writing staff either, and it showed.


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The fact that both anything in Halo is able to do interstellar travel on it's own is a massive advantage. ME sucks without the relays, they have no mobility.


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Halo has a good 400 years on Mass Effect, so... I mean, not a fair fight. Maybe Halo vs Star Wars.
Since the EU is not canon anymore Star Wars lost the majority of what it had that made it powerful.


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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.
Tell that to the Aztec when the Spanish rolled over them.

Better tech = a significant advantage

Tell that to Germany when Russia drowned them in hordes of men.

Quantity beats quality, every time.
Germany was also fighting a war on two fronts, so yeah.

The massive ships and men the Covvie and Humans have would easily win I would wager.
Also Germany didn't build things like long range bombers which fucked them over, 10% of their forces in Russia started out with winter gear, they kept changing the objective for what to attack and they could have used the population to help them out. If it wasn't for the Nazi's doing their thing to the population they could have used a lot of civilians to attack Stalin's regime since the guy was an asshole.


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Did he say glass of juice or gas the Jews?
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ME, easily. I don't know why this is even up for debate. With all ME races included the UNSC and Covies would be horribly overwhelmed.

>TFW no number of Ass Effect's pea shooters will do sugnifigant dammage to a ship like Mantle's aproach
>TFW a UNSC friggate could tear Harbiger in half with a single shot
>TFW the UNSC is specialized in ROFLSTOMPING larger armies
>TFW losing the relays causes Mass Effect to autolose
>TFW Mass Effect has leadership as efficient as potato batteries
>TFW you coulld literally run over a Sovereign class reaper with a Guardian
>TFW you could literally run over the Citadel and it's fleet with High Charity alone
>TFW you're up against a race who's factories are the sizes of entire gas giant planets or entire solar systems
>TFW the forerunners could just blow up your sun if hey wanted to
>TFW the forerunners could just kill everyone in the galaxy if they wanted
>TFW Neural Physics
>TFW you have the lolQuarians on your side
>TFW your most effective fighting force is a bunch of frogs
>TFW said frogs are going extinct anyway
>TFW you decieded we have to fight together but when your superfleet exited the relay the enemy detonated a nuke on said relay.
>TFW the mass Relay explosion annihilates you and your entire fleet
>TFW any potential survivors are now stranded

>TFW the ME navy flies so close together that they'll ram allied ships if they try to avoid incoming fire
>TFW the ME navy places itself in a position where every missed shot will impact the earth when fighting the reapers
>TFW they fire randomly at the reapers anyway and miss half their shots
>TFW the UNSC Infinity can slipspace surprise! ram all of the ME ships
>TFW the Forerunners can take their lowest tier warship and literally beat ME to death with it
>TFW the forerunner can turn all reapers into calamari with a squadron of War Sphinx (hell, even just one)
>TFW the UNSC can build NOVA bombs which a single one can destroy a whole fleet and the Citadel in one go.


 
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Who was the one here who thought there was nothing wrong with Mass Effect and it was the best series ever?

I know someone said it.
Midget is the resident Mass Effect sycophant, yeah.
Blind fanboys are a cancer in any form of media

narrow minded people who refuse to think the things they love might just be slightly flawed
He's like hardly ever serious on this board...

A moron, yes, but serious? No.


 
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You called?


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I think a better question would be pre war UNSC vs the entirety of the ME universe.

But I guess if you have to significantly depower a universe in order to prevent it from murderstomping another one then said universe has already won.
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Whichever one was written more poorly.


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A flower which blooms on the battlefield
All of Mass Effect could hold off the UNSC via superior numbers
Because that'd make a significant difference.
An extremely weak universe is still an extremely weak universe even if they have extra extremely weak numbers on their side.

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faster ships
That are also shit. Plus they rely on the Mass Relays to get anywhere.
Speed doesn't really mean anything, especially when it's only certain ships that are faster.

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and hella durable reapers
So durable that you destroy multiple Reapers throughout the series using piddlly little ships and weak ass weaponry.
A single MAC round would rip through a Reaper.
Covenant ships wouldn't even have to put in any effort to destroy Reapers.

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Maybe the Covenant, if they're alone.
Before or after they bombard the planets with plasma, wreck ground forces, and decimate any and all ships the ME universe can throw at them?
Mass Effect's tech wouldn't stand a chance against anything the Covenant have.


TL;DR Mass Effect is comically weak
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All of Mass Effect could hold off the UNSC via superior numbers
Because that'd make a significant difference.
An extremely weak universe is still an extremely weak universe even if they have extra extremely weak numbers on their side.

Even if a MAC round can total any ship from Mass Effect, they can only take down one ship every few seconds. Yes, numbers make a difference.

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Speed doesn't really mean anything

Getting reinforcements more quickly than the other team doesn't mean anything? Maneuvering in-battle more efficiently doesn't mean anything? More easily regrouping doesn't mean anything?

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So durable that you destroy multiple Reapers throughout the series using piddlly little ships and weak ass weaponry.

Didn't it take a planet-scarring weapon to down one of them? That comes up a lot when Mass Effect is involved.

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Before or after they bombard the planets with plasma

Takes a fuckton of resources, but yeah, they could.

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wreck ground forces

The Covenant's infantry are piss weak, though. Then again so are Mass Effect's.

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and decimate any and all ships the ME universe can throw at them?

Same as above. They could tear apart any ships Mass Effect can send their way, but only one at a time. And Mass Effect has a lot of ships.

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Mass Effect's tech wouldn't stand a chance against anything the Covenant have.

Didn't say they could win. Just hold them off. And clearly not both at once.