Hey guys and welcome to my very first map post here on forgehub.
This map was made by myself and my friend Heerz, most of the technical forging stuff and design was by him, so give him the credit for this, as i am new to forging and pretty terrible. Now onto the post, for those who don't like to read and just want to see pictures please skip this next paragraph and move straight on to the spoiler links.

During the invasion of Reach a small team of specialists in the Covenant have made camp on an isolated island just off the coast of the UNSC communications Headquarters.
They plan to fight their way past the fortified base and seize control of the HQ thereby isolating the Spartans and Marines from any orders/Intel from command.

In order to do this they must first infiltrate the outer gate, no easy task as a small spartan force is camped on the nearby mountain.

Elites must first plant a bomb inside the large gates generator that powers the force field and move inside into the canyon.

Inside, the Elites must then destroy the inner gate by either capturing the conference room, based on the nearby hill or capture the gates control tower.

In phase 3 they must then steal the power core that makes the large satellite on the Headquarters function, without this the communications to Spartans are inoperable.

Loadouts:
spartan:
phase 1- Assault rifle, pistol, 2 grenades and Sprint.
phase 2- DMR, Assault Rifle, 2 grenades and Sprint
Assault rifle, pistol, 2 grenades and Hologram
phase 3- Shotgun. pistol, 2 grenades and Armour Lock
DMR, Assault rifle, 2 grenades and Drop shield.

Elite:
phase 1- Plasma repeater, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Evade.
Needle rifle, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Active Camo.
phase 2- Needle Rifle, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Evade.
Needler, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Active Camo.
phase 3- Plasma repeater, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Jetpack.
Concussion Rifle, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Active camo.
Energy sword, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and Hologram.
Needle rifle, plasma pistol, 2 plasma grenades and drop shield.

Vehicles found on map include:
mongoose x2
banshee
wraith
ghost x2
falcon
scorpion
warthog x2

Weapons found on map include:
Sniper x2
Rockets
Plasma pistol
Shade turret x2

Now on to Pictures.

Pictures of the Elite spawn and encampment:
Elite with Bomb

The Spartan spawn and outer base:
Ramp down from Spartan spawn to Beach.
Elite planting the bomb at the gate generator.
Vantage point
Sniper's view.
The gate is destroyed, end of phase 1.

Phase 2: Elites must capture either A or B territory which is located in 2 separate buildings opposite each other in the canyon.
This will open up the Inner gate into the communications HQ compound.

Phase 2 pictures:

the gate control tower, capture point A.
The conference room, capture point B.
Inside the conference room.
Inside the control tower. capture area.
The second gate. to phase 3.

Phase 3:

The Elites must gain control of the base and steal the power core that runs the comms satellite and take it to the teleporter that takes the core to the nearest corvette for extraction.

Phase 3 Pictures:
Phase 2 to phase 3.
the banshee and rocket spawns phase 3.

The headquarters

HQ interior to stairs.
The core is stolen, take it to the nearby teleporter marked by a waypoint.

This concludes the post, i would like to thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully download and have a good luck at the map. personally i think it is an awesome map for invasion and the many times we have ran customs on this with a full lobby everyone has had a good laugh and enjoyed themselves, its a good break from "spire" and "boneyard" too.
I'd also like to thank Heerz for the amazingly large amount of work he put into this and i encourage you to go check out his fileshare and view his cops and robbers prison map which i think is probably the best cops and robbers map so far on reach that i have seen.

Thanks.

Extra screenshots:

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