It's simple armaments can have prowlers harass the Marathon during its missile and MAC recharge, with it being left to use it's hilariously weak autocannons.

It has only four guns to broadside with, so frigates and destroyers can flank the Marathon easily.

Doing this will make an extremely difficult to crack gun battery, because you will heavily outrange the enemy and will have a combined total of 12 PD weapons, more than adequate to defend against reasonable threats.

If anything starts coming towards you, just fire everything at it before it comes into range, because your life depends on it.

You can treat this as a precursor to the Valiant, having a very similar play style (except Valiant can actually go into combat unlike Marathon).

It is unrecommended to charge into battle with this as it will basically disintegrate if it comes into enemy fire. Halo UNSC Marathon class cruiser (Texture Work) Share Pin Tweet Share.

The strategy here is vastly different from other cruisers at its tier and reminiscent of carriers simply hang at the spawn, spamming missiles at enemies and sniping them with your MAC.

Unsc marathon class cruiser