Battle of Asźod

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Battle of Asźod
Conflict:	Human-Covenant War Fall of Reach
Date:	August 29–30, 2552
Location:	Asźod, Eposz, Reach
Outcome:	Covenant victory Remaining UNSC resistance neutralized Asźod glassed Pillar of Autumn escapes with Cortana Heavy Covenant ground and airborne losses
Details Belligerents UNSC Navy Army Marine Corps Covenant Commanders CAPT Jacob Keyes CMDR Carter-A259† LT SPARTAN-B312† Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee Field Marshal Orsu Lar 'Ahtalee† Strength 1 Halcyon-class light cruiser UNSC Pillar of Autumn 23rd Naval Air Squadron Noble Team 3 SPARTAN-IIIs UH-144 Falcons Army troopers D77 Pelicans Marines M12 Chaingun Warthogs M808C Scorpions Navy Several Ket-pattern battlecruiser Army Ru'swum-pattern Phantoms Type-26 Banshees 7 Deutoros-pattern Scarabs Zurdo-pattern Wraiths Devoted Sentries Mgalekgolo Jiralhanae Sangheili Huragok Yanme'e Kig-Yar Skirmishers Unggoy Casualties Heavy Carter-A259 Emile-A239 SPARTAN-B312 Thirteen unknown SPARTANs 2 Pelican dropships Medium-Heavy Army losses Light Marine losses, most fall back to PoA Heavy 1 Ket-pattern battlecruiser 1 Scarab 1 Unidentified Field Marshal 3+ Zealot-class Sangheili commanders 3+ Jiralhanae Chieftains Multiple Phantoms Multiple Banshees

The Battle of Asźod was the last major engagement fought on the planet Reach during the planet's fall between August 29 and 30, 2552.

Background

A Covenant fleet gathers at Asźod.

UNSC position

By this point in the battle for Reach, a Covenant victory was all but inevitable. The UNSC's Epsilon Eridani Fleet had been routed by the combined Covenant fleets, and the Covenant ground invasion was now reinforced by large scale naval forces in low orbit. Surviving UNSC ground forces maintained a tenu