Combat Carrier Form

The **Combat Carrier Form** is a sentient being infected by the Flood Infection Forms and serves as a basic combat unit and transporting Infection Forms.

## Overview and Background

Combat Carrier Forms are made from either wounded Combat Forms or from hosts in tougher armor. As the Flood are nothing but resourceful, Combat Carrier Forms continue to utilize their host's biological advantages whilst generating Infection Forms when the host's body eventually expire.

The reasoning behind this is unknown. Although it maybe speculated to maximize the host's potential before it becomes biologically incapable of further combat. On the other hand, host's wearing tougher or more inaccessible armor like those from an ODST, turns into a Combat Carrier Form. The reasoning behind this is even less known, with the most likely scenario being viewed as the armor being too restrictive for the Flood to fully utilize the host's biomass.

Combat Carrier Forms are surprisingly, quite an uncommon sight for the Flood, even in densely populated Flood Hives. The only time they appear were in areas heavily 'Floodified' or terraformed by the Flood, or in areas under heavy Flood assault like the Library, Two Betrayals, None Left Behind and The Maw.

## Gameplay Information

### General

Combat Carrier Forms is a mixture between a Combat Form and a Carrier Form, in which they combine a good balance between durability, offensive capability and Infection capability. They are identifiable by their glowing Infection sacs on their backs and are quite uncommon for the Flood. Although they behave like normal Combat Forms, as aforementioned, they function similarly to Carrier Forms when destroyed, albeit in a lesser degree in terms of the number of Infection Forms that spawns from the explosion.

### Strategy

A proper way to deal with Combat Carrier Forms plus their Infection Forms is to shower the ground with fire via a M7057 Flamethrower, which would both kill the Combat Carrier Forms and deal with the majority of their Infection Forms. However, a problem with this tactic is that the Flamethrower is an uncommon and rare weapon to find.

As such, an alternative is to throw a Gravity Grenade. Since the effects of the Gravity Grenade both kill the Combat Carrier Form and deals with any Infection Forms once the grenade implodes, it is far more accessible of a weapon than the Flamethrower. Of course, the player could only carry a maximum of two, so once must known when and where to throw the grenade.

It should be noted that Elite Combat Carrier Forms move much faster than any other enemy or ally, making them the fastest moving foot unit in SPV3. Players must be aware that they can sometimes appear holding active Plasma Grenades and run towards their enemies in a kamikaze fashion, causing high damage or, more likely, instant death upon contact. Should such an enemy be encountered, it is advised players make them a high priority target above anything else should the Combat Carrier Form target the player. Coupled with their high speed, this makes them extremley dangerous, but can be useful if killed from a distance, since the explosion will kill Flood, Sentinels and Covenant alike, but players must be quick when dealing with them.

## Trivia

* Combat Carrier Forms first appeared in the co-op missions for Halo Spartan Assault.
* The Elite Combat Carrier Form bears more resemblance to the original Elite Combat Form from Halo CE

## Gallery

Back of the Elite Combat Carrier Form. Note the glowing Infection sac.Back of the ODST Combat Carrier Form. Note the glowing Infection sac.