The Warlock

Because they were PRE-attached...not leaving it up to players to finagle some monstrous weapon concoction like a wicked sidearm with a silencer, telescopic vision, armor piercing rounds and the added ability to make post game smoothies.

I hadn't really thought about the other two types of Fuel rods but I definitely agree that it should be modeled after the infantry variant of the weapon. As per clip size, I'm not opposed to it having something small like two extra launches (lets face it, we can unload an infantry fuel rod in less time than it takes for a mantis to fire two to three of its rockets), coupled with the previously mentioned slightly faster reload speed I'd think it was decently equivalent to the power that the rockets hit with. Also note that because the fuel rods would be the infantry version, it's long range capabilities would be lower but still possible. Where as the Mantis' secondary armament is its' long range weapon, the Locusts' would be it's primary. As per where they are mounted though, it's hard to say really but I'd almost imagine the pod(s) be mounted on either side of the main chassis of the Locust (three and three IF it has two more rods than a Mantis does Rockets) and that they would actually alternate fire (left, right, left, right etc) as they cycled. Hadn't really brought up it's anti-close range capabilities though previously (Mantis' Stomping melee) but I'd suppose that if the button to crouch raises you, that button would bring the locust back down...forcibly of course. Unless anyone else has any suggestions on that one of course lol

I don't really think I'd want to see weapon attachments. Not sure I'm really ready for "Call of Halo".

I'd like to see a Locust in Halo 5 honestly, it could totally work with some adjustments to how the mantis is. The Locust would likely be a little slower than the Mantis. However, I'm sure this could be compensated with by offering the Locust a little extra endurance making it a little harder to kill as well. In terms of weapons for the platform, I'd suggest the possibility of a similar but enlarged variation of the covey sniper from Reach, a beam that would over-heat given that it was held down too long, but would also grow in power as the trigger was held(It would absolutely NOT function as the spartan laser does). Now the thing to this would be that just like the Mantis, the gun would have to reload, right? Well, top that I'd offer the solution of its' reloading mechanism be something similar to that of the covey's plasma repeater, where it would vent the weapon more so than reload it. However, if you were to simply hold the button down until the beam over-heated, it would take longer for the weapon to cool enough to return to a usable state (as it had indeed, over-heated and not simply been vented prior to said event). As per the secondary armament, I'd suggest the possibility of it being a covey equivalent to the rocket pods: Fuel Rods. Now, a lot of folks seem to think that fuel rods aren't that great, but hear me out. Fuel rods, while they may not necessarily be a one hit kill capable weapon on vehicles (though it has happened) they still provide a wonderful amount of support for the statistics of the provided vehicle platform. The fuel rod is more than capable of propelling other vehicles away quite well, as well as providing a solid defense against incoming infantry. The launcher itself would likely function in a way quite similar to that of the Mantis rocket-launcher, but may have a slightly (and do I mean EVER so slightly) reload speed given its' slightly lower overall power/damage. To be fair, the Locust would not be able to crouch (as it has non-segmented legs, see H.W.) such as how the Mantis can, so as opposed to the B button (or equivalent pc/whatever keybinding) crouching the Locust, it could slightly raise it, providing the main body of the station were actually set slightly lower in the legs with supports that may enable the main chassis to be raised making it move at an even slower rate in exchange for a slight height advantage (such as peering over a small hill etc, enabling it to possibly get a bead on an incoming vehicle, or even, a saving grace laze that may just do that last little amount of damage to drop a hog loaded with a flag/bomb carrier). I think that just about covers the main thought, obviously there are things that can be argued about it and that's perfectly a-okay by me. A big thanks out to my buddy spartan_J03 who actually got me to jump on here and toss something in. He's a trooper lol.