"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End reference FTW.
honestly i dont see the point. Sure the covenant had their props, but the tactics that will be employed by any ST race (not just the federation) will negate most of not all tactics by the covenant. Who needs large combersome dropships when you can have your forces beam down to the area in general?
oh Weapon wise. Kinda iffy, but it also seems to favor the ST side. Sure the Elites have shielding as well as some jackals, but in the grand scope of things it will take little more than a few shots to take out something like a Wraith. Of course if a Scrab shows up, all you need is a few proton torpedoes shoved up its intake pipes.
Shipwise, the Covenant would win in a stand up fight. Star Trek ships have a nearly 360 degrees of firepower, but are spread relatively thin (unless in the occasional flotilla of armada) wheras their Covenant and UNSC counterparts usually deploy at least 20 in a "minor engagement" It seems that unless we go by an actual fluid strategy esque thing (which forums that pose these questions are keen to forget) the Covenant would certainly win these space engagements,although with a higher amount of casualties.
eh what you gonna do? Entrenchment is coming out soon, and with the stacked mods and the SOGE, SoA2, BSG, and B5 mods coming out you can answer that for yourselves (or play against other people)