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Posted by: Masta Chief 99
Posted by: the_Ender
i may be wrong but i don't think that we were just fighting grunts and jackals in the beginning, i'm pretty sure that there were hunters and elites too. if it was just grunts and jackals, the marines are even more pathetic than i thought
No one is disputing how pathetic the marines are (or rather were in Halo: CE). They're pretty much fleshy shields to me.
if it was just grunts and jackals invading at first then the human race is doomed cuz being overrun by a bunch of grunts is pathetic even for the marines. now with the brutes, the marines have no chance
Think about it. It really is not that hard for the Covenant to win on the ground. The Covenant mass Grunts by the thousands and send them rushing to their doom. They do likewise for Jackals. If the Covenant lose on the ground, which happens every time the Spartans are involved and maybe 3 in every 5 times when they are not, then they just go into orbit and glass the planet simple as that.
It is not the ground war that we should be concerned about winning, but rather in space. Hell a fair space fight is when we outnumber the Covenant 3 to 1. That is just a fiar fight! In the entire war we've won 5 space battles that make any difference. The retaking of Harvest, Draco III, Sigma Octanus IV, Halo, and Operation: First Strike. That's it. Other than that the Covenant have glassed planet after planet wiping out the human race as they do it. As well as destroying our fleet and forcing us to run.
[Edited on 6/28/2004 9:51:06 PM]