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Subject: What do you think is the grunt's role in the Covenant hierarchy?
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Poll: What do you think is the grunt's role in the Covenant hierarchy?  [closed]
Cannon fodder:  35%
(8 Votes)
Things to make fun of:  17%
(4 Votes)
The main forces:  0%
(0 Votes)
Covenant's secret plan to rid the universe of them:  0%
(0 Votes)
To back up better fighters, like Elites:  26%
(6 Votes)
Assasins:  0%
(0 Votes)
"Pleasure":  17%
(4 Votes)
Human Exterminators:  4%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 23

So? What DO you think? Add why, as well...

[Edited on 7/11/2004 5:21:22 PM]

  • 07.11.2004 4:28 PM PDT
Subject: What do you thing is the grunt's role in the Covenant hierarchy?

Let grunts Sleep!!!

Grunts are pleasurable creatures. Just watch them frolic.

  • 07.11.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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I pick to make fun of because those this are so funny!

  • 07.11.2004 4:42 PM PDT
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*things not this

  • 07.11.2004 4:43 PM PDT
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Those Kellog's Corn Flakes were delicious. Anyway, I think of them more as cannon fodder. The grunts take the hits, while the Elites try to kill the invader.

  • 07.11.2004 4:58 PM PDT
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Has anyone noticed that the grunts are the only covie's that speak a human language? Is this because they are the only ones that can, or the other covies simply don't want to speak it? I think the grunts are a little more intelligent than they let on, but i could bewrong.

[Edited on 7/11/2004 5:23:36 PM]

  • 07.11.2004 5:05 PM PDT
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I think that Bungie put this in simply for humor. Just look at the grunts. Do they look smart to you? NO.

  • 07.11.2004 5:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stickman Army
I think that Bungie put this in simply for humor. Just look at the grunts. Do they look smart to you? NO.

I said I could be wrong. It's just weird that they learned the language so fast.

  • 07.11.2004 5:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: sgt ubergrunt
Posted by: Stickman Army
I think that Bungie put this in simply for humor. Just look at the grunts. Do they look smart to you? NO.

I said I could be wrong. It's just weird that they learned the language so fast.


I know... The "NO" part wasn't really directed to you. It was more directed to the grunt's intelligence level. Which is about equivelant to a duck's.

  • 07.11.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stickman Army
Posted by: sgt ubergrunt
Posted by: Stickman Army
I think that Bungie put this in simply for humor. Just look at the grunts. Do they look smart to you? NO.

I said I could be wrong. It's just weird that they learned the language so fast.


I know... The "NO" part wasn't really directed to you. It was more directed to the grunt's intelligence level. Which is about equivelant to a duck's.

lol, now all I have to know is how smart duck's are.

  • 07.11.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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Yea not very smart at all.They cant even throw a damn gernade right and they cant hardly kill anything except their own comrades.

  • 07.11.2004 6:22 PM PDT
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Except for on Legendary. The grunt's are pretty -blam!- accurate then.

  • 07.11.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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i think they are pets for elites

  • 07.11.2004 8:16 PM PDT
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Grunts are bulletstoppers. Humans gave them the name, right? Well our grunts are bulletstoppers too.

  • 07.11.2004 10:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: sgt ubergrunt
Has anyone noticed that the grunts are the only covie's that speak a human language? Is this because they are the only ones that can, or the other covies simply don't want to speak it? I think the grunts are a little more intelligent than they let on.



I just realised this: elites speak a little human too. They sometimes yell "NO!"

  • 07.11.2004 10:54 PM PDT
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Think turtles on two legs, a dose of radiation, a box of muffins and a Gremlin (from Gremlins). Now throw those into a cloner and that end result is this. A Grunt.

  • 07.12.2004 1:53 AM PDT
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Yeah, Grunts speak English purely for humour. Is there anything they say that can't crack a smile?

Elites talk a little English, but that's probably for humour aswell.

As for the role in the Covenant hierarchy, they are the basic warrior. Although they are quite weak, their huge numbers make up for it.

  • 07.12.2004 3:03 AM PDT
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It would be cool to see what happens when their given to the jackals.Even though their with them most the time.

  • 07.12.2004 4:19 PM PDT
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The reason they speak english is because Cortana can translate their language, which is actually loud barks and hisses or something.
And they are actually human exterminators AND cannon fodder.
In fall of reach when MC was on Sigma Octanus IV and saw all of the dead marines (like a thousand of them) he thought to himself 'The brass better get a burial detail down here before the Grunts get to the corpses.' So grunts eat humans and also eat bullets.

  • 07.12.2004 4:56 PM PDT