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Subject: Why dont the humans have a melee weapon?

and humans are more agile

  • 06.14.2009 2:40 AM PDT

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One point to make is, do people use swords in modern combat. No. They havent done for a couple of hundred years, apart from tribal people. That is because they are generally ineffective against weapons with any sort of range.

So as time goes by and weapons advance, why would they create primative weapons to kill enemies with? As time goes by im sure that humans would have moved father away from close combat weapons.

The elites have them for ceremonial purposes, not as a first form of weaponry. Then the brutes, well they are primitive creatures that just use ... well ... Brute force to fight.

  • 06.14.2009 2:47 AM PDT
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KILL THEM ANY WAY !!!1!!!

brutes are idoits

[Edited on 06.14.2009 2:50 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2009 2:48 AM PDT

What's the point of bringing a knife or stick, or electrofied plasma nanite sword to a gun party?

  • 06.14.2009 2:51 AM PDT
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i agree , brutes are primative so they use primative weaponry.

  • 06.14.2009 2:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: Slayer Lord
One point to make is, do people use swords in modern combat. No. They havent done for a couple of hundred years, apart from tribal people. That is because they are generally ineffective against weapons with any sort of range.

So as time goes by and weapons advance, why would they create primative weapons to kill enemies with? As time goes by im sure that humans would have moved father away from close combat weapons.

The elites have them for ceremonial purposes, not as a first form of weaponry. Then the brutes, well they are primitive creatures that just use ... well ... Brute force to fight.
This guy gets it all right. Why use a sword when you have ranged weapons with more power?

  • 06.14.2009 3:43 AM PDT
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The human melee weapon is the SPARTAN! I mean, they can destroy without a damn weapon. Useing your melee kills them fast, cause you play as a spartan =P. So yea done.

Now being serious...The human melee weapon is pretty much the Shotgun. Almost everyone melees with it after they shoot someone and that someone did not die. there you go.

If you really want a damn melee weapon, your not going to get a human one. If you think of it, the heck is going to stand up against an elite with a energy sword or a brute with a gravity hammer? unless that person is a spartan, it would be epic fail. Besides, what the heck would they make to match a Gravity Hammer or Energy Sword?

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  • 06.14.2009 3:44 AM PDT

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Gravity Hammers work because they manipulate gravity to drastically increase the pull and damage caused by the Hammer.

Energy Swords work because they're made out of concentrated Plasma and can cut through shielding.

Therefor, the only way a Human melee weapon would actually work is if it did something entirely different from the other two melee weapons, while being powerful at the same time, and with the SPARTAN Laser being the only laser based weapon in the UNSC's arsenal, and a very un-advanced one (when compared to the Covenant), I doubt that a human melee weapon would be made.

Plus the Shotgun works great, and I'm pretty sure that 21.21 millimeters of Buckshot in your chest is universally recognized as 'kiss your ass goodbye'.

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They do, its called a golf club.

  • 06.14.2009 5:11 AM PDT
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They do, its called a golf club.

Best Halo 3 weapon ever.

  • 06.14.2009 5:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: CaptKrunch 96
They do, its called a golf club.

Best Halo 3 weapon ever.


agreed.

  • 06.14.2009 5:32 AM PDT
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ITS TACTICALLY WRONG
why would super soldiers want to waste their time, expertise and risk going in close combat with aliens when they have the -blam!- guns for it EY!

  • 06.14.2009 5:34 AM PDT

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why yess they do....
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  • 06.14.2009 5:34 AM PDT

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well the grav hamer shizes all over you if you come close... so a sword or batton would be out of the question... also an energy sword would cut through you melee weapon. ummm but having some thing like a kia i think its called ( a blade with handle that when swung can extend ) would be cool

  • 06.14.2009 5:36 AM PDT
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This is a game in the future anyway, not the past. There is no need for humans to use melee weapons.

  • 06.14.2009 5:43 AM PDT

Posted by: yugor1000
Because against SPARTANS, Elites and Brutes, any melee weapon the humans would have would be completely useless, unlike the Covenant Energy Sword and the Brute Gravity Hammer.

Demostrated as such.


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  • 06.14.2009 6:05 AM PDT

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They do it is just that humans aren't as physiclly strong as the covenate, granted grunts.
It is better they use guns.

Although I still wan't to see a spartan fight with a sword or knife.

Swords and knives could work with spartans, If 2 melees kill then 1 swing with a titanium-A sword would kill in one hit. It would be like getting hit by a mongoose with a blade on it.

Titanium-A is the material used for UNSC ship hull. If you wanted to know.

  • 06.14.2009 6:15 AM PDT

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