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Subject: REALISTICLY How long would you last as a civilian in New Mombossa?

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Okay, so we all know if you had a fair grasp on tactical street fighting and lots of guns that anybody could survive the Covenant patrols in ODST...from the comfort of your own home. But how long do you think you could last as a regular civilian with little to no military training?

I've devised a few general kinds of civilian you will be. You must pick what back round you come from. They each have their own advantages. From that you make up your own story of yourself in New Mombossa. But please no, "I would go to an armory and lazor everyone" This is assuming your just a REGULAR civilian. I will just outline the basic "Class" of civilian you will start out as...just to avoid the classic "I would go to the armory and get a BR and shoot everyone then get ODST armor and halp Master Chief" Again I will say. if you were a REGULAR civilian. I highly doubt any normal person would know the existance of a Spartan II, or the location of the ONI Alpha Site, or any UNSC armories.

Random Civilian A: You are an office worker for Traxus when Regret's ship enters Slipspace. You are in a parking ramp hiding. It colapses, but you are safe, but have a sprained ankle. You were beforehand however armed by an MP. It is just a simple M6G. Covenant patrols in your area are relatively light for the first two hours after the jump.

Random Civilian B: You are in your apartment and out of work. You are a retired policeman with a reasonable supply of firearms. Including a Shotgun, MA5, and M6D:Halo 1 pistol. The area around you is swarming with Covenant from Regret's ship that didn't make it the the carrier. So you will have to be careful about using those weapons.

Random Civilian C: You are a student from New Mombossa College. When the Covenant showed up people were ushered into bunkers, you were one of the unlucky ones. You are also unarmed. Covenant patrols are medium in your area, you have a multitool with screwdriver, knife, etc. You can improvise weapons from random things in houses, buildings etc. (if you choose this you CAN'T improvise anything TOO extreame" I'm talking MacGyver kind of stuff he can make. Like a tripwire that sets of flashbangs to disable some grunts long enough to knock them out and take their weapons.


Also, the Covenant and Human weapons aren't like in the game, remember you guys aren't wearing shields or armor. Needlers were explode from one shot, if they don't you've still got a 2 foot long thing inside your torso. Plasma will melt things, not just stop vehicles.

Okay then. Thanks for reading, and good luck surviving guys.

[Edited on 07.18.2009 7:00 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2009 7:00 PM PDT

Datass

mmmm not long

  • 07.18.2009 7:05 PM PDT

War, is never meant to be tested by statistics, only chance. Being trained in combat only raises your chances of survival, it does not how ever increase the likely hood that you will make it out alive. Life and Death are in one balance... Therefore take my hand boy if you want to live.

  • 07.18.2009 10:19 PM PDT

in all seriousness i would put a bullet through my brain with the pistol

  • 07.18.2009 10:31 PM PDT
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lol, suicide is the only way!!!

  • 07.18.2009 10:33 PM PDT

How come I never get the sniper rifle?!
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My ROFLsniper goes POW!

My dad has like an arsenal of awesome weapons that could ick Covenant ass, so i say id escape my house and hide and kill covenant if i see them. =]]

  • 07.18.2009 10:33 PM PDT
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who caressssss

  • 07.18.2009 10:33 PM PDT

Rain, and Jazz.
Halo: Tactical

I'm either a fool or an inteligent man, depending on how sleepy or angry I am.

I originaly made an account on 07.27.2007 but I wanted to link my GT and made this account. Don't forget your passwords!

I chose me. I'm so dang paranoid I know how to beserk and would beat down the grunts with a spoon if I had to. I would take this huge bucher knife thats in my mom's (I'm 13) house Kill a grunt take his ammo, guns, gernades, and his methane pack and use it to kill a brute and a few grunts take the stuff they had, set up a perimiter and try to find a survivor. Oh and I would only venture out to find food, people, and anything that can fix up a wound.

The trick to living in that enfiornment is to be heartless as to discribe in detail what shooting someone in the head would look like but also be able to discribe something sweet, lovely and err... the only discription I could think of is frolicing in a flower garden with butterflies (I don't Know! I couldn't think of another explanation!). Pretty much to have to regret for what you do but stay sane while you watch your self killing the enimey.

... I'm all out of Ideas. (I'm not going to read the replys to this)

  • 07.18.2009 10:40 PM PDT

I want my steaks Luke...

Just about until I can cross the first bridge out of that hell hole...
Meanwhile I get to listen to your screams of agony as all of you fall prey to a two ton ape...
Ah yes... the Underground Subway

  • 07.18.2009 11:06 PM PDT

I would last for a while cause I would hide behind the ODSTs

  • 07.18.2009 11:43 PM PDT

Forever.
I'd use the picnic table maneuver. Picnic tables last a while.

(Really about 28 min).

  • 07.18.2009 11:46 PM PDT

In all seriousness, I would try and find a propane tank of some sort, a gas can, lighter, etc. and take out as many guys with me in my "noble" suicide, but who wants to survive in a place like that anyway?

  • 07.18.2009 11:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Arbiter 739
I chose me. I'm so dang paranoid I know how to beserk and would beat down the grunts with a spoon if I had to. I would take this huge bucher knife thats in my mom's (I'm 13) house Kill a grunt take his ammo, guns, gernades, and his methane pack and use it to kill a brute and a few grunts take the stuff they had, set up a perimiter and try to find a survivor. Oh and I would only venture out to find food, people, and anything that can fix up a wound.

The trick to living in that enfiornment is to be heartless as to discribe in detail what shooting someone in the head would look like but also be able to discribe something sweet, lovely and err... the only discription I could think of is frolicing in a flower garden with butterflies (I don't Know! I couldn't think of another explanation!). Pretty much to have to regret for what you do but stay sane while you watch your self killing the enimey.

... I'm all out of Ideas. (I'm not going to read the replys to this)
Wow, you do know grunts are not at all weak compared to civilians, it jsut seems that way because you always play as a half-ton super soldier whos health regenerates, your health does not. I would give you five seconds running around screaming at the top of your lungs while hurtleing yourself at a squad of grunts and a brute. Goodbye, you will not be missed.

  • 07.18.2009 11:53 PM PDT

*Banks&Bella*

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id be citizen b. mainly because im in my own home with plenty off weapons and a lil combat training, plus i would know the and could bar everything up while the odst's liberated the city of covenant, and if could be myself my dad has a huge arsenal in his study and plenty of 2x4 in the garage but then again the whole inccident is like hundreds of years later lol

[Edited on 07.19.2009 12:05 AM PDT]

  • 07.18.2009 11:58 PM PDT

UEM Brig/leader of the 42nd drop pod group
ODST QUOTE:You know the music, time to dance!
ODST MOTO:Feet First Into Hell

ill give myself 2days because i can hide but ill have to come out sometime, and when i do..............

  • 07.19.2009 12:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: Arbiter 739
I chose me. I'm so dang paranoid I know how to beserk and would beat down the grunts with a spoon if I had to. I would take this huge bucher knife thats in my mom's (I'm 13) house Kill a grunt take his ammo, guns, gernades, and his methane pack and use it to kill a brute and a few grunts take the stuff they had, set up a perimiter and try to find a survivor. Oh and I would only venture out to find food, people, and anything that can fix up a wound.

The trick to living in that enfiornment is to be heartless as to discribe in detail what shooting someone in the head would look like but also be able to discribe something sweet, lovely and err... the only discription I could think of is frolicing in a flower garden with butterflies (I don't Know! I couldn't think of another explanation!). Pretty much to have to regret for what you do but stay sane while you watch your self killing the enimey.

... I'm all out of Ideas. (I'm not going to read the replys to this)


How are you going to get a grunt to enter at your house all alone with no brutes in the first place?

  • 07.19.2009 12:29 AM PDT
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well that depends is Chuck Norris there to fight with me?

  • 07.19.2009 12:30 AM PDT

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Based on the parameters of your scenario I'd be:
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Random Civilian A: You are an office worker for Traxus when Regret's ship enters Slipspace. You are in a parking ramp hiding. It colapses, but you are safe, but have a sprained ankle. You were beforehand however armed by an MP. It is just a simple M6G. Covenant patrols in your area are relatively light for the first two hours after the jump.


As an officer worker with no experience in combat I would avoid any combat if at all possible and keep to the shadows and just try and avoid the patrols since they are light. Since I have a sprained ankle I'd most likely try to get a vehicle, perhaps a civilian warthog if at all possible but a regular car would suffice. Since I would be impeded if traveling on foot I'd use my found vehicle to make it as far out of the city as possible speeding past any covenant patrols doing my best to either run into them or strafe to avoid plasma taking out a tire. As a civilian my only real choice would be to get out of the city and go hide up in the mountains by Kilimanjaro. I'd have considered the option of going to space but rejected it considering the covenant are at Earth there wouldn't be a safe place to go so I'd make the best of things on Earth and try to pick up as many people and supplies as I could on my way.

  • 07.19.2009 12:32 AM PDT
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You have a brain. Use it, please.

I would attempt to, in an unarmed scenario, find a human or preferably Covenant corpse to loot for weapons+ammo. Or suicide bomb.

  • 07.19.2009 8:41 AM PDT

Datass

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in all seriousness i would put a bullet through my brain with the pistol

agreed

  • 07.19.2009 8:48 AM PDT
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I'd just go and hide...

  • 07.19.2009 8:50 AM PDT

I would most likely be in a position most like Person C so I'll go with that. I would find some sort of knife for self-defence while I travel around the city very slowly and stealthily, only killing when necessary. I would find the closest super-market that is un-occupied, make some barricades without making too much sound, store provisions in and around the store in places I can hide easily that are not obvious, and wait it out using multiple hiding spots to make sure I am never found while I use gurrella tactics. Provided nothing drastically aweful happens, such as the Rookie finding me triggering a scripted event to happen to kill me, I would survive for quite a while, atleast hopefully.

  • 07.19.2009 8:54 AM PDT

Halo: Heretic or Hero---An Elite's Story
Choose your own destiny

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Forged in the Flames of Passion, go forth and represent!

Realisticly?

Six and a half seconds.

  • 07.19.2009 8:55 AM PDT

A well-built sniper rifle is a beautiful thing. Mine has two separate levels of zoom: 'Up-close-and-personal' and 'Hello-you're-dead'.

I will survive!
I will never die! Chuck Norris is my personal bodyguard.

  • 07.19.2009 10:13 AM PDT

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