- AXELXu7
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- Honorable Member
All these soldiers are mortal. Spartans are as expensive to field as an entire battle group. I don't know how many ships there are in a battle group, but 80% of the cost comes from the layer of mjolnir armor that allows an AI to do what it does in a ship. It's essentially a hard drive woven into a layer in a suit. A big hard drive. The kind that goes on a ship. If they took that out, Mjolnir armor would probably cost as much as a frigate. Still pricey. For the same cost, you can field a battalion of ODSTs. While It seems like spartans do more damage, alot of it has to do with well placed explosives. What all these dudes before me have said is that Spartans are better than ODSTs, no doubt. But, without the augmentations, without the Mjolnir, all you have is excellent physical specimens, and cunning intellects. If you're gonna add in the Augmentations and the armour, even it up by adding in the cost. 300-1,300 ODSTs versus one spartan? In matchmaking, spartans die from a sniper bullet to the head. In the fall of reach book, John-117 almost got killed by an air strike. I don't think spartans are worth the money, but I do like their morale boost. People needed a rally point, and spartans were just that messiah like figure that they needed. I just don't get why most of them had to die on reach...Whatever happened to "live to fight another day?".