Spartan119 the Red Raven.
"So officer tell me how it feels to be at the wrong end of that barrel?"
the engineirs existed at that time, one was in the books or somethig when the covenant first met the humands or something or other, drones tried to kill him idk i havent read the books personally but ive seen it mentionad often.
but ya enginiers existed and were cut from CE.
brutes also existed at this time tho there influence in the covenant was still minimal but i do believe they should be in there. cause well there great and original... just everyone LOVES the elites alot more (personaly i love both equally but the elites were funner to fight cause they actually had AI unlike brute witch just stood there and shot at u.)
a few times or another u should come across a brute pack torturing some POW and being all brutal like there suppose to be. the gravity hammer should exist tho ocording to lore i do believe the only one was tarturuses (once again idk) but bungie has the final word here.
then the brute chieften that used the energie sword in the vodoc "Eh tu brute" was really cool.
i agree with what ure saying (tho u left out invisable elites and spec ops grunts , the little black ones.) this is a ruff cast of the infantry but there are alot more.
tho i believe that the different ranks in the covenant should be more varied. the lower ranked should have less moral be less accurate and be terribly equiped in comparison to there comanding officers. the higher ranks should be smarter, shoot more, hit more, be better equiped and have better tactics.
for example a elite common leading his grunts into battle. (3 grunts)
he would move himself into cover and tell his grunts to charge.
the grunts would grudingly charge and the elite would start shooting u with his plasma rifle while the inacurate plasma pistols wis by and scarsly hit there mark. the grunts would die and the elite would curse and possibly wait for u to get close enofe for him to spring out of cover and melee u. u would defeat him and win.
now lets go with what an higher ranked elite would do with his better tained and better equiped squad. (4 grunts?)
the elite would spot u and order his grunts to take cover and stay close to him. if u charge he would order them to quickly spread out and surround u, if u stayed at a distance he'd say "use ure grenades" and him and all 4 of his grunts would throw a plasma grenade in ure area forcing u out of cover were he would then charge u his squad close behind covering him with a hail of plasma fire.. thus by the time the elite closes the distance to melee u youre shield would be weak and hed finish the job. u lose
now this is just an idea but u can see what im getting at here. if u guys like i could do one for stealth elites and his spec ops grunts (witch ive heard are suppose to have cloaking aswell but never really use it, it would be interseting for the elite to tell his grunts to activate that and flank u. ud be fine and then suddenly plasma grenade on ure back!)