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On Legendary there are a few successful strategies that I follow to survive those Silver Elites, but they all hinge on 1 thing, using the corridors. On Legendary the enemies come too fast and furious for all but a select few Halo Gods. For the rest of us the corridors allow us a way to do that whole battle and rarely lose any health.
There are several weapons combos that work. I am also a fan of not firing a single SR round in all battles previous to this one, leaving myself with the entire 64 rounds I started the level with. I just love the comfort of having 40 more rounds than I can have with a normally fully loaded SR to do with as I please in that opening ship board battle.
Typically I come aboard with an AR and the SR. The first invisible elite falls nicely to the AR. Once he is down, I position myself a decent grenade toss away from one of the corridor entrances and let the marines deal with the new Silvers. I keep an eye on my motion tracker to figure out where the covies are coming out of the 2 doorways I am concerned with. A well placed frag, move in and take out the stragglers with the AR and swap my SR for either a plasma pistol or a needler. I swap walk the SR and Covie weapon up into the middle of the 2 corridors, where the separating doorway is, and leave the SR there. This way I do not run the risk of it getting blown away where I cannot find it. Once you have your AR and covie weapon, it is pretty easy to coax the Silvers up into the corridors one or two at a time and dispatch them with either needles, plasma grenades or PP and AR combos. You do have to keep an eye out for the spawns out of the corridor ends themselves. You can get whacked upside the head with an energy sword and have your day ruined perty darn quickly if you do not have your head on a swivel (or at least paying attention to your motion tracker or listening for doors opening). I typically prefer the AR PP combo since those long legs of the Silvers make using a needler potentially a hazard for my MC butt. I have killed myself more times that I can count by unloading with a needler from too close of a range and having that pretty pink explosion take place right in my face, yah, nice move!
Once the Silvers are all taken care of, the remaining covies are easy to mop up using pretty much any weapon you want. You can take out a number at any time that find themselves clustered around the Wraith by taking out the Wraith with a PP, takes about 70 shots but is cool to see explode INSIDE the ship. Any of the shipboard Wraiths can be used that way, kinda cool!
[Edited on 10.31.2009 9:24 AM PDT]