- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Wolf of Liberty
In reality the MA5B Assault Rifle would be much more effective then the SMG. First off, it would probably be a bit more accurate then in Halo (I'm certain they overdid the recoil in Halo or else the Assault Rifle would, "pwn"), and the AR has a higher caliber round then the SMG. I'm not even sure if you could manufacture an SMG in real life...the characteristics of it are bogus. A modern day MP5 would be more effective, even though you would have only half of the clip size, the much greater accuracy would be worth the trade off. Actually, isn't the SMG like 5-something mm? A MP5 is 9mm, so it would also pack a bit more punch then SMG too. In conclusion, the AR is the superior weapon.
Got this from the instruction manuals.
Assault Rifle: This rifle is gas-operated and magazine-fed. It fires 7.62mm armor-piercing rounds.
SMG: "Bullet hose" fires sustained burst of 5mm fire from 60-round magazine. Tends to "walk" upwards as compounding momentum from recoil takes hold.
There are a few problems with the SMG, it's rounds are too small to be an effective weapon in real life, it would be like shooting a .22 machine gun, it wouldn't do anything to someone with armor on and there isn't going to be recoil, especially if a Spartan is using it, I don't see why they didn't just make a dual-wieldable AR, one that used the same rounds as the Halo AR because then that would make sense, and they should have included the First Strike magnum in Halo 2, that thing would own.
[Edited on 8/17/2005]