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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Posted by: Jonzx5
Posted by: grave_mind21
The Spartans III's were just disposable. replaceable soliders.
They were tough but when faced with the numbers as with Operation Prometheus, Or Operation Torpedo. Spartans III's are just little more than marines. wont take much damage.
But a Spartan II would make a Spartan III into pulp.
Really? Incase you did not notice, during Prometheus, 300 Spartan-III's took on Thousands of Covenant, including covenant air support, and two or more Spartan-III's survived. You clearly don't know that Spartan-II's and III's have the same core augmentations. Spartan-II's are still stronger, faster, and better trained, but calling Spartan-III's marines?
During Prometheus, 12 year old Spartan-III's in SPI Armor were described to be able to move with "speed and agility that no covenant could track". 300 12 year old Spartan-III's charged thousands of Covenant with captured energy swords from killing so many high ranking Elites....Spartan-III's are NOTHING like marines...Just because they can't take as much damaged as Spartan's with MJOLNIR Armor can does not make them like Marines. They have the strength to rip a Marine in half, and the reflexes to dodge bullets...
Single Spartans have taken out thousands of Covenant troops, made armadas disappear, destroyed carries and other large vessels, etc. Beta Team on Reach composed of 12 S-IIs fought back 2 Covenant armor divisions and thousands more troops so much so that 3 Carriers had to be brought in to destroy the ODGs.
They don't have the same augmentations. They have slightly lesser.
Take this into account: The IIIs weren't wearing armor that weighed 1000 lbs. The S-IIs were, and moved at a comparable speed(Kelly having reached up to 38 mph I believe). When the S-IIs completed augmentation the marine training partners needed exoskeleton power armor just to keep up with the unarmored 12 year olds, and even then they got smoked.
Dude, The 1000 pound armor is an advantage.......MJOLNIR Increases the users strength, speed, and reflexes, which is why Spartan-II's in MJOLNIR are significantly stronger, and faster than Spartan-III's in SPI Armor.
Spartan-II's and III's do have the same augmentations, besides the one that makes all Spartan-II's 7 feet tall. II's are however, are still stronger and faster even without the armor. They have spent alot more time in their Spartan bodies, and the longer a Spartan spends in his/her augmented body, the better he/she becomes.
Spartan-II's are definately better (Although Spartan-III's have the POTENTIAL to be as good, I dont think any of them reached their full potential), but my point is, a little kid inexperienced Spartan-III in crappy SPI Armor can rip out a Jackals arms, beat an experienced sword wielding Spec-Ops Elite in hand to hand combat, dodge a plasma bolt from close range, and move with "Speed and agility that no Covenant could track". Not even close to being "marines"...
[Edited on 10.02.2010 9:17 AM PDT]