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CoD is a good game, even if the Halo series are better in some aspects. Anyone who insults either is just bad in that game. Grow up.
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Beowolfe
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Yep, cause that is a tactically smart decision.
"Hey, we have a Covenant camp on the planet, how are we going to deal with it."
'We should mobilize our forces, we can win a ground engagement. Swarm them with numbers on our side.'
Nah, that's a stupid idea, let's nuke it!
'Um, Nuke it and cause damage to the very planet we are trying to save? smart...'
"I say we should nuke it, damned be the civilian and other items in the area, let's nuke it and cause severe damage to the ecosystem of Reach!"
(That is how you say it should have happened?)
Your proposition seems pretty stupid too. "Lets swarm them yaaaay." They didn't need a nuke, but long range artillery could have been used instead.
Seeing as the UNSC typically won ground battles, but lost Space ones, swarming is much smarter then nuking their own planet and making the area useless.
Tactical nukes don't make that big of a bang, and seeing how the location is practically in the middle of nowhere, even if they did choose to do it, it probably wouldn't be the end of the world.
But of course, I doubt a nuke is needed, in fact even the MAC was overkill. As I said, long range artillery or even just a fair amount planted charges probably would have been enough.
And no, no commander in the right mind would ever use "swarm them with our numbers" as a primary tactic in modern/future ground engagements. They'd send forces, but not throw them in like toy soldiers.
@guy above: Noble Team was sent in to disable the shields anyways, at which point if they needed to use the tac nuke, they could, but so would it open the spire up to other means.
[Edited on 02.10.2011 9:24 PM PST]