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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact
Posted by: ExcellentSix
I have my doubts of how effective the Covenant scarab is.
First off, the mining scarab encountered in halo 2 is a different variation all together.
Now about the feats the combat scarab has performed in canon are barley impressive.
In halo 3 Odst, While riding in a Olifant along the metropolitan highway, a Scarab appears and suddenly fires onto it.
Note: the Olifant is the civilian version of the Elephant, and is thus not armored and is used a...garbage truck.
Now the scarab fires onto it,and instead of being turned into a molten husk, or vaporized into individual molecules, we instead just get smoke emanating from it.
Not only does the Scarab fail to even destroy the civilian vehicle, but the occupants of said vehicle were the characters Dare and the highly flammable Vergil. The Oliphant was NOT shielded by Vergil's modifications during the attack.
http://www.halopedian.com/Oliphant#Halo_3:_ODST
And of course in Halo Reach, the Scarab was once featured again, only for one to be destroyed by a pelican, and multiple ones destroyed outright by a Longsword Bombardment in the mission Tip of the Spear.
The muzzle velocity of the Scarab's main gun and anti-aircraft guns are VERY low, so how exactly efficient is the walking platform ?
Sorry if this seems shallow in any sort of way.
-The oliphant had energy shields.
-The longsword bombs are powerful enough to damage covenant alloy as seen in Halo 2.
The muzzle velocity thing can't be trusted,it's gameplay.