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Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
Although I like IIIs for their enforced use of teamwork, it's got to be the IIs.
Agreed. I think the II's are way more deadly... in a soldier for soldier way. Spartan II's had way more combat experience. With the exception of Noble Team, almost no Sp III's made it past their first field missions. They were just sent on suicide missions.
The biggest advantage to the Sp III program was that it had a near 100% augmentation success rate as opposed to the 44% of the Sp II program. This made them way more cost effective, but let's face it... can you really put a price on saving the galaxy?
Well, actually both Alpha and Beta had missions before Operation Prometheus and Torpedo respectively.
Alpha had the Insurrection of Mamore, The Battle of New Constantinople, some Operations in the Bonanza Asteroid Belt and 6 other missions before Prometheurs and even then, they lasted an entire week before being overwhelmed by Covenant forces.
And well, Beta had Operation Cartwheel before being sent to Torpedo.
And concerning the whole augmentations progress, the only reason the Spartan III's had a 100% survival rate was because the drugs had already been tested with the Spartan II's and, the time difference, I mean, 20 years is a lot of time to progress in the medical field.