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Subject: Why do marines throw grenades at banshees?
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On aotcr I always hear...

*banshee swoop noise in the wind*
Marine1: Contact!
Marine2: Fire in the hole!
*dink*
*thud!!!*
Marine1 & 2: ARGGGH!!!

This must be the stupidest thing in the entire game... Besides a grunt sticking an elite at least... how could you possibly kill a banshee with a frag?

  • 01.24.2006 3:09 PM PDT
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Good call, I know it all to well... The funnyest thing is when a grunt trys to throw a granade at you and it hits the grunt infrount of it, then that one runs into a big group of covinent and they basicly do the work for u... ha

  • 01.24.2006 5:46 PM PDT
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Dude i was playin the level "Halo" and you know how in da beginning there is a banshee, well i was standin in da middle of the covenant grunts they were all shootin at me and then the banshee came twards me and shot at me and i moved and it killed da grunts. HA HA! then when i played da lvl again i did da same thng but this time i shot the banshee and it exploded and it crashed into a grunt then i threw a plasme grenade on the grunt which then set off his grenades and then all the living grunts were close by and like 4 grunts went flyin and 1 was thrown off the cliff!

  • 01.24.2006 6:35 PM PDT
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On second thoughts... an elite meleeing all of his allies on easy is the stupidest thing! The halo1 melees seem so slow after playing halo2, I don't let enemies melee me though, because even when you jump out of the way you still get hit somehow :(

  • 01.25.2006 12:26 AM PDT
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probably a bad glitch in the game...its like u melee a grunt it jumps out of the way and u miss so its stupid

and i've never seen a marine throw a grenade at a banshee i have a couple of times not knowing it was still on frags

  • 01.25.2006 4:41 AM PDT
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cuz they're dumb asses thats why

  • 01.25.2006 5:22 AM PDT

Marines r stupid. In a narrow corridor, i killed all the covies, then a marine throws a grenade bounces offthe guy inf ront of hm, and killed all 9 of the marines i had. I mean, how much dumber can u get than that?

  • 01.25.2006 5:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: grunts_r_us
On aotcr I always hear...

*banshee swoop noise in the wind*
Marine1: Contact!
Marine2: Fire in the hole!
*dink*
*thud!!!*
Marine1 & 2: ARGGGH!!!

This must be the stupidest thing in the entire game... Besides a grunt sticking an elite at least... how could you possibly kill a banshee with a frag?

Actually you can, supposing they come down close eneugh to the ground and are in an area long eneugh to let the gernade work on them.

  • 01.25.2006 11:19 AM PDT
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Once killed the banshee at start of Halo[I know there is 2, but one was wussing out] with a few frags as a dare. I won the dare.

  • 01.27.2006 1:10 AM PDT
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Why does the second banshee always bugout? I blow one to hell, then the other runs away (even if it wasn't attacking me) and I only get it to start smoking.
Why is it so hard to fulfill my blood lust?

  • 01.27.2006 11:24 AM PDT
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Because its pilot is an elite. and when it comes down to it, they like to hide from danger. whether it be, crates, running off in a banshee, or using grunts as a meat shield. very cowardly...

  • 02.01.2006 1:11 AM PDT
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marines throw frag grenades at banshees cos they're fools! Plasma grenades would be a different matter.......... LOB.........STICK........KA-BOOOOM!

  • 02.02.2006 8:38 AM PDT
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Just because the marines are stupid as hell. On 343 GS after that part once you find the flood and leave the room where you find them and you see more of the later on getting mauled. Well after I killed all the flood I go up to the top part and one marine survived it! He was like "Hey look, it's a mark 5!" Thinking he would follow me I left but he wasn't there so I went back still standing there so I fed him some shotgun shells. I love it when the grunts stick the elites. They seem to do it more on legendary than easy or normal.

  • 02.03.2006 12:22 PM PDT
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One of my Marines survived on that level but he just ran around in circles shouting "I've had enough of this crap!"

  • 02.03.2006 2:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: trainer343
Why does the second banshee always bugout? I blow one to hell, then the other runs away (even if it wasn't attacking me) and I only get it to start smoking.
Why is it so hard to fulfill my blood lust?

I would like to revise this statement. Today I blew them both to hell. Blood lust is still there, though.

  • 02.03.2006 2:48 PM PDT
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How nice..
Now get back to fighting!

  • 02.03.2006 2:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Blackmarch 2
Posted by: grunts_r_us
On aotcr I always hear...

*banshee swoop noise in the wind*
Marine1: Contact!
Marine2: Fire in the hole!
*dink*
*thud!!!*
Marine1 & 2: ARGGGH!!!

This must be the stupidest thing in the entire game... Besides a grunt sticking an elite at least... how could you possibly kill a banshee with a frag?


Actually you can, supposing they come down close eneugh to the ground and are in an area long eneugh to let the gernade work on them.


Oh no, no. I think you're mistaken. Only those Halo PC Banshee pricks get low for the longest time... The Covenant are more about shooting from above... Then, if you're an open target. Crash! Splat.

  • 02.03.2006 9:05 PM PDT
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I'm with you. I can understand a Plasma 'nade, but not a frag. And why, when they are driving the warthogs, why do they try to run over everything in sight. Overall, marines are just idiots.

  • 02.04.2006 12:42 PM PDT
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After all these years, Bob is still his same old stupid self. Poor Bob.

  • 02.05.2006 12:48 PM PDT