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It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
Posted by: chickenlittle
Cheeto is the only one among you that doesn't suck.
No. It wouldn't, because the situation is different. If the Covenant had simply landed an army and took their fleet away, would the UNSC Army-Marines be able to defeat them? The answer is yes. The Covenant have never been truly great strategists, using their vast numbers to simply overwhelm the humans. The books clearly show that, on the ground, the UNSC can hold their own, but then the Covenant pull their forces out and glass from orbit, where the UNSC can't even put up a good fight.
To be fair, the Covenant don't really fight to hold the planet, though, just to keep the UNSC at bay until they find whatever artifact they were looking for. So, even though the books say that the UNSC is highly competent on the ground, if the Covenant had a different objective, things may have been different on the ground...
Posted by: grey101
It wouldn't matter because the result would still be the same.