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Posted by: RotaryCookie
Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: Pipboy 3050
with hundreds of spartan II's on the ground, it is a no-brainer.
>Hundreds
>Spartan II's
wat.
And no, the USNC couldn't have held their ground, atleast I don't think so. If the 700 Covenant ships at Reach had deployed all of their troops, the UNSC would've still been overwhelmed.
Lets be genourous to the Covenant. Lets give them 700 ships capable of landing troops.
5 x Super Carrier @ 100,000 each
100 X Assault Carrier @ 25,000 each
95 X Destroyer @ 15,000 each
500 X Cruiser @ 10,000 each
Given their specific roles, estimated numbers, deployments within a fleet, a generous cryo space on board, and assuming the 700 number doesn't include any support ships, we still only get 9,425,000 troops. Not nearly enough to overwhelm a planet, especially a highly defendable position like Reach.
That's barely enough to overwhelm Europe even. :P
I doubt a Super Carrier can carry that few troopers, although I now picture Super Carriers at the Long Night Of Solace scale, those would probably hold several hundred thousand troops.
Still it's way too few compared to Reach's 385,421,100 Military personnel.