Posted by: SHAOLINMONKEY 93
It truly depends, it seems that so many people on this thread are giving all marines a set skill level. I am sure that marines like Sgt.Johnson and ODST like Eddie Buck would have more then enough skill to be able to take out an elite Ultra on their own.I'm rather inclined to agree. There are too few controlled variables to make for any decisive outcome, and the warriors' varying skill levels are extreme wildcards here. Logically, most people would apply average skill levels across the board, but even that's a pain to determine.
Since, like people have said, there's no magical stats like in an RPG game that determine overall performance in the actual canon, the closest thing that I can think of to determine average combat capability would be their performance in the games against AI enemies. Of course, that directly disobeys the first statement, but bear with me here. Heroic is said to be the canon difficulty, with regards to the combat effectiveness of your allies, enemies, and the overall difficulty of what you face of course, not with regards to gameplay mechanics. If, after storming the beach and entering the compound on LNoS, you go back to the beach, you can see a small squad of army troopers duking it out against wave after wave of Covenant reinforcements. Out of curiosity, I watched them go at it for a while, and it seems that on heroic, an army trooper is either equal to, or falls slight short of an elite Minor. That being said, I highly doubt that this is an accurate method of determining average combat skill.