Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Let's compare actions.
Noble Team: Discovered Covenant scouting force, denied Zealot strike team valueable data.
Secured Sword Base, driving off a Corvette that was then destroyed.
Scouted, then assault the Covenant landing zone/base camp, revealed Long Night of Solace.
Secured Saber launch site, then secured Anchor Nine, then destroyed Long Night of Solace using slipspace drive and stolen Corvette.
Helped UNSC forces in New Alexandria, permitted at least 3, maybe more packed civilian transports to launch and get off planet.
Rescued Dr Halsey, then got data to Captain Keyes.
Red team: Arrived at the generator bunkers to find the first battle completely over.
Three went to deal with Covenant cruiser/camp, rest split up to perform various details around the generators.
Defended generators against the next wave of Covenant. Got overwhelmed to the point of having to use nuclear warheads to hold the Covenant off.
Was then split between the group at Castle Base, and the group with the admiral.
This is off the top of my head mind you, as I've not read the Fall of Reach in a while nor read any new ones. But overall... I'd say Noble Team did more significant things then Red team. The generator's were actually defended in battle a short while, doubtful it was even close to long enough to "Take out dozens of Covenant ships."
Edit: This doesn't prove one side is better then the other, but it shows during the battle itself, Noble Team did more to help humanities position then Red team.
Not to mention I CANNOT for the life of me bring to account any other time a SPARTAN has taken their victories to space and actually damn near single handedly DESTROYED a Covenant SUPERCARRIER other than Six and Jorge, they're the only two I can think of to have accomplished such a feat.
And First Strike doesn't count because that was Cortana's doing, not Chief's.