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Posted by: Wilis_kid
Okay, here goes...
Halo 1/PC: Marines couldn't melee at all
Halo 2: Marines could melee and it actually did decent damage
Halo 3/ODST: Marines melee does no damage at all, only enough to pop an infection form
Halo Reach: Same as 3/ODST, i've yet to see any form of melee do any damage at all.
Hopefully i understood right. But in actually Halo fiction, the Elites are equivalent to Spartans, if not superior. And Master Chief dominated 3 ODST's as a teenager so i highly doubt they'd be able to fend them off properly at all in hand to hand combat. As for Brutes...they're even tougher so lets not even go there...
With a combat knife, even then this is highly unlikely as the Elites are quicker and could probably stop the threat quickly.The odd thing is, when they are half infected in Halo 3, their melee is powerful enough to flip a Mongoose with a Spartan in the driver's seat...
As for H2 marines meleeing, I thought those were just ODSTs.
Posted by: jmeulinkpr0
i agree, elites are more evolved for combat. But i wonder why the brutes have the same speed as elites, they should be faster, because the brutes dont have a combat harness.
It must be their laziness because Brute Chieftains can run very fast, as well as berserking Brutes (armored or unarmored) while Brute minors don't have much armor yet still run slowly. Both Chieftains and minors have similar armor (they aren't bulky like the higher ranking ones) so it couldn't be because of their power armor.
So yeah, the Covies lost the war because the Brutes weren't that dedicated.
[Edited on 09.16.2011 11:55 PM PDT]