Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Gamer Whale
Posted by: HipiO7
The 300 Spartan III's of Beta Comapany engaged thousands of Covenant Troops on open grounds, and were in the process of winning untill Covenant Reinforcements came in. Even then, they were still fighting back pretty hard, and the Covenant had to use capital ship fire to finish them off.
Now imagine the same scenario, with Spartan's that have infinitely more combat experience along with dozens of ODST's in tight quarters. With reinforcements coming in since the external defenses would be shut down by the initial boarding party.
We already saw something similar when the Chief boarded the Truth and Reconciliation with a pretty much a dozen ODST's and some marines, and they wrecked any forces that got in their way.
It would be very possible. Solace was up there by itself, and had no nearby immediate support.Thousands is smaller than tens or hundreds of thousands or millions, and if they go in with the corvette, they would be up against heavy armor and even scarabs.
Scarabs can't go into hallways.
Exactly.
The Covenants heavy armor support and air support would be useless, leaving only a straight up infantry fight. The Covenant can only fill the hallways with so many troops, and since the interior of Covenant ships are long hallways, they would become killing grounds from Spartan and ODST coordinated fire.
EDIT:
Hangars are not sufficiently big enough for a Scarab to be put into and sure as hell not big enough for a Scarab to maneuver in.
And air support would be a mess. Sure, they could fly in the hangar space, but they would be taken down in a matter of seconds by concentrated fire, either that, or they would crash all over the place. It's just not smart. They'd have more of a chance on the ground as infantry than as airsupport inside a ship.
[Edited on 10.15.2011 11:27 AM PDT]