- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: AnubissWarior
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
It would take one.
Ironically, if tere were 4 Knights and only one Spartan, the Spartan would have a better chance. Space Marines fall hilariously fast to enemies using stealth if the books are anu indication, and do so quicker when they are of reasonable numbers (due to pridem probably). It took a squad of human regulars only to be equipped with active camo to send six or seven Space Marines to their doom. Imagine what a Spartan can do under the same circumstances.
And it's not like this only happened once. Nearly every time I see a Space Marine die, it's because the enemy was stealthy. The Invisibles, the Megarachnid ambushes, almost everything that happened in the Ultramarines movie, that Ultramarine who got snuck up on by Nemeroth and impaled (and do note my knowledge of WH40K extends to only a not-quite-so finished book, a game, and the animated movie). I swear SMs have terrible situational awareness; a Spartan's motion tracker goes a long way.
Spartans are more versatile then Space Marines it would seem, and like a motion tracker, versatility when you had been trained exensively to do the exact thing that nearly always finds a Space Marine dead on the floor goes a long way. The Spartans simply represent everything that gets a Space Marine killed; going off of that, it wouldn't be all to surprising to hear John could take out a particuarly sizable chunk of them before dying.
However, I would imagine if there were only one SM, then he'd be a little more conservative, more cautious. If not, well, then the Astartes aren't all that they're cracked up to be, then, are they?
Yeah i agree with you on that one.
But we are talking about grey knight's, they are far more stronger than spacemarines(well they hawe more Experiance).
And i was thinking rather about head on.
But yeah, on stealth they fail.
Well like I said I don't know enough about WH40K to know anything specific, like the Grey Knights martial prowess. A head on head fight would boil down to things like range, and weaponry involved. A UNSC turret (at least the ones from Reach) uses explosive ammunition for bullets, like miniature Bolter rounds. And from what I've seen, a direct rocket impact (or even a glancing blow) could kill a Space Marine. I'm pretty sure an M99 Stanchion Gauss, or Spartan Laser could kill one just as well. If John had more traditional UNSC weapons, he could only hope to aim for the unarmored joints.
Plasma or energy weapons are another matter however; Covenant plasma weaponry is much more powerful then the games depict, even rivaling some of the Imperium's. Things like a plasma rifle on full auto or a FRG could also kill a Space Marine.
So really it depends on weaponry, but I imagine John could hold out for a few minutes if the full Halo arsenal was taken into account (do note I'm imagining that this takes place in a Gladiator arena, with little to no cover).