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Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
I didn't see jack.
Then you must not of read First Strike.
The Spartan II's were completely overrun in every sense of the word.
3 Spartan II's (Fred/Kelly/Joshua) single handily destroyed a Covenant battleship along with a camp of 10,000 Covenant troops.
Another trio of Spartan II's fought their way through thousands of troops to reach Admiral Whitcomb, and then they had to defend that location for weeks.
As detailed in the Halo: Reach radio messages, 11 Spartan II's took on thousands of Covenant troops in a battle and WON.
And most importantly, a small group of Spartan II's survived in Castle base, despite the thousands of troops coming after them.
EVERYTHING detailed in First Strike trumps what the III's went through.
Fred, Kelly, and Joshua tossed a nuke into a cruiser, whose wreckage destroyed the entire camp. And they simply flew over all the forces in banshees. Not exactly any more interesting then say Jorge pushing a button and destroying the LNOS. The troops in the camp are simply an addition, they weren't the targets anyway. Edit: Not to mention they lost Joshua in the process.
Do we even have ANY confirmation of that? That those three fought thousands to reach Whitcomb? And that they were under constant attack for weeks? Cause if the Covenant knew where Whitcomb was, they'd be dead. IIRC, they said they had been attacking the Covenant for weeks, not the other way around.
IIRC, those Spartans were backed up by marines and army troopers, and got within the enemy front line which gave them an advantage.
Inside a fortified location where they didn't truly do much large scale fighting. And the first time they did two disappeared pretty quickly.
Nothing was on the scale of trumping the S3 missions. You could place 300 Spartan 2's in SPI, and they would get wiped out in the S3 missions just as easily.
[Edited on 01.16.2012 7:30 AM PST]