Posted by: grey101
Posted by: ThePredkiller2
meaning NOBLE Team was most likely the single deadliest group of handpicked warriors the UNSC has ever known. It is really infuriating how much people discredit Noble Team, or try to at the very least.
Remember kids, if it wasn't for them, Master Chief wouldn't be alive, and there would be no Reclaimer Trilogy.
Master Chief is more symbolically heroic than actually badass anyway - that goes to Noble Team and Noble Six IMO.
And what has NOBLE team done for you to even make that assertion? What "credit" do they have to show that?
Master chief would have been dead regardless. The PoA shouldn't have even been there in the first place not to mention for that long.
Well, it was - game canon trumps book canon - so I guess FoR was retconned. And in response to the first part of your post, I think this post by Cmdr DaeFaron would suffice.
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]
You are on the wrong side of the fact train bud. The Spartan IIs were treated as high value soldiers whereas the Spartan IIIs were not; how each class was treated has nothing to do with how effective in combat they were. When you consider, even for a moment, than 300 teenagers in subprime armor managed to kill thousands of Covenant troops - including Sangheili - and complete their mission - not once, but twice - that is a true testament to their combat effectiveness.
If those "kids" had MJOLNIR armor and an actual means of exfil, they would not have had 100% casualties.
Couldn't have said it better myself, I admit. Drawing from this what we know and making an educated assumption we can assume Noble Team were exceptional among their active duty peers. Why else would they have been given such high pay grades?
[Edited on 01.16.2012 5:47 PM PST]