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Subject: Let's talk about Elites
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Sangheili, also known as the Elites, is a species dedicated to the Covenant. They are brilliant tacticians, they can command small squads to a fleet of thousands, rank is determined on the amount of casualties they inflict, everything about them makes them honourable warriors of the Covenant. However....

There is one thing I can't seem to get my head around. I hear that Elites would rather kill themselves if they were forced to use Human weapons and vehicles. But strangely enough, I see a lot of them driving Warthogs, manning turrets on either Falcons, Warthogs or even a Scorpion tank and jack whatever their four digit fingers can get their hands on. All of this can be seen in Campaign. I don't think the Elites give two -blam!-'s about their code of conduct and go for whatever their interest takes them. The AI in this game is unpredictable. XD

What are your thoughts on this strange phenomenon?

  • 01.20.2012 1:06 AM PDT

I think it's just a canon oversight.

  • 01.20.2012 1:10 AM PDT

~ HC Lone Wolf

Does it really mater?

  • 01.20.2012 1:23 AM PDT

One does not simply trolololol into Mordor.

I honestly prefer the way they act in the games then said in the books, I mean why die when a weapon is right there.

  • 01.20.2012 1:29 AM PDT

rip my pictures from your wall, tear them down and burn them all. light the fire and walk away, theres nothing left to say. take the ashes from the floor. bury them to just make sure, that nothing else is left of me... just bittersweet memories

I think elites are awesome But BOB's are better

  • 01.20.2012 3:07 AM PDT

~ HC Lone Wolf


Posted by: ZzXxKIAxXzZ
I think elites are awesome But BOB's are better


Bobs are elites.

  • 01.20.2012 3:12 AM PDT

The Song Of Nephilim

Xenoblade <3

Elites in halo 2 were the best.

  • 01.20.2012 3:13 AM PDT

Elites are a rippoff of Protoss and Predators.

  • 01.20.2012 4:42 AM PDT

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.

Personally, I've never seen any Elites using human machinery. But then again, I don't really plant he campaign that often.

Anyway, suppose the Elites were simply being polite. They'd use anything to end the human race.

  • 01.20.2012 5:15 AM PDT

Posted by: ShadowLordDaniel
I hear that Elites would rather kill themselves if they were forced to use Human weapons and vehicles.
That comes from a single line in Fall of Reach. And because Elites weren't even introduced at that point, the covenant refusing to use an AR was a Jackal or a Grunt. There's no evidence of Elites refusing to wield human weaponry.

  • 01.20.2012 7:55 AM PDT
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They sure do look silly when they use a turret, human or otherwise.

  • 01.20.2012 8:04 AM PDT

Call me Stu

Lets not.

  • 01.20.2012 8:13 AM PDT

lol i dont think campaign would be too hard if they just committed suicide all the time.

  • 01.20.2012 9:22 AM PDT

rip my pictures from your wall, tear them down and burn them all. light the fire and walk away, theres nothing left to say. take the ashes from the floor. bury them to just make sure, that nothing else is left of me... just bittersweet memories

Ya but BOB's are gold
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Posted by: ZzXxKIAxXzZ
I think elites are awesome But BOB's are better


Bobs are elites.

  • 01.20.2012 11:20 AM PDT

" I will seek vengeance upon those who have betrayed my family, and uncover a conspiracy bigger that I could have imagined. I am Ezio Auditore di Firenze. I am an Assassin"

You have to realize that there might be Mercenary Elites. Elites that have have no problem with using human weapons.

You could also figure that it's just a game. That if AI didn't use human weapons/vehicles Legendary would't be as hard.

  • 01.20.2012 11:22 AM PDT

Tin shacks and catfish bones.

If they didn't use human weapons then you'd be here crying about how stupid the AI is.

  • 01.20.2012 11:25 AM PDT
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RIP Bungie Service Records. You shall be missed.

Elites: They're epic.

*coughlookatmyGTcough*

  • 01.20.2012 11:26 AM PDT
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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!


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Does it really mater?
Of course it matters.

  • 01.20.2012 11:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: ShadowLordDaniel
I hear that Elites would rather kill themselves if they were forced to use Human weapons and vehicles.
That comes from a single line in Fall of Reach. And because Elites weren't even introduced at that point, the covenant refusing to use an AR was a Jackal or a Grunt. There's no evidence of Elites refusing to wield human weaponry.

  • 01.20.2012 11:35 AM PDT
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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!


Posted by: Ghostie117
Elites are a rippoff of Protoss and Predators.
No one gives 2 -blam!-s.

  • 01.20.2012 11:36 AM PDT

rip my pictures from your wall, tear them down and burn them all. light the fire and walk away, theres nothing left to say. take the ashes from the floor. bury them to just make sure, that nothing else is left of me... just bittersweet memories

The elites on firefight/arcade fight use weaponry from rockets, to swords so ya... its the brutes, grunts, and jackals that don,t use human weaponry.

  • 01.20.2012 11:37 AM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps their urge to defeat humanity is ultimately more important

Also doesnt make sense how the arbiter can get away with using human weapons in Halo 2 and his allies will accept human weapons he gives to them.

  • 01.20.2012 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: ZzXxKIAxXzZ
The elites on firefight/arcade fight use weaponry from rockets, to swords so ya... its the brutes, grunts, and jackals that don,t use human weaponry.


That is because those are "Heretic Elites". It is just a FF option and isn't cannon. Please read the posts above yours, the question in the OP was answered already.

Also, in Halo 2 the Brutes used the human shotgun.


It is only the Jackals and maybe the Drones that don't use human weapons. Grunts get on human turrets but that's it.

  • 01.20.2012 11:56 AM PDT

Que Custodiet Ipsos Custodes

--Tea-baggers are funny, it's as if they think they are far more hetero than the people who do it in real life, because they use their e-ballsacks to do it. What a manly victory dance.
~ManBearPig_06~

Hooves. That is all.

[Edited on 01.20.2012 1:03 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2012 1:02 PM PDT

rip my pictures from your wall, tear them down and burn them all. light the fire and walk away, theres nothing left to say. take the ashes from the floor. bury them to just make sure, that nothing else is left of me... just bittersweet memories

Funny becuase on reach i see so many elites using human weaponry.

  • 01.20.2012 3:55 PM PDT

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